Re: Nebraska tomato farm

Posted by Hugh MacKay on February 21, 2006 at 17:32:17 from (64.228.11.124):

In Reply to: Re: Nebraska tomato farm posted by Nebraska Cowman on February 21, 2006 at 14:58:04:

Cowman: Have to agree with you, I was down in Leamington last summer. (once known as the field tomato capital of Canada, longer season than NE.) (now the hydroponic tomato capital of Canada.) My garden tomatoes weren't yet ready that day. I asked where I could get some field ripened tomatoes. The guy told me, "you can't, there is no money in them, can't even begin to compete with hydroponic." I came away with no tomatoes, I would have paid more for vine ripened field tomatoes. The guy told me I was not a very large percentage of the population, and they wouldn't be growing any hoping I'd come back next year.

This guy did grow field tomatoes for the processing industry, they were bred and fed to ripen all the same day and harvested with machines, right into bulk trucks which dumped tham at the plant. I also see about a dozen auctions down there this spring, all farm dispersal sales and most having field tomato equipment. Not a good sign for anyone thinking of growing tomatoes.

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