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California leads the world in production of processing tomatoes, the variety that gets canned and used in commercial kitchens to make some of the most popular foods. The problem is the worst drought in 1,200 years is forcing farmers to grapple with a water crisis that is undermining the crop, threatening to further push up prices from salsa to spaghetti sauce. “We desperately need rain,” said Mike Montna, head of the California Tomato Growers Association. “We are getting to a point where we don’t have inventory left to keep fulfilling the market demand.” Lack of water is shrinking production in...
