Andrea Polanco
“So, this essentially means that you as a wholesaler your customers are not buying because they can’t retail it?”
“Yes that’s the situation, yes.
There are vehicles coming with one hundred and fifty sacks and in a week time they bring two trips and that is about three hundred sacks in the market – so that is about three hundred less
that we do sell and that is a problem for us.”
These farmers have one hundred and forty-thousand pounds of onions stored. These are produce that the farmers must sell off in three weeks time. That’s because their season should be wrapping up and it is time to import onions to supply the market. But right now, these farmers are worried that they will suffer massive losses this season
dodged the worst of this. others in louisiana were picking their crop yesterday ahead of the polar plunge. we just spoke with an onion farmer in southern georgia. he s worried tonight as another night with low temperatures. the impact on his crop, he won t be able to see that for another few weeks. now, this is also affecting travelers throughout the south and it s also affecting just people aren t used to these types of temperatures in parts of the south and power outages, we ve seen a lot of them both yesterday and today. tens of thousands of power outages in south carolina. we re told that the blackouts happening there have just been suspended by the energy company. things are starting to get back to normal. in atlanta, we re expecting to see temperatures rising to the 20s this afternoon but we won t crack the freezing mark until tomorrow afternoon. so can t really complain here. the midwest is getting hit a lot harder than we are and that s