National Ag News

Tomato plants like hot and drier conditions and this year’s wet weather has the tomato crop lagging in the Eastern Corn Belt.

Steve Smith, director of agriculture for Indiana-based Red Gold tomatoes, says like the state’s corn and soybean fields, the condition within tomato fields are variable.  “There’s no one single answer for how the tomato crop is looking because you can drive two miles and you can find where a weather pattern has been not so beneficial,” he says. 

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