In Reply to: The planet has entered a ‘new reality’ as it hits its first clima posted by mh on October 13, 2025 at 10:08:58
Tony DiMare’s family owns 4,000 acres of tomato farms across Florida and California. Sadly, his Florida crops have been mowed over and left to rot, as with many tomato vines across the state.
But the reason has nothing to do with growing conditions and everything to do with the economy.
In January, he warned that Trump’s crackdown on migrants would squeeze farmers, who rely on migrants to pick produce.
“We have to secure our borders south and north, but you have to have a workforce in this country,” he told the Financial Post.
More recently, DiMare told The Washington Post that Florida's acreage for tomato farms has tumbled from 61,800 acres in 1990 to 23,000 today – that’s a drop of almost 63%.