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Vidalia® Onion Committee Announces Award Winners
February 13, 2007. Vidalia, GA. The Vidalia® Onion Committee at its annual industry banquet February 2nd announced the 2007 award recipients for Grower of the Year and Hall of Fame. This year?s awards ceremony was uniquely poignant, as the awards went to a father-son duo that has had significant impact on the Vidalia industry. Mr. Rodney ?R.T.? Stanley, Jr., was awarded 2007 Grower of the Year and his father, Rodney Taylor Stanley, Sr., was posthumously inducted into the industry Hall of Fame.
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Vidalia Goes Organic
For most Georgians, the name "Vidalia" provokes an immediate response: "onion."
And that's just the way Southern Georgia onion growers like it, though there is an emerging addition to that word association game: "organic." This is a natural evolution in the marketing of a crop industry experts say contributes some $200 million annually to the Georgia economy.
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