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Crop tour Onions - Week 39

Rain game breaker in the tail of the onion harvest

26 September 2022 - Robin de Winter

October is approaching and more and more onion growers are finishing the onion harvest. Last week (week 38) the weather gave the opportunity to dry the onions inside, but that is no longer the case this week. 

Reinder Hogenhout from Kimswerd (Fr) loaded the last onions in the country on Sunday evening. On Thursday he started in the red onions, but that was not without a struggle. He harvested in wet conditions, leaving some soil in the swath on the heavier soils. He started on the yellow onions on Saturday, but a small shower threw a spanner in the works. In the night from Saturday to Sunday, another 5 millimeters of precipitation came over it. Due to enough sun and wind, he was able to drive again at half past one on Sunday and around midnight (photo above) the last onions were left in the country. Hogenhout is satisfied with the yield. Red it is around 50 tons and yellow around 60 tons. He watered all the onions twice. Now 20 hectares of ware potatoes are still waiting to be harvested.

Loading red onions at Reinder Hogenhout in Kimswerd (Fr).
Loading red onions from Reinder Hogenhout in Kimswerd (Fr).
Loading red onions at Reinder Hogenhout in Kimswerd (Fr).
Loading red onions at Reinder Hogenhout in Kimswerd (Fr).
Loading yellow onions at Reinder Hogenhout in Kimswerd (Fr).
Loading yellow onions at Reinder Hogenhout in Kimswerd (Fr).

In Wezup (Dr) at Arjen Jakobs, the onion harvest is not that far yet. He was busy harvesting this weekend, but it rained out. The head packers are harvested and Jakobs wants to charge them before continuing to harvest. At the end of the week, Jakobs expects that the harvest can be picked up again, but he still has three to four harvest days ahead of him. Jakobs is not in a hurry, one of his yellow onion fields is green and he thinks he will be ready for onions in the first or second week of October. 

Onion harvesting combination of Arjen Jakobs from Wezup (Dr). 

Martijn Derikx from Ysselsteyn has already stored the last onions on 13 September and was busy sowing winter onions on Sunday. Derikx found this year's yield very variable, but he couldn't complain. Harvesting and loading went well due to the beautiful weather. This year he is doing a trial with winter onions on half a hectare with onion seed of the Panther variety. Now Derikx is busy with peonies, the harvest of these continues through the onion season and is also coming to an end.

Martijn Derikx from Ysselsteyn (L) who sowed his winter onions on Sunday 25 September. 
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Robin Winter

Intern at the Boerenbusiness Crop tour

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