NAPLES — Freezes took a bite out of Florida’s tomato crop last season.
But the harvest was still bigger than the year before, when growers suffered even more damage from crop-killing freezes.
In the 2010-11 season, Florida growers harvested about 36.1 million 25-pound boxes of round tomatoes, an increase of nearly 8.2 million boxes over the previous year.
“It’s a big jump, but it’s still a fairly small number if you look at historic numbers that were in the upper 40s, to the low 50s,” said Reggie Brown, manager of the Florida Tomato Committee, a tomato marketer and regulator in the state.
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