Reader’s Digest: September 2025

In September 2025, we published the following articles:

• California: Weekly tonnage as of 31 August 2025
• Researchers at the John Innes Centre in the UK used gene-editing to produce a vitamin D3 enriched tomato, which can now be sold, thanks to the Precision Breeding Act that became law last month.
• The Kraft Heinz Company announced it will be separated into two independent and publicly-traded companies.
• FoodNavigator organizes a series of three webinars named Climate Smart, on Smart Farming, Circular Processing and Packaging & Labelling.
• WPTC Crop update as of 5 September 2025.
• California: Weekly tonnage as of 7 September 2025
• Tomato Paste Prices, September 2025: Spain, Portugal, Italy, China, Chile and USA.
• In California, tomato yields are up this season, even though canneries reduced contracted acreage by 10%, so production might reach 11 million short tons.
• The UK market for Italian red preserves continues to grow and represents 13% of Italian tomato products exports.
• In North Italy, the tomato plants suffered from high temperatures in June and July, which caused yields to go below the average of the last 5 years, however Brix is good, at 5.15.
• Goglio has deep expertise in liquid packaging, especially through its Fres-co Aseptic system and GNova filling lines.
• California: Weekly tonnage as of 14 September 2025
• Global Exports of Tomato Paste, updated September 16, 2025.
• New research identified an existing tomato line, developed 3 decades ago, with good resistance to the ToBRFV virus.
• The BlueTree Technologies company developed a sugar-removal process that preserves the beverage’s natural composition.
• California: Weekly tonnage as of 21 September 2025
• WPTC Crop update as of 19 September 2025.
• Aran launches a new generation of tomato packaging that will prevent Flex Cracks and protect the tomato products for long-distance transport.
• Prices of Canned Tomatoes, September 2025: Italy, Spain, USA, Greece, Portugal.
• In Extremadura, one of the main Spanish region for processing tomatoes, the SAFE4TOM Operational Group has created a Blockchain solution for tomato traceability.
• Global tomato paste trade has seen a slight decline this marketing year, with 3.834 million metric tonnes this year, down from 3.98 million tonnes last year.
• California: Weekly tonnage as of 28 September 2025.
• The European producer La Doria and the American Winland Foods are merging to create a new entity, Windoria.
• Global Imports of Tomato Products, updated September 30, 2025.

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