Export market for Tomato Puree in United States (12월, 2022)

The article summarizes a presentation by Mark De La Mater from the 2022 Tomato News Conference, focusing on the 2022 processing tomato season in California and its implications for the 2023 and 2024 crop years. The presentation highlighted the challenges faced by California's tomato processing industry, including drought, heatwaves, unseasonable rainstorms, and significant cost increases for processors and growers. Despite these challenges and strong market incentives, there was a 14% miss from initial production intentions in 2022, with record low inventory positions expected. Furthermore, assuming reasonable production and movement levels for 2023 and 2024, inventory levels do not rebound, staying at record lows, leading to continued strong upward pressure on bulk paste prices until July 2025. De La Mater stressed that the issues are rooted in the growing sector and urged stakeholders to collaborate to boost the sector's productivity and reliability to improve the supply chain's sustainability.