Cool-season vegetable growers have challenges

  • PICTURED ARE mild red onions in the ground. Around 7,000 of the Rio Grande Valley’s production acres are dedicated to onions bound for grocery stores throughout Texas, the Midwest and other parts of the country. Photo courtesy of Sam Craft/ Texas A&M AgriLife
    PICTURED ARE mild red onions in the ground. Around 7,000 of the Rio Grande Valley’s production acres are dedicated to onions bound for grocery stores throughout Texas, the Midwest and other parts of the country. Photo courtesy of Sam Craft/ Texas A&M AgriLife
  • PICTURED IS a mound of mild yellow onions in the production field. The Rio Grande Valley’s onion production is dedicated to grocery stores throughout Texas, the Midwest and other parts of the country. Photo courtesy of Sam Craft/ Texas A&M AgriLife
    PICTURED IS a mound of mild yellow onions in the production field. The Rio Grande Valley’s onion production is dedicated to grocery stores throughout Texas, the Midwest and other parts of the country. Photo courtesy of Sam Craft/ Texas A&M AgriLife
    Harvests continue for South Texas vegetable growers as irrigation shortages and persistent drought impact cool-season crop production, said Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service experts.Weather and the lack of water continue to be the story for producers in the Rio Grande Valley who grow a wide variety of cool-season horticultural crops, from herbs to kale, spinach and other leafy gre...

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