Keystone Fruit Marketing began marketing and selling Vidalia Onions in the ’80s and provides its customers with authentic sweet onions 52 weeks a year.

The company grows, packs, ships, and markets sweet onions from various geographical locations to provide customers with the best sweet onions it can find.

Tina J. Collins was enjoying a successful career in fresh produce production and marketing when she decided to build on her career and establish herself as major player in the Vidalia onion space.

Since 2008, her company, Vidalia Sweet Produce, LLC has earned a reputation as an outstanding woman-owned farming corporation that specializes in the production, shipping and sales of Vidalia sweet onions, and also deals in watermelons and Vidalia sweet potatoes.

The Georgia Department of Agriculture and the Vidalia Onion Committee announced that the pack date for the 2021 season is April 19. The organizations are also celebrating the 35th anniversary of legislation that helped to make Vidalia onions beloved by millions of fans across the country. A rite of spring for its legends of devotees, the announcement of the pack date means shoppers will soon be able to purchase Vidalia onions, which are only available for a limited time each year.

Operating in the center of the Vidalia growing region in southeast Georgia, Shuman Farms is a second-generation grower-packer-shipper of Vidalia sweet onions. President and CEO John Shuman, who was recently named the Vidalia Onion Committee’s 2020 Grower of the Year, notes that of the industry’s 10,000 total acres of Vidalia onions for 2021, Shuman Farms overall acreage will be 2,200.

Generation Farms, grower-shipper of conventional as well as organic fruits and vegetables, is expanding its export network to serve markets in the Middle East. Generation Farms is now available to fresh food distributors in the United Arab Emirates.

Whoever said you can’t improve on perfection didn’t know Bland Farms.

Pioneer of the Vidalia sweet onion and international leader in the category, Bland Farms has been family owned and operated for over  70 years. This year, Bland continues to stay out in front, representing roughly 25 percent of the entire Vidalia crop and leading innovation in the industry.

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