California Processing Tomato Report

United States Department of Agriculture
National Agricultural Statistics Service

2022 California
Processing Tomato Report
Pacific Region · P.O. Box 1258 · Sacramento, CA 95812 · (916) 738-6600 · (855) 270-2722 Fax · www.nass.usda.gov/ca

Released: January 25, 2022

TOMATO PROCESSORS EXPECT TO
CONTRACT 12.2 MILLION TONS IN 2022
As of January, California’s tomato processors reported they have, or will have, contracts for 12.2 million
tons in 2022, which is an increase of 10% compared to 11.1 million contracted tons forecast in the
August 2021 California Processing Tomato Report. Processors estimate that the contracted production
for 2022 will come from 245,000 acres, generating an average yield of 49.8 tons per acre. The
contracted planted acreage forecast is 7% higher than the 2021 acreage of 229,000 reported under
contract in August.
The USDA-NASS Pacific Regional Office surveyed California’s tomato processors for their intended
contract acreage and tonnage for the upcoming 2022 season. The data reported by processors was
either tonnage with derived acreage, or acreage with derived tonnage.
This early processing tomato estimate is funded by the California League of Food Producers.

Year
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021 1
2022
1

INTENDED AND FINAL
HARVESTED CONTRACTED PRODUCTION
January 1
Final
Thousand tons
8,900
8,564
10,500
10,806
10,900
9,141
11,000
11,350
10,300
9,440
11,600
10,024
12,000
11,965
11,800
11,691
13,300
13,148
12,600
12,212
12,600
11,900
12,700
12,540
13,000
11,900
13,500
13,965
15,000
14,307
13,200
12,527
11,600
10,407
12,000
11,994
12,100
11,130
12,000
11,312
12,100
(NA)
12,200
(NA)

Difference
-336
+306
-1,759
+350
-860
-1,576
-35
-109
-152
-388
-700
-160
-1,100
+465
-693
-673
-1,193
-6
-970
-688
(NA)
(NA)

Final 2021 production will be released in the Vegetables 2021 Summary at www.nass.usda.gov on February 16, 2022.
County-Level data for 2021 will be available at www.nass.usda.gov/Statistics_by_State/California/Publications in March 2022.
(NA) Not available.

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2022 California Processing Tomato Report (January 25, 2022)
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California Tomato Acreage and Production
Year

Contract only
Harvested
Production
Acres
Tons
Metric tons
280,000
279,000
10,024,000
9,094,000
298,000
293,000
11,965,000
10,854,000
278,000
276,000
11,691,000
10,606,000
308,000
304,000
13,148,000
11,928,000
269,000
268,000
12,212,000
11,079,000

2006
2007
2008
2009
2010

Acres
283,000
301,000
281,000
312,000
271,000

282,000
296,000
279,000
308,000
270,000

Production
Tons
10,104,000
12,082,000
11,822,000
13,314,000
12,297,000

2011
2012
2013
2014
2015

255,000
260,000
263,000
292,000
299,000

250,000
258,000
260,000
289,000
296,000

11,941,000
12,640,000
12,100,000
14,010,000
14,361,000

254,000
258,000
259,000
291,000
297,000

249,000
256,000
256,000
288,000
295,000

11,900,000
12,540,000
11,900,000
13,965,000
14,307,000

10,796,000
11,376,000
10,796,000
12,669,000
12,979,000

2016
2017
2018
2019
2020

262,000
230,000
241,000
235,000
234,000

258,000
222,000
236,000
228,000
228,000

12,647,000
10,464,000
12,284,000
11,186,000
11,312,000

260,000
229,000
235,000
234,000
234,000

256,000
221,000
230,000
227,000
228,000

12,527,000
10,407,000
11,994,000
11,130,000
11,312,000

11,364,000
9,441,000
10,881,000
10,097,000
10,262,000

(NA)
(NA)

(NA)
(NA)

(NA)
(NA)

229,000
245,000

227,000
(NA)

11,100,000
12,200,000

10,070,000
11,068,000

20211
2022
1/

Planted

Total crop
Harvested

Planted

Data for 2021 was carried forward from the August 31, 2021 California Processing Tomato Report.
Revised 2021 data will be available in the Vegetables 2021 Summary at www.nass.usda.gov on February 16, 2022.
County-Level data for 2021 will be available at www.nass.usda.gov/Statistics_by_State/California/Publications in March 2022.

(NA) Not available.

California publications are available
free-of-charge on the Internet at: www.nass.usda.gov/ca

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