High demand good for Sweet Clover reds, yellows and sweets
High demand good for Sweet Clover reds, yellows and sweets
Demand for onions is high going into the holidays and new year, and Sweet Clover Produce Sales Manager Bill (Sweet Willie) Brownfield said his Walla Walla, WA-based sales office was seeing brisk movement in its Red Wing reds as well as its yellow hybrid and sweet onions.
Known for its high percentage of single-center red onions, Sweet Clover Produce of Walla Walla, WA, is now shipping 2013 Red Wings grown by Lorin Grigg in Quincy, WA. (Photo courtesy of Sweet Clover Produce)“Right now demand exceeds supply,” Brownfield said on Nov. 14, referring to the overall onion market. Sweet Clover, which is known for its Red Wings, grown in Quincy, WA, by Lorin Grigg, expects to have good supplies of the single-center reds into spring 2013. Brownfield said the company also has steady supplies of the yellows and sweets.
“Based on information from the National Onion Association, stocks are lower [nationwide],” he said. “All indicators are for good movement and strong pricing. The market should be good this season.”
In addition to the onions now available, Sweet Clover Produce also supplies the famed Walla Walla Sweets during the June to September window, and the company’s “family” of growers produces organic yellows and reds and conventional reds, whites and yellows.
Sweet Clover is Primus-certified, and GSI Bar codes are on every onion sticker. Sheds are in compliance with state and federal food-safety protocol.
A vertically-integrated onion grower/shipper/marketer, Sweet Clover provides a year-round sweet onion program, and pack options including Carry-Fresh mesh consumer bags available in 2-, 3- and 5-pound sizes, as well as 25-pound specialty pack carton.
