[lbsnake7]

If it does go to South America, USA might be screwed. America imports all of it's bananas, Chile mostly. Hawaii makes a negligible amount that I think never even leaves Hawaii.

Side note, I've been interested in fruits, and the fruit trade so I've been trying to find out more information about how it all works. It is hard. Pretty much any hard data that comes out is from the USDA, no private entity does any sort of research or tracking of the movement of fruits. Farmers either don't care about that sort of stuff to do it on their own, or aren't technologically advanced enough to try and do it themselves.

[nickhalfasleep]

"Pacific Fruit Express" and "The Great Yellow Fleet" are great books on the railroad technology development to provide produce West-to-East. The fast-trading of ripening fruits were redirected several times on their trip east via telegraph commands.