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Rising Heat Leads to Minimal Losses for California Processing Tomatoes

  • by Emily C. Dooley

California’s $1 billion processing tomato industry is highly efficient and likely will be able to withstand higher temperatures and traffic congestion with minimal postharvest losses, according to research conducted at the University of California, Davis.

The research, published in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, analyzed 1.4 million truckloads of tomatoes transported from thousands of farm fields to processing facilities between 2011 and 2020. 

One car drives across New York’s Brooklyn Bridge during this spring’s shelter-in-place directives. (Getty)

As Americans Shelter in Place, Traffic, Emissions and Fuel-Tax Revenues Decline Dramatically

  • by Kat Kerlin
COVID-19 Mitigation Efforts Could Put U.S. on Track to Meet Paris Climate Accord Goals

Americans drove drastically less, saved millions of metric tons of greenhouse gases, and, in some states, lost millions in fuel-tax revenue since COVID-19 mitigation efforts took effect in early March. That is according to the latest special report from the Road Ecology Center at the University of California, Davis.

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