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Spaghetti Sauce Is Under Threat as Water Crisis Slams Tomatoes

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... “We desperately need rain,” Mike Montna, head of the California Tomato Growers Association, said in an interview.  “We are getting to a point where we don’t have inventory left to keep fulfilling the market demand.” ...

 

... “It’s real tough to grow a tomato crop right now,” Montna said. “On one side you have the drought impacting costs because you don’t have enough water to grow all your acres, and then you have the farm inflation side of it with fuel and fertilizer costs shooting up.” 

 

California restrictions limiting groundwater use and soaring costs for labor, fuel and fertilizer have caused headaches for producers such as Woolf Farming. It costs the Fresno County-based grower and processor around $4,800 an acre to grow and harvest a tomato crop these days compared with $2,800 a decade ago, according to Rick Blankenship, vice president of farming operations. Most of the increases have been in the last two years. This season’s bounty costs more and delivers less.

 

“Yields are way off this year,” Blankenship said in an interview. “Coupled with drought, we’ve had high temperatures and that in itself creates an issue where the tomatoes are so hot that they just don’t size properly — so you have a lot of tomatoes on a plant, but they are smaller.” ...

 

 

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Based upon last years harvest.

 

Wait a minute. A potato shortage? In Idaho? Here’s why.

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... So, what's the problem? The weather. Not this year’s weather, mind you. It’s the weather from over a year ago that’s to blame.

 

“I'm not sure if you remember last June, but we had some just unbelievably hot temperatures here in Idaho. It did a number on our potato crop,” said Jamey Higham, president and CEO of the Idaho Potato Commission. “And so, our yields were significantly down last year.”

 

Now, keep that in mind when you learn that a previous year's potato crop cycle is supposed to last through the following August. And before the 2022 harvest comes into the pipeline (it’s just now beginning), consumers are facing the shortage from last year's crop.

 

”There is not a gap. There are just less potatoes being shipped right now than there normally are this time of year because of the shorter supply that we started the season with,” said Higham. ...

 

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14 hours ago, Koko said:

 

Yeah, but consider how 'global warming' is supposedly raising sea level. So it all evens out.

maybe somew of those trillions spent by Congressx could go to build desalination plants to take advantage

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On 8/17/2022 at 7:48 PM, Koko said:

 

Yeah, but consider how 'global warming' is supposedly raising sea level. So it all evens out.

 

Global Warming giveth and Global Warming taketh away

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