Wordwiz, You will also need alot of help (Planting, Stringing, Picking, Distributing). I've sold maters for the past 2 seasons and I grow mostly heirlooms and OP maters, but I only grow approx 500 plants and do all the work myself and still work a 40hr a week job. When I sell at the local farmers market I'm the only one with heirlooms everybody else has tons of red tomatos and sell for about $1 a lb. I get $3 a lb for the hierlooms and also sell to several local Chefs. I just think it would be tough to compete with the reg red tomato market unless you go big (over 10,000 plants) and then that would be your only job.
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