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VEGETABLES

 

Released October 5, 2005

Seasonal

No. 984-3-05

                     NEW YORK ONION PRODUCTION DOWN 37 PERCENT

New York=s onion crop for 2005 is forecast at 3.30 million hundredweight (cwt.), down 37 percent from last year=s crop of 5.20 million cwt., according to Steve Ropel, Director of USDA=s National Agricultural Statistics Service, New York Office.  Even though the condition of the onions remained good throughout the summer, the hot dry summer resulted in smaller than normal onions, bringing the expected yield down drastically from last year=s yield of 400 cwt.  The expected yield of 260 cwt. per acre would be the lowest since 2002.

U.S. SUMMER STORAGE ONION PRODUCTION

DOWN 14 PERCENT

Summer storage onion production is forecast at 49.7 million hundredweight, down 14 percent from last year.  Storage onion harvested area is forecast at 103,620 acres, down 5 percent from 2004.  California production, at 11.6 million hundredweight, is 6 percent below 2004.  Harvested area is expected to be 27,500 acres, down 4 percent from last year.

                                     ONIONS:   Area Harvested, Yield, and Production by Season,

                                        State, and United States, 2003-2004 and Forecasted 2005

  Crop and State

Area

Yield per acre

Production

 Harvested

 For Harv.

2005

 2003

 2004

 2005

 2003

 2004

 2005

2003

2004
 

Acres

Cwt.

1,000 cwt.
       

Spring

32,500

35,700

34,100

312

337

310

10,133

12,031

10,563

Summer

                  

  Non-Storage

22,200

23,200

22,400

522

521

488

11,588

12,098

10,920
                   

Storage

                  

CA1

35,000

28,500

27,500

420

430

420

14,700

12,255

11,550

CO

9,600

11,000

9,500

385

500

440

3,696

5,500

4,180

ID

9,800

10,400

9,500

600

770

700

5,880

8,008

6,650

MI

3,600

3,200

3,300

320

290

260

1,152

928

858

MN 2 3

210

    

310

    

65

    

NY

11,900

13,000

12,700

320

400

260

3,808

5,200

3,302

OH 4

380

    

320

    

122

    

OR

                  

Malheur

12,200

11,100

11,000

590

780

600

7,198

8,658

6,600

Other

6,900

7,400

7,000

470

570

500

3,243

4,218

3,500

UT 5

1,800

1,500

  

460

520

  

828

780

  

WA

18,000

20,000

19,500

570

580

600

10,260

11,600

11,700

WI

2,000

1,900

1,700

345

320

330

690

608

561
                   

Other States 6

  

550

1,920

  

324

425

  

178

816
                   

Total

111,390

108,550

103,620

464

534

480

51,642

57,933

49,717
                   

Summer

133,590

131,750

126,020

473

532

481

63,230

70,031

60,637
                   

US

166,090

167,450

160,120

442

490

445

73,363

82,062

71,200
       

1  Primarily for dehydrated and other processing.
2   2004 data not published to avoid disclosure of individual operations.
3  Estimates discontinued in 2005.
4  2004 and 2005 data not published to avoid disclosure of individual operations.
5  2005 data not published to avoid disclosure of individual operations.
6   2004 - MN and OH.
  2005 - OH and UT.

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