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- From: "Bill Shoemaker" <wshoemak AT inil.com>
- To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: Re: Vidalias sold in Illinois
- Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 13:33:16 -0600
-----Original Message-----
From: Del Williams <delannw AT dlogue.net>
To: Market Farming <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Date: Friday, February 09, 2001 9:26 AM
Subject: Vidalias sold in Illinois
>My point exactly Bill. Ya can't grow 'em in Illinois. That's why I had to
>go off on that vendor. This gives the market a bad name to the informed
>consumer who comes to the market. Next thing you know we'll see Texas
>1015's. I will point out the law on this at our next market meeting. You
>wouldn't happen to have a reference for me on this would you?
Sorry Del. I just read about the trial in The Packer a couple of years ago.
I don't keep that periodical. I'll see what I can do to find one for you.
>
>And to compound this problem locally, there have been retail stores selling
>"Vidalia onion sets" the last two springs. We got some calls at the
>extension info desk about growing "failures" because, of course, they don't
>grow to size because of day length.
That's interesting. There are local onion set producers who grow the Vidalia
sets exclusively for the Georgia trade but that's a different process than
growing them out to bulbs.
>
>I did visit one of the retailers and told him that he ought to advise his
>customers about it. I suggested that he put a sign on them about day
length
>and tell them they would only mature to large bulbed scallions. He said,
>"buyer beware" that's what his supplier sends him.
They may not even be the Grano 33's that are what Vidalia growers use.
Free enterprise = PT Barnum economics.
>Del Williams
>Farmer in the Del
>Clifton IL
>
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Vidalias sold in Illinois,
Del Williams, 02/09/2001
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- Re: Vidalias sold in Illinois, Bill Shoemaker, 02/09/2001
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