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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.

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.

Vidalia onion grower G&R Farms has hired Jon Dorminey as director of operations.

It’s the year nobody ever dreamed of, but thanks to good weather and healthy retail sales, sweet potato growers appear to be adapting well to their new world.