Grapes, apples, pears, and peaches are important exports for Argentina and Chile, whereas Brazil has been increasing its exports of cantaloupes and honeydew melons to Europe and North America.
The melons sold as "cantaloupes" in the United States are often the netted types of this group.
Carotene, a chemical common to fruit, is easily converted in the body to vitamin A; cantaloupes, peaches, and apricots are significant sources of this nutrient.
Farming (especially cotton, cantaloupes, and vegetables), cattle ranching, oil and gas production, and tourism are now major economic factors; the annual Cantaloupe Festival celebrates the region's agriculture.
Cantalupensis group, the true cantaloupes, which are characterized by a rough warty rind and sweet orange flesh.
Weighing about eight pounds, the premium cantaloupes were part of the season's initial harvest at Sapporo Central Wholesale Market.
The lag hasn't gone away — a man once described Abramson, in slightly sexist terms, as having "balls like cast-iron cantaloupes" — but it has shrunk a bit with her appointment.
Indeed, at the Jensen Farms plant, where the contaminated cantaloupes originated, a mechanized system had been washing the melons with tap water, rather than the antimicrobial solution recommended by the F.D.A.
Last week, Steve King, the Republican Iowa congressman — earlier pilloried for claiming most undocumented immigrants were drug mules (whose calves, he memorably declared, were sized like cantaloupes) — sent out a fundraising e-mail proclaiming himself "the last one standing" against the intolerant liberal jihad that had driven fellow truthsayers like Allan West and Michele Bachmann from Congress.
They weren't all brought in by their parents": For everyone who's a valedictorian, there's another hundred out there who weigh a hundred and thirty pounds — and they've got calves the size of cantaloupes because they're hauling seventy-five pounds of marijuana across the desert.
Other commercial crops that have come to rely on honeybees include blueberries, cranberries, cherries, cucumbers, watermelons, cantaloupes, and pumpkins.
