At the end of last season, all indications were that California packers would need fewer tomatoes in 2012. It [...]
Shrinking processing margins signal that California packers may contract for fewer tomatoes next season. On October 27th, the USDA released [...]
In the United States, many sales of bulk tomato paste are done under cost‐based contracts. Those costs have gone [...]
It’s impossible to say what the market price is for bulk tomato paste. There is no exchange or independent [...]
When buyers signed paste contracts in the spring, they experienced sharp relief from the rising prices of the last [...]
After several years of global shortage, last year’s bumper crop shifted the market into a surplus environment. Processors around [...]
Since tomatoes make up most of tomato paste’s processing cost, bulk tomato paste prices follow the field price closely. [...]
Despite forecasts of record processing tomato volumes, pricing for California paste is not dropping. Prices are holding at about [...]
With the arrival of new supplies this summer, prices for bulk tomato products will fall from the dizzying spot [...]