Articles by brian@columbiamediagroup.com

By René Hardwick, National Onion Association Director of Public and Industry Relations If you haven’t been paying close attention to what’s going on in Congress, or perhaps you’re focused more…

By Jon Hamill, Technical Lead, Syngenta Increasing pressure from onion maggot demands growers push back with multi-season management plans that address resistance management and deliver high efficacy. A treatment plan…

By René Hardwick, Director of Public and Industry Relations, National Onion Association Members of the National Onion Association (NOA) got started immediately at the annual convention in December to begin…

Northwest Farm Credit Services’ 12-month profitability outlook calls for “breakeven returns” on onions. The drivers behind this prediction include demand for remaining large onions, rising input costs and weather. Following…

Onion Thrips and Stemphylium Leaf Blight Management By Natalie Constancio, Doug Higgins, Mary Hausbeck and Zsofia Szendrei, Michigan State University A potential interaction between thrips and Stemphylium leaf blight is…

Progress in the Stop the Rot Project in Georgia By Bhabesh Dutta, Associate Professor and Extension Vegetable Pathologist, University of Georgia; and Mei Zhao, Post-doctoral Research Associate, University of Georgia…

Daryle Tateyama, a longtime member of the Colorado onion industry, passed away on Dec. 28, 2021, at the age of 70. Tateyama grew up on the family farm in Ault,…

New research suggests riparian buffer strips could be installed in even more places, boosting their impact by pulling nutrients from farmland waterflow A new study suggests we may have more…