The 5th Annual Conference of the Mexico Association for Protected Horticulture (AMHPAC) Presidente Intercontinental Hotel, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, August 22-24, 2012, was attended by over 440 participants — growers, exporters, US shippers, US brokers and industry services providers — who support and work in the trade of produce from Mexico to the United States and beyond. Recounting the history of AMHPAC, the association’s inception dated back to October 1999, where a focused group of 16 greenhouse producers of different states of the country had come together to establish an association that represented them in the search for common goals and that could enable the growth of this developing industry. …