"Mark Thorson" > ha scritto nel messaggio

> For months and months, the price of white onions at> my nearby Asian food
> store has been a stratospheric> $1.99/lb, but today I noticed it had
> finally dropped> to $0.99/lb. The last time this was discussed, it was>
> said a price drop was imminent when the California
> crop kicked in, but that was something like two months> ago. I can live
> without white onions, but I wonder> what sustained the price for so long,
> and what> triggered the recent price drop? It must be tough> to be an
> onion farmer, with such >widely varying prices.

I think you'll find the farmer sold his crop while it was still in the
ground or even before he planted it. I can't speak to your circumstances,
but we had onion problems here. Onions that normally get dried out and kept
for the entire year developed blackening and rotting in inner layers and had
to be thrown out. Some kind of disease, I suppose. It meant there was a
shortage of a necessity.