LA market report

Grape tomatoes, cherry tomatoes and cluster tomatoes are showing price strength on the Los Angeles wholesale market today, but roma and round tomatoes are sitting around and starting to color up, one market source told me today. Not many roma or round tomatoes are moving out and some that have gone out are coming back, he said. Prices are holding but represent few sales for romas and round tomatoes.

Grape tomatoes, cherry tomatoes and cluster tomatoes - roughly accounting for 15% of overall tomato volume - appear to be strengthening in price as those types have been "cleared" by the FDA.