With onion harvest in full swing, AgSource Laboratories in Umatilla has its hands full testing samples for pungency.
Debbie Payton has never liked onions. She didn’t eat them growing up, and she won’t eat them now.
Which is unfortunate, since it’s her job to find out just how pungent onions are.
The smell is predictably powerful inside AgSource Laboratories in Umatilla, where Payton diligently peels, cores, mixes and mashes onion samples from across the country for testing. Farmers request pungency tests around harvest time as a marketing tool for their produce.
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