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Farm Market Update: Big price drop expected today Matins reminder: Thanks for the morning. For cheap tomatoes. For Eddie Compton's rosanears. By Ed Waggener Jake Willis, the producer who pretty well sets the commodity price pace for the crop in Adair County announced last evening, Tuesday, July 13, 2010, that he is planning a huge price drop on tomatoes today. "Everything in this building will be half price. They're a $1 a pound now. They are going to be 50 cents a pound tomorrow." Whether the drop will be that precipitous or not remains to be seen. New shoppers should also be reminded that, while Adair County Homegrown Tomatoes have a value several times the price now being paid, prudent buyers should always study the market. We remember back in the 1960s when the late Irvin Houchens sent this handwritten note out to his store managers: "Some of you managers are still paying 10 cents a pound for tomatoes. Don't you know you'll go broke paying 10 cents a pound for tomatoes now?" Our guess is that the days of plentiful tomatoes won't get so great as has sometimes happened to turnip producers. Old timers in Gradyville still recall the days when the top turnip man couldn't give away his crop except in the dead of the night. "You'd wake up in the morning, and find that Woodson had snuck in and left a bucket of turnips on your step." One has to think about that kind of plenty, and remember the fable of the industry of the ant and the hedonism of the grasshopper the next time they visit a supermarket and see a cello wrapped tray of six pelfy turnips for $2.99. If in fact he follows through with the lower price, that will mean that canning and homemade tomato juice prices are here. Willis said that the 2500 hills of tomatoes this year are producing the best crop he's ever had. He sells them from his residence at 40 Concord RD in the Village of Garlin, KY. Willis has plenty of firm red ripe tomatoes and green tomatoes for frying. He recommends tomatoes with just a hint of color for frying. Isn't it great when local restaurants serve locally produced food? Jake Willis' tomatoes are being sliced in at least one major name Columbia restaurant, and we've seen some customers fill over half their plate from the buffet with them. Don't you love it when local restaurants are serving local food? Jake Willis has all sizes of tomatoes, though we didn't see any at his place to match the 3-pound, dinner plate size Brandywine tomato Myra Harrison had at the Tuesday Adair Farmer's Market. If there's a bigger one, we'd like to hear about it. Eddie Compton's corn is amazing Footnotes: Tried some of Sweet Corn King Eddie Compton's 2010 crop yesterday. As quick boiled corn on the cob and cut off for fried corn. Both ways, it's about as good as Garrison Keillor says sweet corn can get. Had them with Myra Harrison grown Brandywine tomato slicer, which could only have been better if I weren't too lazy to fry some green tomatoes and make a simple cornbread to go with it. Makes you forget Elbertas in Georgia That would have been too much work. But I did get a new appreciation for the real flavor of Adair County grown Elberta peaches. I sliced them and ate them straight. Jeff Scott's product made me forget thinking Elbertas eaten in Elberta, GA, were the best food I had ever tasted. Flavors don't get any better than when they come from close to home. These are the days when we all have to append to their standard morning prayer of Thanks, "Thank you Lord, for letting me live another day," the line, "and thank you Lord, most of all, for letting me live it in Adair County, Kentucky. Amen."-Ed Waggener This story was posted on 2010-07-14 03:59:37
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