Idaho-Eastern Oregon Onion Committee sets dates for VIP Tour
The Idaho-Eastern Oregon Onion Committee is now taking applications for this year’s Onion Country VIP Tour, which has been scheduled for Oct. 5-7 in the Treasure Valley.
Airfare, lodging, meals and group ground transportation are being provided to selected buyers, who will be met at the Boise, ID, airport on Thursday, Oct. 5, and taken to Ontario, OR, and their lodging. An industry dinner will be hosted by the committee that night.
A preliminary agenda has been set for Friday, Oct. 6, and includes visits to several Treasure Valley onion packingsheds where buyers will meet with shippers and sales staff. In addition buyers will be taken to a number of onion fields where harvest is taking place. The committee will also host a Friday industry luncheon at midday and a dinner that evening.
The VIPs have the option on Saturday to arrange for a continued stay, or they will be provided with transportation to the Boise airport for their return flights. VIPs who stay over will be treated to a Boise State University football game.
For more information, contact Idaho-Eastern Oregon Onion Committee Executive Director Candi Fitch at 208/722-5111, or [email protected].
Photo: Buyers who participated in the 2022 Idaho-Eastern Oregon Onion Country VIP Tour were given tours of both packingsheds and fields being harvested and met with sales staffs at several facilities.
Kathleen Thomas Gaspar
About Kathleen Thomas Gaspar | 
Kathleen is a Colorado native and has been writing about produce for more than three decades and has been a professional journalist for more than four decades. Over the years she’s covered a cornucopia of crops grown both in the United States and abroad, and she’s visited dozens of states – traveling by car from her home base in Colorado to the Northwest and Southeast, as far as Vancouver, BC, and Homestead, FL. Now semi-retired, Kathleen continues to write about produce and is also penning an ongoing series of fiction novels. She’s a wife, mother of two grown sons and grandmother of six, and she and her fly fisherman husband Abe reside in the Banana Belt town of Cañon City.
