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Plum tomatoes (for Pasta Sauce) (Source (Farm (2 kinds of tomatoes grown…

- - - - 8,000+ plants/acre
      - harvested by machines
        
        rotating clippers cut the plants
        
        cut tomatoes pass up to a shaker
        
        color scanner
        
        discard non-ripe
        
        worker doubles checks
        
        operated by workers
        
        Shot into trailers
        
        24 trailers/day= 1.2 million lbs.
      - 50 tons harvested/acre
      - harvested for 2 months
  - - - More Efficient
- - - - Passed on to Italy
        
        pasta sauce
- - - - perfect climate
        
        warm & dry
    - - Processing
        
        Used for sauces
        
        9/10 farms are processing farms
        
        all harvested at same time
        
        fewer seeds & dense flesh
        
        little water
        
        full bodied and flavorful
        
        20,000 varieties
        
        classified by shape & size
        
        vitamins C & , folate, potassium
        
        American receive more vitamins from tomatoes than any other fruit/vegetable
        
        pasta sauce, ketchup
      - Fresh Market
        
        bought in store
        
        harvested hard and green
    - - generational
        
        Entire year's salary dependent on one crop
- - - - flowers won't survive
        
        Flowers=tomato
    - - won't grow robustly
    - - rot on the vine
  - - - effect salary
        
        Effect livelihood of farm family
- - - - Seed-Farm-Cannery-Truck drivers-stores
- - - - machine peels them
      - cleaned
      - diced
        
        workers resort and double check
        
        cooked and canned
        
        sterilzed
- - - - Tractor drivers
      - Harvesting machine drivers
      - Tomato Trailer drivers