Posted by: McQ on Thursday, July 10, 2008 Tomato sales are off 30 to 40% due to the recent salmonella outbreak, however the FDA now thinks it may be hot peppers which are to blame. The outbreak has caused some tomato growers to plow under their crop and plant something else. The market is now only at the breakeven point for tomato growers who've hung on. Of course some growers, understandably, aren't real happy with the FDA: "They can't find what's causing it (the outbreak) and they don't want to admit they've made a mistake," he says. "But this is destroying us."I predict a tomato shortage and higher prices. I assume then that some politician is going to jump in and lament the price increase. We'll import tomatoes to pick up the slack. Some other pol is going to criticize our dependence on foreign tomatoes. And a third pol will demand we grow here first and perhaps subsidize our tomato growers and even give them a tax break. So buck up tomato growers - this is just the beginning of the normal cycle. If you can get a politician interested, you can make out like bandits - no pun intended. |
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