California Processing Tomato Report

California
Processing Tomato Report
California Department of Food and Agriculture, California Agricultural Statistics
Cooperating with the USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service, California Field Office
California Field Office · P.O. Box 1258 · Sacramento, CA 95812 · (916) 498-5161 · (855) 270-2722 Fax · www.nass.usda.gov/ca
Released: January 15, 2015

TOMATO PROCESSORS EXPECT TO
CONTRACT 15.0 MILLION TONS IN 2015

INTENDED AND FINAL
HARVESTED CONTRACTED PRODUCTION
Year

The USDA-NASS California Field Office surveyed the State’s
tomato processors for their intended contract acreage and tonnage
for the upcoming 2015 season. The data reported by processors
was either tonnage with derived acreage, or acreage with derived
tonnage.

1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015

California’s tomato processors reported they have, or will have,
contracts for 15.0 million tons this year, as of January. If realized
this will be largest crop on record. Processors estimate that the
contracted production for 2015 will come from 310,000 acres
producing an average yield of 48.39 tons per acre. The contracted
planted acreage forecast is a 7 percent increase from what was
reported under contract in the August 2014 California Processing
Tomato Report.
This early processing tomato estimate is funded by the California
League of Food Processors, in cooperation with the California
Department of Food and Agriculture.

1-Jan

9,600
10,000
11,500
10,100
8,900
10,500
10,900
11,000
10,300
11,600
12,000
11,800
13,300
12,600
12,600
12,700
13,000
13,500
15,000

Final 1/
Thousand Tons

9,242
8,846
11,990
10,131
8,564
10,806
9,141
11,350
9,440
10,024
11,965
11,691
13,314
12,297
11,900
12,540
11,900
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Difference 1/

-358
-1154
+490
+31
-336
+306
-1759
+350
-860
-1576
-35
-109
+14
-303
-700
-160
1,100
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1/ Revised 2014 data will be released in the Vegetables 2014
Summary at www.nass.usda.gov on January 29, 2015.

Year

Total Crop
Harvested

Planted
Acres

CALIFORNIA TOMATO ACREAGE AND PRODUCTION 1/
Contract Only
Production
Planted
Harvested
Tons
Acres
Tons

Production
Metric Tons

1991
1992
1993
1994

322,000
242,000
282,000
318,000

312,000
240,000
274,000
311,000

9,893,520
7,932,000
8,951,707
10,745,560

320,000
238,600
280,000
315,000

310,000
236,600
272,000
308,000

9,820,000
7,830,140
8,890,240
10,632,160

8,909,000
7,103,000
8,065,000
9,645,000

1995
1996
1997
1998
1999

331,000
318,000
270,000
282,000
337,000

317,000
313,000
260,000
280,000
329,000

10,605,787
10,658,741
9,342,309
8,892,800
12,239,300

329,000
315,000
267,000
280,000
332,000

315,000
310,000
257,000
278,000
324,000

10,472,980
10,540,000
9,241,720
8,845,960
11,990,270

9,501,000
9,562,000
8,384,000
8,025,000
10,877,000

2000
2001
2002
2003
2004

289,000
258,000
296,000
289,000
301,000

271,000
254,000
291,000
274,000
281,000

10,286,500
8,640,140
11,056,000
9,252,000
11,672,000

285,000
255,000
290,000
286,000
293,000

267,000
251,000
285,000
271,000
273,000

10,131,000
8,563,570
10,806,400
9,141,000
11,350,000

9,191,000
7,769,000
9,803,000
8,293,000
10,297,000

2005
2006
2007
2008
2009

267,000
283,000
301,000
281,000
312,000

264,000
282,000
296,000
279,000
308,000

9,600,000
10,104,000
12,082,000
11,822,000
13,314,000

263,000
280,000
298,000
278,000
308,000

260,000
279,000
293,000
276,000
304,000

9,440,000
10,024,000
11,965,000
11,691,000
13,148,000

8,564,000
9,094,000
10,854,000
10,605,897
11,927,665

268,000
12,212,000
249,000
11,900,000
256,000
12,540,000
256,000
11,900,000
288,000
14,000,000
--15,000,000
Revised 2014 data will be

11,078,543
10,795,501
11,376,100
10,795,501
12,700,590
13,607,775

2010
271,000
270,000
12,297,000
269,000
2011
255,000
250,000
11,941,000
254,000
2012
260,000
258,000
12,640,000
258,000
2013
263,000
260,000
12,100,000
259,000
2014
------290,000
2015
------310,000
1/ Data for 2014 was carried forward from the August 28, 2014 California Processing Tomato Report.
released in the Vegetables 2014 Summary at www.nass.usda.gov on January 29, 2015.

VIC TOLOMEO, Director
Karen Olmstead, Statistician
E-mail: [email protected]