User talk:Ap Jones

I want to comment on the "tomatoes" article. The article should cover 'processing tomatoes.'

I work in the California processing tomato industry. We are expecting 457,000 truckloads of tomatoes this season estimated at 12.35 million tons equal to about 95% of the US market. Yet wikipedia does not even have a tiny dot for California in its production market. In general consumers and gardeners think of tomatoes as home-grown garden tomatoes. But when they buy salsa, pizza, spaghetti sauce or tomato paste, they are buying processed tomatoes. The processed tomato market is not even a piece of your article.

It might help by being clearer about the difference between 'processing tomatoes' and 'market tomatoes.'

Market tomatoes are generally exported from countries with different growing seasons than the importing country. For example, ripe tomatoes from Chile in January come to the US market during the winter. Fresh market tomatoes from Mexico, Florida and California each have a window into a specific fresh market. When local tomatoes are ripe, it is less likely that fresh tomatoes from abroad will flood that market.

Processed tomatoes are often shipped as bulk concentrate to be remanufactured into soups and sauces for use in local markets. This is certainly part of the topic, "tomatoes."

Ap Jones 21:06, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

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