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North
American Greenhouse Tomatoes Emerge as a Major Market Force
The rapidly growing greenhouse tomato industry
has become an important part of the North American fresh tomato
industry. Greenhouse tomatoes now represent an estimated 17
percent of U.S. fresh tomato supply. Even though greenhouse
tomatoes still constitute a minority share of the U.S. fresh
tomato market, their influence is concentrated and growing
in retail channels, which represent about half of U.S. tomato
consumption.
Linda
Calvin
Roberta Cook |
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Policy
Options for a Changing Rural America
In 1950, 4 out of every 10 rural people lived
on a farm, and almost a third of the Nation’s rural
workforce was engaged directly in production agriculture.
Because agriculture dominated the social and economic well-being
of most of the rural population, public policy related to
agriculture was a dominant force shaping rural life both on
the farm and in rural communities. But today, rural America
is vastly different from 50 years ago, and current commodity-based
farm policies do not fully address the complexities of rural
economies and populations.
Leslie
A. Whitener |
