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Tomato season looking good in California
United States
Monday 02 July 2007
The Produce News reports ideal planting and growing conditions for the fresh-market tomato in California and much of Baja California in 2007 and so there are favourable prospects for improvement on last year. The 2006 season was marked by weather extremes which had a negative effect on tomato quality and production.
The season in California and Baja California has got off to a better start than in 2006, when the tomato crop suffered the effects of a cool and wet spring and early summer, followed by an excessively hot late summer. Growers and marketers are fully aware of what Mother Nature can do, for there is of course no guarantee that this summer will not bring another extreme heatwave which would reduce the volume of the crop.
The season in California and Baja California has got off to a better start than in 2006, when the tomato crop suffered the effects of a cool and wet spring and early summer, followed by an excessively hot late summer. Growers and marketers are fully aware of what Mother Nature can do, for there is of course no guarantee that this summer will not bring another extreme heatwave which would reduce the volume of the crop.
