Gold In Them Thar Onions

New Mexico Business Journal, Sept, 2001

Big onions, it seems, are better than little onions, at least in terms of price to growers. In Dona Ana and Luna Counties, whence New Mexico onions largely come, the onion season, which ended in July, saw prices that were "fair to good," thanks to a lack of rain that left dry fields and helped produced first-rate onions.

For those who understand such things, we can report that a 50- pound sack of large yellow granos fetched $15 to $18, $10 for white varieties and about $8 for red globe varieties, which are sold in 25-pound sacks. Onion production value for the last few years has ranged between $43 million and $52 million. Should be on the higher side this year.