Prices for Tomato Based Products Face New Surge

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California grows more than 90 percent of American’s canned tomatoes and a third of the world’s. Ongoing drought in the state has hurt the planting and harvesting of many summer crops. Water-hungry “processing tomatoes” are of particular concern and one that experts say will spur prices to surge far more than they already have. Read what’s happening here.

Author: Washington Post