Tomatoe prices set to soar

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http://www.news.com.au/money/cost-of-living/tomatoes-are-through-the-roof/story-fnagkbpv-1226365150402

TOMATOES could be off the menu for at least two months with prices skyrocketing to $10/kg after flooding and frost crippled supply.

Crops in four key areas up Australia's east coast have been destroyed, with those surviving in limited supply due to delayed plantings.

Industry experts predict the high prices of between $8/kg and $10/kg will ease in the coming months when supply levels return to normal following the combined problems of floods and frost put a huge dent in crops.

Tomato grower Peter Comensoli, from NSW Farmers, said consumers were paying under a $1/kg for field tomatoes just two months ago. But a lack of supply had pushed up prices dramatically in recent weeks.

He said consumers should usually pay between $3.99 and $4.99/kg in good times.

Mr Comensoli said flooding in Queensland had heavily delayed seed planting for growers who would not start producing tomatoes until late June while some Sydney suppliers had been affected by frost. He said those growers in southwest NSW and northern Victoria were hit with a double whammy, when their crops that survived floods were affected by a frost.

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[Wameron36]

That's gonna suck! They had been about 6 or 7 dollars when I last went to the shops and I thought that was ridiculous!

No more tomatoes for me for a while then

[quarterflesh]

haha theres so many tomato crops in bowen people give them away, its sweet as.

[nabraxas]

funny how it's tomato, but tomatoes...

why not tomatos?

does it really need the e to make the o an "oh" ?

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