Summary: Four early- and 9 mid-maturity variety tests were conducted throughout major processing tomato production regions of California during the 2002 season. An additional mid -maturity test (Colusa County) was lost due to poor seedling emergence. All of the major production areas, from Kern to Sutter/Colusa Counties, had one or more field tests to identify t omato cultivars appropriate for that specific region. Increasing industry interest in the use of transplants has led us to incorporate this production technique into our variety evaluation program, where appropriate. Three of the mid -season test sites (Colusa, San Joaquin and Yolo Counties) utilized transplants. Two of the locations conducted both direct-seeded and transplant mid-season tests. The highest yielding early- maturing replicated varieties, across all locations, were H1100, H9997, H1400, H9280 and APT410. The overall highest yielding mid-maturing replicated varieties when the Fresno1 and Kern locations are also included for a total of nine locations were H9780, PX849, H8892, SUN6324, H9665 and CXD222. However, these two locations did not receive seed of the varieties AB2 and AB5 in time to include in the tests. When the seven locations including those varieties are evaluated, the highest yielding variety is AB5.