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The Red & Black | Wednesday, March 5, 2003 | 5
Vidalia crop experiences sweet relief
By BRAD HARRiSON
bharrison@randb.com
The word Vidalia will con
jure up sweeter thoughts this
spring as the Vidalia onion
crop has rallied from a rough
beginning.
“It’s looking real good, espe
cially in the last two to three
weeks since we have had
warmer temperatures,” said
Reid Torrance, University
Extension Service county
agent in Tattnall County. “We
started with a puny crop
because it was cold.”
Torrance said cold temper-
helped the valuable crop.
Harvesting of the Vidalia
onions is expected to begin
within the next four to six
weeks.
“At this point I feel pretty
good about the crop from the
way it started out,” Torrance
said. “We’re on line for an
average season.”
Torrance said due to a por
tion of the Vidalia onion crop
being planted in January and
February as opposed to
November and December,
many of this year’s onions
wouldn’t be the four-inch
diameter jumbo size, but
detrimental effect on the
Vidalia onions.
He said the vegetation on
the top of the onions, when
met with the colder tempera
tures, reacts in such a way that
it takes food from the bulb of
the onion. This occurrence
takes away from the value of
the onions by the time they
become ripe in the spring,
causing damage.
This damage crippled the
Vidalia onion crop last year.
“It can’t get any worse than
it was last year,” Boyhan said.
“Disease hurt a lot of growers.
We probably lost one third of
significant effect are minimal,”
he said. “Historically speaking,
we just don’t have brutally
cold temperatures in March.”
The Vidalia onion is a
yellow Granex onion grown in
a 20-county region of south
eastern Georgia.
They are distinguished
from normal onions by their
sweet and mild flavor, a
product of soil with low
sulfur levels, specific irrigation
techniques and the mild
winters of southeastern
Georgia.
dan McLaughlin i the red & black
▲ Mitch Merck, assistant produce manager of the
Kroger off of Atlanta Highway, points to a yellow
onion. Merck said the Vidalias “typically do not
come in until mid-March or early April.”
atures in November and
December hampered the crop
— an $80 million a year crop in
Georgia — causing lack of
growth and delays in planting.
But, warmer temperatures
in the last few weeks have
rather two and a half inches.
George Boyhan, an exten
sion horticulturalist with
the University’s College
of Agricultural and
Environmental Sciences, said
cold temperatures have a
our crop.”
In the next four weeks the
crop will be susceptible to
damaging cold, but Torrance
said he didn’t expect it to have
much of an effect.
“The odds of cold having a
Reed returns to University
By KATIE REETZ
kreetz@randb.com
Republican Party Chairman Ralph Reed
will speak to the College Republicans tonight
about the powerful position of conservative
leadership in the government.
As the former executive director of the
Christian Coalition — the largest conservative
grassroots organization in the county — Reed
advocates traditional Christian values.
During his tenure as director, the Christian
Coalition’s budget grew from $200,000 to $27
million, according to the Georgia Republican
Party’s Web site (www.gagop.org).
Kelley Binion, president of the College
Republicans, said she is looking forward to
Reed’s speech.
“Dr. Reed is a motivating speaker that can
really encourage a crowd to leave a room look
ing for ways in which they can begin working
for upcoming elections,” she said.
Tonight’s speech will be a return to familiar
territory for the political leader — Reed
received a B.A. in History from the University
before completing his doctoral work in
American History at Emory.
Named one of the top political newsmakers
in the nation by Newsweek, Reed has
utilized his work with the
Republican Party to
encourage grassroots
efforts.
Reed took over as
chairman of the Georgia
Republican Party in
spring of 2001 and
launched the Georgia
Volunteer Leadership
program.
The program, which has
trained more than REED
2,000 people, teaches citizens how to launch
successful grassroots campaigns.
Linda Ingram, assistant to Reed,
confirmed that he will step down from his post
as Republican Party chairman in May to assist
President Bush’s re-election efforts.
Ingram said the capacity in which Reed
would assist the president has yet to be deter
mined, but he said that in 2000 Reed was a
consultant for Bush’s campaign.
Reed will speak at 7:30 tonight in Room 137
of the Tate Student Center.
The event is free and open to the public
and is expected to last about an hour.
It will be followed by a question and
answer session.
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