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  • From: "Bill Shoemaker" <wshoemak AT inil.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Peddlers at Markets
  • Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 08:22:25 -0600


>
>I was selling next to a very nice young couple who had Vidalia onions at
our
>eastern Illinois market and told customers they were locally grown. These
>onions were huge. Being an ass, I walked over and said, "You can't grow a
>Vidalia this size in Illinois. You didn't grow these and you know it."
>(right in front of the customers) They don't sell next to me anymore.
They
>don't speak to me either.
>
>Del Williams
>Farmer in the Del
>Clifton IL


There is a legally defined region in Georgia where Vidalia onions can be
grown. Onions grown outside of that region cannot be called Vidalia's.
Anyone who does so violates a court ruling. Georgia is a long way from
Kankakee. Besides, you can't grow short-day onions (Vidalia onions are
short-day types) in northern Illinois anyway.

Bill Shoemaker
Sr Research Specialist, Food Crops
Univ of Illinois - St Charles Hort Research Center





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