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Wisconsin potato shipments should be good this season, as should be onion loadings from Idaho and Oregon.
The Wisconsin potato harvest has been underway for a few weeks and will continue into the fall.
Central Wisconsin potato shipments should average, with good quality. Nice color with yellows and red potatoes is reported, plus Wisconsin is shipping more niche potatoes like fingerlings, yellow and specialty potatoes.
Concerning national potato shipments this fall, it appears volume with be similar to last year, which means there will be plenty of loading opportunities for spuds. However, this won’t be certain for two months or more until product is in stoarges and the danger of frost damage is gone.
Central Wisconsin potatoes – grossing about $3300 to San Antonio.
Idaho Oregon Onion Shipments
A hot summer has led some Idaho and eastern Oregon onion growers to harvest onions as much as two weeks earlier than normal, resulting from triple digit temperature for a two-week span.
That acreage includes about 1,650 acres of red onions, and more than 500 acres of whites. The balance — and the vast majority — is yellow onions.
The region is expecting onion shipments to be similar to last year.
Loadings could be off a little because of the extreme temperatures. The Idaho-Oregon onion season overlaps with California and New Mexico.
Shipments from Idaho and eastern Oregon occur from August through April and rank second only to Washington state in terms of domestic acreage and volume.
Although yellow spot virus is a potential problem in some areas of the Northwest — including Washington’s northern Columbia Basin — Idaho and eastern Oregon growers claim the virus has not appeared to be a big issue for them this season.