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Georgia onion crop

USDA last rated the 2025 Georgia onion crop for the week ending May 4, when 74% was good or excellent. Harvest stood at 95% complete (five-year average 99%).

Last rated week ending May 4, 2025

Good to excellent · last reading

74%of the crop

Share of the 2025 crop rated good or excellent for the week ending May 4.

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95%

Harvested

−4 points against the five-year pace of 99%.

Analysis

Week ending May 3 — 21 weeks ago

Georgia onion condition trails last year's pace

USDA rated Georgia's onion crop for the week ending May 3, 2026 — the most recent reading published for the state. Good-to-excellent stood at 62%, down 3 points from the prior week and well behind last year's 74% at the same point; 8% of the crop was rated poor. Transplanting had lagged earlier in the season, reaching just 19% by late November versus a five-year average of 36% and 46% last year. By the week ending June 7, harvest was nearly complete at 96%, close to the five-year average of 100% and last year's 99%.

This is the most recent reading USDA has published for this crop and state; it is not a current-week rating.

Written from USDA data and source reports

Weekly ratings

Crop condition, 2025

Bars are the full USDA rating split each week. The dashed line is the five-year average for good plus excellent; the dotted line is last year.

2026202520242023202220212020
Georgia onion crop condition, 20250%25%50%75%100%Week ending Apr 6: Very poor 0%, Poor 0%, Fair 18%, Good 75%, Excellent 7% — good+excellent 82% (5-yr avg 69%, last year 82%)Week ending Apr 13: Very poor 0%, Poor 0%, Fair 25%, Good 70%, Excellent 5% — good+excellent 75% (5-yr avg 69%, last year 82%)Week ending Apr 20: Very poor 0%, Poor 0%, Fair 20%, Good 70%, Excellent 10% — good+excellent 80% (5-yr avg 74%, last year 82%)Week ending Apr 27: Very poor 0%, Poor 0%, Fair 23%, Good 65%, Excellent 12% — good+excellent 77% (5-yr avg 73%, last year 80%)Week ending May 4: Very poor 0%, Poor 0%, Fair 26%, Good 61%, Excellent 13% — good+excellent 74% (5-yr avg —, last year —)Harvest begins — week ending Apr 6Harvest begins−7 pts — week ending Apr 13−7 ptsApr 6Apr 13Apr 20Apr 27May 4
Very poorPoorFairGoodExcellent5-yr avg good+excellentLast year

Latest: 74% good or excellent, week ending May 4. Hover a bar for the full breakdown.

Field progress

Harvested, 2025

This season against the five-year average pace and last year.

Georgia onion harvested, 20250%50%100%Harvested, week ending Apr 6: 3% (5-yr avg 7%, last year 3%)Harvested, week ending Apr 13: 10% (5-yr avg 17%, last year 12%)Harvested, week ending Apr 20: 25% (5-yr avg 31%, last year 30%)Harvested, week ending Apr 27: 38% (5-yr avg 48%, last year 53%)Harvested, week ending May 4: 58% (5-yr avg 68%, last year 73%)Harvested, week ending May 11: 78% (5-yr avg 81%, last year 84%)Harvested, week ending May 18: 85% (5-yr avg 91%, last year 92%)Harvested, week ending May 25: 89% (5-yr avg 97%, last year 96%)Harvested, week ending Jun 1: 95% (5-yr avg 99%, last year 99%)Apr 6Apr 20May 4May 18Jun 1
This year5-yr avgLast year

Harvested: 95% as of Jun 1 (5-yr avg 99%).

Source: USDA NASS Crop Progress (weekly, April–November) and Crop Production reports. This product uses the NASS API but is not endorsed or certified by NASS.

Updated September 29, 2026

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