Download or read book Status of the Florida Tomato Industry written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Risk Management and Specialty Crops and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Status of the Florida Tomato Industry written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Risk Management and Specialty Crops and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Annual Report of the Florida Tomato Committee written by Florida Tomato Committee and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Tomatoland written by Barry Estabrook and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2012 IACP Award Winner in the Food Matters category Supermarket produce sections bulging with a year-round supply of perfectly round, bright red-orange tomatoes have become all but a national birthright. But in Tomatoland, which is based on his James Beard Award-winning article, "The Price of Tomatoes," investigative food journalist Barry Estabrook reveals the huge human and environmental cost of the $5 billion fresh tomato industry. Fields are sprayed with more than one hundred different herbicides and pesticides. Tomatoes are picked hard and green and artificially gassed until their skins acquire a marketable hue. Modern plant breeding has tripled yields, but has also produced fruits with dramatically reduced amounts of calcium, vitamin A, and vitamin C, and tomatoes that have fourteen times more sodium than the tomatoes our parents enjoyed. The relentless drive for low costs has fostered a thriving modern-day slave trade in the United States. How have we come to this point? Estabrook traces the supermarket tomato from its birthplace in the deserts of Peru to the impoverished town of Immokalee, Florida, a.k.a. the tomato capital of the United States. He visits the laboratories of seedsmen trying to develop varieties that can withstand the rigors of agribusiness and still taste like a garden tomato, and then moves on to commercial growers who operate on tens of thousands of acres, and eventually to a hillside field in Pennsylvania, where he meets an obsessed farmer who produces delectable tomatoes for the nation's top restaurants. Throughout Tomatoland, Estabrook presents a who's who cast of characters in the tomato industry: the avuncular octogenarian whose conglomerate grows one out of every eight tomatoes eaten in the United States; the ex-Marine who heads the group that dictates the size, color, and shape of every tomato shipped out of Florida; the U.S. attorney who has doggedly prosecuted human traffickers for the past decade; and the Guatemalan peasant who came north to earn money for his parents' medical bills and found himself enslaved for two years. Tomatoland reads like a suspenseful whodunit as well as an expose of today's agribusiness systems and the price we pay as a society when we take taste and thought out of our food purchases.

Download or read book Status of the Florida Tomato Industry written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Risk Management and Specialty Crops and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Winter Fresh Tomato Industry written by John R. Brooker and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Greenhouse Tomatoes Change the Dynamics of the North American Fresh Tomato Industry written by Roberta L. Cook and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the greenhouse tomatoes industry and its effects on the fresh tomatoes industry in North America.

Download or read book Addressing Production and Marketing Challenges of the Florida Tomato Industry written by Xiang Cao and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The technological shock from the methyl bromide phase-out and the intense competition from Mexico have posed serious threats and challenges to the Florida tomato industry in both production and marketing. This research contains two main parts. The first part focuses on identifying an optimal fumigation strategy through analyzing the cost effectiveness and risk efficiency of methyl bromide treatment and its alternatives. Partial budgeting and stochastic dominance analyses are performed based on the data acquired from scientific field trials. The second part provides the struggling US tomato industry with marketing information to understand consumer demand and willingness to pay for local (Florida/US) tomatoes versus non-local (Mexico) tomatoes. In addition, the effect of three market strategies on consumer preferences for Florida/US versus Mexico tomatoes is also studied. A mall intercept survey using the contingent valuation method to interview 632 participants was conducted to determine US consumer perception about country of origin labeling, consumption pattern, demand, and willingness to pay for Florida/US and Mexico tomatoes. This thesis research provides recommendations to help the industry address challenges from both production and marketing perspectives.

Download or read book Requirements for Imported Tomatoes written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry. Subcommittee on Agricultural Production, Marketing, and Stabilization of Prices and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Tomato Ties n Growers written by Kathryn V. Kermode and published by . This book was released on 1995-03 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Pepper Production in Florida written by G. Norman Rose and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Imported Tomato Restrictions written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Domestic Marketing, Consumer Relations, and Nutrition and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Small Business Problems in the Tomato Industry written by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book How Fresh Tomatoes are Marketed written by James V. Fahey and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Building a Better Tomato written by Jeff Klinkenberg and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2015-03-16 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the search for a superior alternative to bland and mealy grocery-store tomatoes, horticultural scientist Harry Klee and renowned taste researcher Linda Bartoshuk teamed up and are hot on the trail of a specimen that will have you thinking you just picked it in your own back yard. Gatorbytes highlight for the intellectually curious the world of innovative research happening at the University of Florida. Written by professional journalists, Gatorbytes feature the top research and preeminence work being conducted at the University of Florida, written in a way that’s easy to understand.

Download or read book Industry Perceptions About the Marketing Agreement Program For Florida Tomatoes written by University of Florida. Agricultural Experiment Station and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book New Plants for Florida written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fresh market tomato is grown in Florida from October through June. The 50,000 acres under tomato production in Florida generate a farm gate value of over $500 million per year. The program at FAES has provided improvements that have allowed tomato to be grown successfully in Florida and has had a significant impact on production worldwide. Tomatoes are a good source of minerals, vitamins C and A, and carotenoids, such as lycopene, that are beneficial as cancer-preventing antioxidants.