Dee-Ann Durbin | Associated Press

Delivery drones are supposed to be fast, yet the long-promised technology has been slow to take off in the United States. More than six years after the Federal Aviation Administration approved the first commercial home deliveries with drones, the service still is confined to a handful of suburbs. That could soon change.

Robert Guenther, Executive Vice President of the Florida Tomato Exchange, said the duty was “an enormous victory for American tomato farmers and American agriculture."