Tomato shortage

 Axios

America's salad bowl is in trouble: Price hikes coming for tomatoes, onions and garlic next year.

• "There's just not enough water to grow everything that we normally grow," California Board of Food and Agriculture president Don Cameron told Reuters.

Zoom in: California accounts for 95% of the nation's processed tomato production and 35% of global production, Axios' Sareen Habeshian reports.

• Kraft told Reuters it couldn't rule out price increases — but can guarantee ketchup and other products on the shelves.

Zoom out: The Southwest is gripped by its worst megadrought since the Dark Ages, Axios' Andrew Freedman reports.

• The past 22 years rank as the driest period for the region since at least 800 A.D.