No Onion Price Changes in the Last Week
Onion Shipping Point Prices For November 25, 2024 This is something we don’t see often – shipping point prices from all areas stayed exactly the same over the last week…
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Crookham Company Celebrates Successful Seed Season
Story and photos by Kris Crookham, Crookham Company Despite some smoke from wildfires in late summer, it was a good year for growing onion seed in southwest Idaho. This pocket…
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Ecorobotix Releases ARA Sprayer Herbicide Savings
Ecorobotix has released collected results on their ARA sprayer that significantly reduces herbicide usage. Data from nearly 3,000 missions in onion fields using the ultra-high precision sprayer reveals nearly 70%…
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Whites Take a Jump
Onion Shipping Point Prices For November 12, 2024 White onions in the PNW and the Treasure Valley took a nice jump this week. In Columbia Basin, Washington & Umatilla Basin,…
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Turning Onion Skins Into Sustainable Packaging
In both the food industry and households alike, onion skins are typically viewed as waste, as they’re not fit for consumption. Although some creative uses for onion peels exist –…
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Strong Thanksgiving Push In Full Swing
Onion Market Update for Nov. 11, 2024 By John Harris November is here and the Thanksgiving push seems to be in full swing this week. A lot of shipments will…
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2024 WSU Onion Field Day Recap
The 2024 Washington State University (WSU) Columbia Basin Onion Cultivar Trial evaluated 47 cultivars and lines using three replicate plots. The onions were planted on March 29 in a center-pivot…
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Tessenderlo Kerley Inc. Acquires Tiger-Sul Products, LLC
Tessenderlo Kerley is pleased to announce that it has acquired Tiger-Sul Products, LLC, a North American focused provider of sulfur-based fertilizer products, from Platte River Equity. The acquisition closed on November 6,…
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Farmer Sentiment in October Rebounded Ahead of the U.S. Election
By James Mintert and Michael Langemeier, Purdue Center for Commercial Agriculture October provided a surprising pre-election bounce in farmer sentiment as the Purdue University-CME Group Ag Economy Barometer index climbed to 115,…
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Thrips Tips and Maggot Management
Story and photos by Denise Keller, Editor It was a fairly easy year to control thrips in the Columbia Basin, according to an informal show-of-hands survey by Washington State University’s…
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