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Farm Truck Crop Output Tops Major Foodstuffs This Year
The Agriculture Department reports 25 commercial truck crops for fresh markets totaled over nine million tons in 1950, eight percent above 1949 and near 1939-40 averages, with cabbage leading gains and tomatoes showing the largest decline. Total fresh-vegetable tonnage moved into markets rose three percent from last year, despite prices and marketing factors. Value of 1950 truck crops reached 543,978,000, down from 589,940,000 in 1949.
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Agriculture Department