The following photos are from August 2013.

These tomatoes are from an organic farm in the Willamette Valley in Oregon (USA).

The farm manager told me that they will typically lose 5% of their tomatoes to this sort of “defect”.

In August 2013 they lost 95% of the tomato crop in the plot I got these tomatoes from. The plot was under commercial green house hoop cover (no rain on the tomatoes) with the ends open.

The plot was about 30 feet by 250 feet in size.

Note:

I have personally seen this defect in organic tomatoes that I have grown myself prior to 3/11/11, yet never to this extent

The defect would happen on a few tomatoes out of an entire garden crop.