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                              VEGETABLE REPORT
                               October 2010


Seasonal
No. 984-5-10



                 NEW YORK ONION PRODUCTION DOWN 14 PERCENT



New York=s onion crop for 2010 is forecast at 3.67 million hundredweight
(cwt.), down 14 percent from last year=s crop of 4.28 million cwt.,
according to King Whetstone, Director of USDA=s National Agricultural
Statistics Service, New York Office.  Harvested acreage is estimated at
10,200 acres, down 1 percent from last year’s acreage of 10,300.  Heat and
wind, combined with early season wetness and late season dryness resulted
in a yield drop for the current year.



            U.S. SUMMER STORAGE ONION PRODUCTION DOWN 5 PERCENT

Summer storage onion production is forecast at 54.7 million hundredweight,
down 5 percent from last year. Storage onion harvested area is forecast
at 104,470 acres, down 1 percent from 2009. California production, 13.1
million hundredweight, is 9 percent below 2009. Harvested area is expected
to total 29,000 acres, down 8 percent from last year.


            ONIONS:  Area Harvested, Yield, and Production by Season,
            State, and United States, 2008-2009 and Forecasted 2010



                              Area             Yield per acre         Production
                       Harvested   For Harv.
  Season and State   2008    2009    2010    2008  2009   2010   2008    2009    2010
                             Acres                  Cwt.              1,000 cwt.

Spring              28,400  27,200  25,900    334    315   296   9,498   8,559  7,656
Summer
  Non-Storage       19,400  17,400  17,900    533    551   534  10,344   9,584  9,550

Storage
CA1                 31,300  31,400  29,000    425    445   450  13,303  14,287 13,050
CO                   7,500   6,600   6,900    380    410   390   2,850   2,706  2,691
ID                   8,600   8,800   9,000    720    740   750   6,192   6,512  6,750
MI                   3,600   3,800   4,100    280    350   235   1,008   1,330    964
NY                  10,100  10,300  10,200    410    415   360   4,141   4,275  3,672
OR
Malheur             12,200  11,200  11,100    710    700   680   8,662   7,840  7,548
Other                9,600   9,100   8,900    620    600   610   5,952   5,460  5,429
WA                  20,000  21,000  22,000    600    630   610  12,000  13,230 13,420
WI                   1,100   2,000   1,800    300    500   260     330   1,000    468

Other States2        1,690   1,860   1,470    497    416   479     840     774    704

Total              105,690 106,060 104,470    523    541   524  55,278  57,414 54,696

Summer              125,090 123,460  122,370  525    543   525   65,622 66,998  64,246

US                  153,490 150,660  148,270  489    502   485   75,120 75,557  71,902

1/  Primarily for dehydrated and other processing.
2/  OH and UT.