FTC. There appears to be no information on how many individual onion growers are producing onions in the…

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There appears to be no information on how many individual onion growers are producing onions in the seventeen state area mentioned in my prior letter or how much tonage these onion growers are producing on an individual basis. This is not public information and apparently the statistics are not being gathered by any organization. Again I would reiterate that I and members of the committee of the National Onion Association would be happy to come to Washington, D.C. to meet with you and fully explain the concept that we are hoping to evolve.

Thank you for your assistance in this matter. Yours truly, /s/ Jerry C. Daniel First Supplemental Letter Relative to Request April 18, 1977 Dear Mr. Sheehan:

This is in reply to your telephone request of Monday, April 11, 1977. The information that I am furnishing you is the best that can be developed by the National Onion Association at this time, but we feel is relatively accurate.

There are seventeen states which are onion producers of both the storage and non-storage onions. Some other states grow small quantities of onions but do not ship them out of state and are not counted in our tabulation.

Of the seventeen states growing storage and non-storage onions, there are 93,962 planted acres. Of these, 38,834 acres are actually \ planted by NOA members — or 41%. The amount of onions handled by \ NOA members, however, is 72.4%.

‘ NOA data does not show how many growers of onions there are in ithe United States and we do not believe it is possible to determine this number with any accuracy.

' The areas that have marketing orders and the purpose of the orders are as follows:

Idaho —. East Oregon — Promotion of specific onion and research.

Michigan — Research
New York — Research
Texas — Quality control

National Onion Association cannot go to onion growers directly to raise funds for promotion and advertising purposes because of the logistics impossibility. NOA has neither the manpower nor the money to effect a campaign which would contact the growers. advise them of