MADISON, Maine — Backyard Farms, the commercial tomato grower that was forced this past summer to rip up half a million tomato plants, has brought back nearly half its furloughed workers and expects to have tomatoes back on grocery store shelves by the beginning of 2014.
The company, which last year produced about 27 million pounds of tomatoes in its 42 acres of greenhouse space in Madison, expects to complete the replanting of its entire crop of half a million tomato plants by the end of the week, Michael Aalto, a company spokesman, told the Bangor Daily News. As a result, it is back to employing between 60 and 70 people, he said.
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