Canneries are expected to offer processing tomato growers higher prices to encourage more plantings, and Deputy Ag Secretary Jewel Bronagh announces she will step down.
Canneries are expected to offer processing tomato growers higher contract prices this year to encourage increased plantings, but the two sides have yet to agree on a final price.
Americans are paying nearly 40 percent more for tomatoes, lettuce and other vegetables due to ongoing inflation and farming states like Arizona and California being plagued by drought.
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