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Favorable planting and growing conditions have onion growers and shippers in South Texas anticipating a timely start and smooth season in 2020.

Organics are still a niche category in the Texas onion business, but they still grow — and sell, suppliers say.

The Weslaco, Texas-based Onion House has fewer acres planted this year than last, said Don Ed Holmes, owner.

Acreage is up this year at Mission, Texas-based organic onion grower-shipper South Tex Organics LLC.

The South Texas Onion Committee has developed www.tx1015.com, a website devoted to South Texas-grown onions.

The demand for organic has infiltrated the sweet Vidalia onion world — a demand that’s rising incrementally year after year, growers and marketers say.

Effective July 30, assessment rates for onions handled under the South Texas onion marketing order will decrease from 6.5 cents to five cents per 50-pound unit.

A new estimate projects that the 2020 Washington apple crop will be similar in size to last season.

How close are robotic apple harvesting machines to commercial deployment?

The COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic has not slowed Wisconsin’s potato industry, said Dana Rady, of the Antigo-based Wisconsin Potato & Vegetable Growers Association.