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Higher Canadian Dollar C to Hurt Canadian Onion E by Myron Love As with last year, the continued strength of the Canadian dollar over most of this year versus its American counterpart has had a negative impact on Canadian onion exports — although with the value of the Canadian dollar having fallen as low as 83 cents U.S. over the past few weeks, that may be changing. “Exports have been very slow,” says Earl Kidston, a grower in the Annapolis Valley in Nova Scotia. “They are nowhere near past levels.” Jim Veri of Exeter Produce in Ontario agrees that exports of Canadian onions were substantially less than normal this year. He notes, however, that Ontario growers are making up for the drop in export sales with increased domestic sales and higher prices for their products. In general, Veri reports, the yields have been good, although 22 Onion World some areas suffered damage from hail or standing water. The bulk of Canada’s onion growers are in Ontario, Canada’s most populous province. The more than 300 Ontario onion growers are concentrated in two main regions. One group is based in the Bradford area just north of Toronto with the rest centered in the Hollow Marsh area south of Georgian Bay to the west. Exeter Produce markets onions from the Bradford area where the yearly average planting is 3,500-4,000 acres of mainly yellow cooking onions. In Quebec, the largely Frenchspeaking province to the east of Ontario, the average planting is between 1,600 and 1,700 acres. There are about 80 growers in Quebec growing mostly yellow and Spanish onions. “Because it was wet and humid through much of the summer in our area, there were some problems with disease,” says Mario LebLanc, a provincial government spokesman. “Nonetheless, the crop looked good in general.” Kidston reports that fewer onions were planted in the three southern Maritime provinces (New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island). (In 2007, there were about 500 acres of mainly yellow onions planted in the region.) “The yield was about one-third less this year,” Kidston says. “The prices held up though.” Zooming half way across the country to the province of Manitoba (which borders Minnesota and North Dakota), Larry McIntosh, the president and CEO of Peak of the Market, the province’s largest vegetable marketing co-op, reports that the onion crop in the province was above average both in quality and price. “We had the best price in many years,” he says. Manitoba’s four primary growers plant about 550 acres of red, yellow and white onion per year. On the west coast, Lillian Posch, CEO of the BC Vegetable marketing Commission, notes that while there was some problem with sweet and red onions, the yellow onions looked very good this past season. British Columbia producers plant Monosem TM Planters Nyssa Machine & Welding Specialty Built Equipment (541) 372-3123 www.nyssamachine.com
ontinues xports about 6 million kilograms of onions in the Okanagan Valley, the Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island. “Domestic prices weren’t bad in the early fall,” says Posch. “But imported onions from Washington States later in the fall had some impact on the prices.” People in the News Kelly Keithly Elected ASTA Chairman Kelly Keithly, founder and president of Keithly-Williams Seeds, Holtville, Calif., has been elected chairman of the American Seed Trade Association (ASTA). His election took place during the ASTA’s 125 th Annual Convention held in June in Orlando, Fla. Keithly previously served as president of the California Seed Association and also has held various positions within ASTA, including chairman of the Vegetable and Flower Seed Division, vice president of the Western Region, and director at large. The new ASTA chairman and his wife Cheryl reside in Yuma, Ariz. Lockhart Seeds, Inc. (209) 466-4401 P.O. Box 1361 Stockton, CA 95201 Specializing in Onion Varieties In California: Bob Scatena • Mobile: 209-482-5543 • Fax: 209-466-9766 “If It’s Seed - We Have It” In Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Texas: Robert Gobleck • Office: 575-544-0304 • Mobile: 575-644-5712 • Fax: 575-544-0305 In Mexico: Cesar Baeza • Office: 639-473-04-56 • Mobile: 639-465-04-00 • Fax: 639-473-00-20 Onion World • November 2008 23
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