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A depressed onion market

Posted by michael on March 07, 2017
“The onion market is depressed at this time,” says Jerry Baker with Baker Packing out of Ontario, Oregon. “We have an excellent quality storage crop in Idaho and Oregon and storage volumes are adequat…

Argentina is at the end of the land-days onion cycle for its latitude, so the country can start evaluating the production and drawing some conclusions regarding the product's availability, quality, …

Poland: Increased onion supply, prices lower than a year ago

Posted by michael on October 18, 2016
  Onion prices in Poland's domestic market are considerably lower than a year earlier. According to data from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, the average price of onions for consum…

Battle for orders on onion market

Posted by michael on September 28, 2016
According to René Tiggelman, of Van Langevelde Handelsmij from Kruiningen, the Netherlands, the onion market could stand to become a bit more hectic. “Last week, prices dropped significantly to about …

The how and why of onion price drop in China

Posted by michael on September 12, 2016
The cultivation range of onions in China is very extensive. Wherever you go, from North to South, everyone's growing onions. But the onion market situation is bad this year. Prices have been low all m…

Japan: Tear-free onions to launch this winter

Posted by michael on August 02, 2016
After more than 20 years of trial and error, Japanese researchers have produced onions, which release nearly none of the eye-irritating gases responsible for causing tears when chopping the vegetable.…

China: promising start onion season

Posted by michael on May 11, 2016
Right now, Jiangsu, Shandong and Henan province in China have started the onion harvest. Judging by the current market purchase price, yields can reach around 5,000 Yuan per mu (equal to 75,000 Yuan p…

Last week an international group participated in the Hazera study tour in California. Here the onion breeding, production, processing and sales in California (US) were topical. The tour started on Apr…

Onions for eyebrow growth

Posted by michael on April 06, 2016
New beauty trends and tips appear everyday, and the latest of these involves rubbing onion on your eyebrows to stimulate hair growth.   Beauty blogger Huda Kattan has one of the largest followings o…

Onion price expected to rise this year

Posted by michael on February 19, 2016
Before the Spring Festival, a cold wave suddenly hit the whole Weifang City in Shandong Province, and the temperature in this area dropped significantly to minus eight degrees, close to the lowest tem…

How To Cut An Onion Without Crying

Posted by michael on February 05, 2016

Onion is the second most economically important commercial vegetable crop for fresh market in the United States. It is estimated that approximately 6.2 billion pounds (2.8 million tons) of onions are …

Onions work as blood thinners

Posted by michael on June 10, 2015
If you are older, and are taking blood thinners, if you have a disease or condition that keeps your blood from clotting properly, or if you are soon having surgery, you may find yourself with some une…

Onion a day keeps the doctor away

Posted by on May 25, 2015
An onion a day keeps the doctor away. True. Researchers at the Allahabad University have proved that switching over to onion (around Rs 10 per kg) from apple (Rs 120 per kg) will provide the same nutr…

Quiet Onion Market - Calm before the storm

Posted by on May 05, 2015
After a sudden price increase this month, it has now become quiet in the onion market. "Prices have also dropped slightly to 18-20 cents per unit for the large and 15-17 cents for the medium," says Ri…

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