Heard about the price of tomatoes?

The cost of the juicy red ones has shot through the roof lately, what with the high New Zealand Dollar and the disasterous Queensland floods.

But that hasn’t counted against Ben Smith, a tomato grower from Pukekohe, who was crowned Young Grower of the Year, at the HortNZ Annual Conference, earlier this week.

Reporter Emma Jones met Ben, in a glasshouse, somewhere south of Auckland...