Keystone Fruit Marketing is beginning its Peruvian onion season, which represents the company’s largest commodity.

For the past 13 years, Shuman Farms has distributed special, pink RealSweet onion bags, display bins and POS during the month of October to support breast cancer awareness. Since 2009, the philanthropic-focused organization has donated more than $110,000 to those working to find a cure.

Goldies Onions, the no-tears, no-onion-breath onion that was introduced to consumers in 2020, captured three awards in the most-recent National Agricultural Marketing Association judging, including a first-place award in the 2021 National Best of NAMA competition and two regional awards.

Shuman Farms has RealSweet high-quality, premium sweet onions from Peru on hand and is currently making the transition from Vidalia to Peru. Shuman began growing sweet onions in Peru more than 20 years ago to meet the year-round consumer demand for premium sweet onions. Peru provides the ideal climate, soil and growing conditions, and allows retailers to keep premium sweet onions on shelf from September to March.

With a continuing focus on regional retail, Fagerberg Farms/Fagerberg Produce in Eaton, CO, kicked off the 2021 onion shipping season with its full slate of conventional varieties on Aug. 16, with organics to follow in September.

This week, Eagle Eye Produce, a top-tier fresh produce grower and shipper, will start shipping new crop yellow and red onions with new crop white onions to follow soon after from its onion facilities in western Idaho and eastern Oregon.

The annual onion harvest has begun once again for Eagle Eye Produce growers in the sunny, fertile Snake River Valley of Idaho and eastern Oregon and will continue into late September.