Despite drought, tomato crops thrive

Friday, August 17, 2012 | 6:00 a.m. CDT; updated 9:43 a.m. CDT, Friday, August 17, 2012

COLUMBIA – This time last year, Tim Reinbott was surveying a field of damaged tomatoes after an early July hailstorm. Only 65 of the 115 varieties planted that season survived.

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