At just 800 acres, tomatoes harvested for the fresh market in Indiana was down 11 percent in 2009. Yield per acre was down 6 percent and total production declined by 17 percent.
Processing tomato acreage in Indiana was up 18 percent in 2009 to 9,800 acres, production jumped 29 percent to 321,340 tons.
The Indiana field office of the National Ag Statistics service reports 2,200 acres of cantaloupes were harvested in Indiana in 2009, a 4 percent decline from the previous year, watermelon growers harvested 7,400 acres which was a 3 percent increase.
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