More tomato acreage keeps pricing at a standstill in North America

Fresh Tomato

United States

Published Jun 30, 2022

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Tomato supplies in North America are shifting right now to include many of the local deals seen at this time of year around the country. Roger Riehm of Bradenton, Florida-based Blue Creek Produce LLC. says now that Florida’s season is wrapped up, states such as Arkansas, Tennessee, and South Carolina have started local production, Alabama is about a week away, and New Jersey and Michigan will too soon after the July 4th weekend. All of these are largely open-field local production.

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“And there’s also California production trickling in through Baja California into San Diego. And as you go up the coast, the California deal also coincides with the midsection of the U.S. They’ve been picking and packing already,” says Riehm. Mexico producing too At the same time, Mexico is still growing Roma, round, grape, and cherry tomatoes, and its greenhouse tomato production goes virtually year-round. “There are more greenhouses in the U.S.--even the midwest in Tennessee and Kentucky, but also Ohio. The U.S. has gained a lot of greenhouse production of tomatoes,” says Riehm. And then there are Canadian greenhouse tomatoes as well, which he says seem to last longer and longer into the season each year. Overall, there are a lot of tomatoes. “I think that there’s more and more expansion of farms. There definitely continues to be added acreage,” he says. There is also a lot of development around the types of tomatoes. “They continue to develop new seeds for better flavor ...

Source: Hortidaily