Dist. 2
Commodity Data Sheet
Storage Onions
Order from:
Economic Information Specialist
Extension Economic Information Office
Oregon State University
219 Ballard Extension Hall
Corvallis, OR 97331-3601
Item and area
District
1
Dist.
2
District
3
District
4
District
5
District
6
Commodity number-crop year: 7115-00*
October 2001
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Unit
1996
1997
1998r
1999r
2000p
Acres
Acres
12,000
6,300
12,000
7,400
12,000
7,500
12,900
7,200
11,600
6,100
Acres
Acres
Acres
Acres
Acres
39,200
127,010
13,900
113,110
166,210
37,300
128,610
14,300
114,310
165,910
36,900
134,440
14,150
120,290
171,340
37,500
135,900
14,400
121,500
173,400
36,200
129,970
21,500
108,470
166,170
Cwt 4/
Cwt 4/
590
380
620
450
510
440
670
500
600
520
Cwt 4/
Cwt 4/
Cwt 4/
Cwt 4/
Cwt 4/
261
424
400
427
386
285
452
413
457
414
281
423
399
426
393
299
459
454
459
424
326
460
410
470
431
1,000 cwt
1,000 cwt
7,080
2,394
7,440
3,330
6,120
3,300
8,643
3,600
6,960
3,172
1,000 cwt
1,000 cwt
1,000 cwt
1,000 cwt
1,000 cwt
10,250
53,856
5,558
48,298
64,106
10,649
58,120
5,910
52,210
68,769
10,356
56,926
5,651
51,275
67,282
11,222
62,340
6,541
55,799
73,562
11,812
59,792
8,823
50,969
71,604
Dollars/cwt
Dollars/cwt
10.10
9.10
12.60
15.60
13.00
13.40
5.10
6.40
9.88
9.20
Dollars/cwt
Dollars/cwt
Dollars/cwt
Dollars/cwt
Dollars/cwt
13.20
9.95
14.10
9.39
10.50
18.40
11.40
14.50
12.30
12.60
20.00
12.50
15.90
12.10
13.80
16.50
8.38
15.90
7.35
9.78
16.40
10.10
13.20
9.49
11.20
Acreage harvested
Oregon - Malheur County
Oregon - Other counties
United States
Spring 1/
Summer
Non-storage 2/
Storage 3/
Total spring & summer
Yield per acre
Oregon - Malheur County
Oregon - Other counties
United States
Spring 1/
Summer
Non-storage 2/
Storage 3/
Total spring & summer
Production
Oregon - Malheur County
Oregon - Other counties
United States
Spring 1/
Summer
Non-storage 2/
Storage 3/
Total spring & summer
Farm price
Oregon - Malheur County
Oregon - Other counties
United States
Spring 1/
Summer
Non-storage 2/
Storage 3/
Total spring & summer
r - revised, p - preliminary. *Shaded areas of the Oregon map above represent the major areas of production for this commodity.
1/ Spring onions are grown in AZ, CA, GA & TX. 2/ Non-storage summer onions are grown in CA, NV, NM, TX & WA. 3/ Storage
summer onions are grown in CA, CO ID, MI, MN, NY, OH, OR, UT, WA & WI. 4/ Hundredweight(cwt) is equal to 100 pounds.
Source: Oregon Agricultural Information Network (OAIN), Extension Economic Information Office, Oregon State University and USDA/NASS.
Electronic access to this publication is available at: http://ludwig.arec.orst.edu/econinfo
Storage onions: Acreage, yield, production and value of sales,
by county, Oregon, 1998 - 2000
County
Malheur
Marion
Morrow
Umatilla
Washington
Yamhill
Other counties
State total
County
Malheur
Marion
Morrow
Umatilla
Washington
Yamhill
Other counties
State total
Acreage harvested
1998r
1999r
2000p
Yield per acre
1998r
1999r
2000p
Acres
Acres
Acres
Cwt 1/
Cwt 1/
Cwt 1/
12,000
1,810
1,390
3,710
280
170
12,900
1,920
740
3,950
280
170
11,600
1,230
1,690
2,790
190
100
510
299
364
557
293
300
670
305
670
586
307
318
600
294
568
620
284
280
140
140
100
379
443
380
19,500
20,100
17,700
483
609
572
1998r
Production 2/
1999r
2000p
1,000 cwt
1,000 cwt
1,000 cwt
6,120
542
506
2,066
82
51
8,643
586
496
2,316
86
54
6,960
362
960
1,730
54
28
53
62
9,420
12,243
1998r
Value of sales
1999r
2000p
1,000 dollars
1,000 dollars
1,000 dollars
79,560
8,234
5,852
26,723
1,237
778
40,553
2,257
3,994
15,590
332
208
68,765
2,466
9,054
15,862
371
190
38
746
215
233
10,132
123,130
63,149
96,941
r - revised, p - preliminary. 1/ Hundredweight (cwt) is equal to 100 pounds. 2/ Includes some quantities of storage crop onions harvested
but not sold because of shrink and waste.
Source: Oregon Agricultural Information Network (OAIN), Extension Economic Information Office, Oregon State University.
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