Posted on 08/19/2022 1:40:29 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
California tomato farmers are now struggling with a water scarcity brought about by the worst drought in 1,200 years. This dilemma that affects the production of processing tomatoes, the variety that gets canned and used in commercial kitchens to make some of the most popular foods, could possibly cause the imminent soaring of tomato-based sauce prices in the market.
“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 do not have inventory left to keep fulfilling the market demand.”
This United States region is responsible for a quarter of the world’s output of tomatoes. However, with “climate-change” forecasts calling for hotter and drier conditions, the outlook for farmers is uncertain.
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There’s always Alfredo.
My cherry tomatoes have produced this year to the point where I am tired of them; the rest haven’t done too well. We have had plenty of rain. Making a BLT with cherry tomatoes is tedious.
Just about every grocery store in California has tomato’s from Mexico note sticker one even hard presses to find oranges from
California most are from Mexico or south America.
Sounds like someone is cashing in on the gouge.
How do they know that?
Sauce or gravey ?
It’s not possibly true.
The government just cancelled a water desalination plant in southern California. That’s not the action one takes if there was a serious drought going on.
The drought in the southwest is only because way too many people live there then the climate can support. And the Democrats solution to this is to continue importing more and more illegals into the area.
Alright folks, let’s see if we can post some favorite spaghetti sauce recipes so we don’t go broke buying store bought sauces. I don’t have one so I’m depending on y’all.
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