CR Farm is set apart by five things a commodity supplier cannot offer: full chain of custody, a single accountable company, lot-coded traceability, planting against committed orders, and the metric that matters most to a buyer — contracts honoured in full. For twenty-six years.
Farm, washing line, packing and export are all CR Farm — same farm, same plant, same payroll. No subcontracted grower, no spot-market broker, no trading house between the soil and your purchase order. The bill of lading carries a single cédula jurídica: 3-101-669016.
Vs. traders & pool exportersCR Farm is a direct grower-exporter. You deal with the company that grows, packs and ships — not a broker or a sales desk reselling someone else's produce. Commercial questions are answered directly by our team, with no regional-office escalation.
Vs. call-centre escalationEvery box that leaves the line carries a lot code tied to a specific harvest week, field and crew. If a customer in Rotterdam flags a calibre issue, we know which row it came from before lunch.
Vs. "sourced from CR" boxesOur cycle calendar is built backwards from our buyers' calendars. We plant against committed volumes, not against forecasts. The result: no panic markdowns, no surplus released to traders, and no shortages during peak season.
Vs. plant-and-pray exportersThe calibre we quote is the calibre that ships; the date we confirm is the date it leaves. We never substitute SKUs without notice, and we hold supply through peak season. Delivering exactly what was agreed is the metric that matters most to a buyer.
Vs. "market moved, sorry""Family-owned" is easy to put on a slide. What matters are the operational consequences. Here is what the five reasons translate to when a real container is moving through a real week in San Carlos.
After three exporters in five years, we just wanted a family that still answers the phone — and a malanga that arrives in the same calibre, every Friday.
— Buyer feedback · European wholesaler, 2024 (verbatim, with permission)Not aspirations or mission statements — four operational commitments written into every quote we send.
Send Ailyn your destination, volume and packing spec. You'll receive a written proposal — Incoterms, lead times, lot traceability — directly from CR Farm, with no intermediaries. Twenty-four-hour response, including peak weekends.
She replies within 24 business hours, including peak weekends. Every enquiry is logged in our CRM, so nothing is lost if she's offline.
