White hot onions

The Packer's Andy Nelson provides the outlook for the white hot white onion market in this report. The USDA reveals prices in late January of $29-33 for 50-pound sacks of jumbo whites, about four times the price at the same time last year. Marketers predict strong white onion prices for the next couple of months. Here is a spreadsheet showing the rapid rise in Idaho-eastern Oregon white onions in recent weeks.