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

Neftali Garcia, representing the first generation in his family to attend college, was also a benefactor of the Washington Apple Education Foundation.

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.

Good news has been a rarity since the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic broke out early this year. But there appears to be a bright spot when it comes to U.S. citrus sales.

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.

Wisconsin potato grower-shippers seemed to be headed into a healthy market as they prepared to dig their first new-crop spuds.

Organic potato sales out of Wisconsin got an early booster shot from the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, although sales later leveled off, suppliers said.

The Washington Apple Education Foundation has awarded 310 students more than $1 million through its scholarship program.