AppHarvest announced this week that it has begun commercial shipments of tomatoes from its high-tech indoor farm in Richmond. The shipments of tomatoes are from the first harvest produced by the ...

Mac Sanders, standing in one of the fields on his St. Helena farm in an endless sea of tomatoes, carefully makes a thin incision into a tomato’s green flesh, checking its seedy innards for ripeness.

Meanwhile, farmer Faisal Abdullah Al-Lafi explained that “laying down hanging tomato plants inside greenhouses and ...

Ashley Randle, commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources, holds up one of the contenders in the "heaviest tomato" category. (Arielle Gray/ WBUR) Commercial tomato growers ...