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.

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 ...

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 ...

STEELE, Alabama (WVTM) — Chad Smith and his family have owned this Steele, Alabama, tomato farm for more than half of a century. He claims this month’s regular monsoons are damaging his livelihood.