REDDING, Calif. — Fresh-market tomato growers in Northern California say this summer’s conditions have been ripe for a good crop for those who have enough water.

“Everything’s ripened early, but it’s been a good crop with good flavor,” said Aldon Burlison, owner of Burlison’s Fruit Stand in Dairyville, Calif.

He added the occasional triple-digit heat has quickened the development of his tomatoes but hasn’t damaged the crop.

“When it cools off, they slow down,” Burlison said. “It’s been kind of hit and miss. It gets hot and then it gets cool again.”

For Orland, Calif., produce farmer Ed Hughes, the season has been a little rough because the water he draws from his wells is getting scarcer, he said.

“We’ve actually cut back on the types of things I grow,” Hughes said during a farmers’ market in Redding on Aug. 8.

But the season has been agreeable for Tom Reemts, owner of Tom’s Produce south of Redding.

“It’s pretty good because I’ve been growing these under shade cloth,” Reemts said of his tomatoes. “When it gets really hot, they like being in the shade.”

The harvests of both fresh-market and processing tomatoes have been under way in California for a little more than a month. California leads the nation in fresh tomato tonnage and provides more than one-third of the U.S. domestic supply, although tonnage and acreage were down last year, according to the National Agricultural Statistics Service.

About 5,087.5 tons of fresh-market tomatoes were harvested from about 32,300 acres statewide in 2014, down from 5,670 tons on 36,000 acres in 2012, according to NASS’ annual vegetable report.

Meanwhile, good growing conditions so far this summer have enabled the state’s processing tomato farmers to keep up with last year’s record pace, the California Farm Bureau Federation reports.

Tomato processors anticipate contracts for 14.3 million tons in 2015, a 2 percent increase from the final contracted production last year, NASS reported.

The projected harvested acreage of processing tomatoes is 295,000 acres, about 2 percent more than last year’s final total of 289,000 productive acres, according to NASS. As with fresh-market tomatoes, much of processing tomato growers’ success will hinge on the performance of wells for those who won’t have much or any surface water.

This year’s $80-per-ton contract price is second only to the 2014 price of $83 a ton, making tomatoes a worthwhile crop for farmers who have row-crop ground and some water, the Farm Bureau noted.

Perhaps bolstering tomato crops have been breaks in the heat. In the northern Sacramento Valley, temperatures reached triple digits for three different stretches in July but cooled off into the 80s in between them, according to the National Weather Service.