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Tomatoes grown in the Chinese region have been banned in the U.S. since January 2021 due to concerns they may have been produced with Uyghur forced labor.

Farmers worry harvest backlog may affect tomato crop

Growers are getting it done despite a large volume of "processing tomatoes" coming in all at once

Farmers across much of the American West are living through the second historic drought in a decade. The snowmelt never came this year, depleting reservoirs and forcing farmers back to their own wells and groundwater. Protecting California’s capacity to grow food has long been a top priority of American Farmland Trust. AFT opened its first field office in California, where it protects farmland, helps keep farmers on the land, and encourages environmentally sound farming practices.

Farmer's in the largest tomato-producing area in the U.S. are sounding the alarm about possibly shortages. They asid things like ketchup, salsa and pasta sauce could be in short supply.

Tomatoes are getting squeezed.

Tomatoes are getting squeezed. California leads the world in production of processing tomatoes the variety that gets canned and used in commercial...

Tomato paste, ketchup prices surge as drought shrinks California crop.

This year’s California tomato forecast is growing smaller. The USDA predicted tomato farmers would produce 12.2 million tons, but that estimate has been revised downward, to 11.7 million tons.

Lack of water means smaller tomato crop