Lessons on Becoming a Certified USDA Vendor
The Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) invites you to a live, interactive webinar on lessons learned in becoming an approved USDA Foods vendor. Each year, AMS purchases over 300 different food…
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Quality is Key
Story and photos by Denise Keller, Editor Cody Nickoloff checks the quality of Redwing onions in storage. As most onion growers know, quality is key. For CSS Farms in Pasco,…
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President Trump Proclaims March 14 National Ag Day
President Donald J. Trump has proclaimed today as National Ag Day. This year marks the third year that the administration has publicly recognized National Ag Day as a salute to…
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Supplemental Calcium Product Hits Market
Oro Agri has introduced Encourage Nanocal, a liquid, soil-applied product designed to supply onions with readily available calcium during periods of bulb formation. The calcium carbonate particles are milled to…
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Shipping Point Prices for March 11
New York is out of onions, and white onions in the PNW and Idaho/Malheur are also sold out. Whites imported from Mexico are nearly gone. This light supply caused prices…
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The Caribbean: Imports of Fresh Onions, Shallots
By Mark Wocial, Certified Global Business Professional, Wocial & Associates LLC According to estimates found in the U.N. international trade statistics database, imports of fresh onions by countries in the…
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July/August 2009
In July/August 2009, Wayne Inaba was on the cover of Onion World. Inaba Produce Farm was a third-generation family farming operation in Wapato, Washington, growing more than a dozen different…
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Mycorrhizal Inoculants: Yea or Nay?
The Effects of Mycorrhizal Inoculants on Onion Crops in the Columbia Basin By Louisa Winkler, Lindsey du Toit and Tim Waters, Washington State University In a survey taken at the…
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Shipping Point Prices For February 25
Shippers in Idaho-Malheur County have run out of their high-priced whites, but Columbia Basin is still shipping them at $14.50 to $15 above last year. Mexico crossings through Texas make…
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Germains Improves Seed Treatment
Germains has reformulated its conventional ProFlo treatment for onion seed. ProFlo is a heavy encrustment coating meant to help improve singulation when planted with a vacuum seeder. Encrustments are said…
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