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Article: Processing vegetables: production mixed
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- Frozen Food Digest
- Article date:
- February 1, 1994
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Contract production of the four major vegetables for processing (tomatoes, sweet corn, snap beans, and green peas) is expected to rise 2 percent in 1993 to 13.3 million short tons. However, increased tomato production will account for all the gain. A combination of less acreage and cool, wet weather in key midwestern production regions cut contract production 18 percent for the other three major processing vegetables. Harvested acreage and per-acre yields were each lower than a year ago for these 3 crops. Harvested acreage for sweet corn, snap beans, and green peas fell 13 percent to 880,000 acres--the lowest combined acreage since 1986.
With the exception of snap ...