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The more you know: Farmer Shay Myers, the CEO of Owyhee Produce, has gone viral for his video explaining why they store onions for about eight or nine months 

In the clip, he can be seen standing in a massive storage unit surrounded by thousands of harvested onions. 
'Why are fruits and vegetables put in storage in the United States? Well, we live in North America, guys,' he said. 'We're not close to the equator. We have to store our fruits and vegetables so that we have them later. They're not always a year old.'
Myers went on to explain that if you buy an onion at the grocery store in the first few weeks of October, it is 'coming straight out of the field' whereas they rely on stored produce from November through mid-April. 
'Your onions have to come out of a big storage like this one behind us so that we can continue to supply you so that you can have food to eat,' he said. 'Otherwise, everything would have to come from South America.'
Myers, who lives on the border of Oregon and Idaho, where his farm is loca[url=#]
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Explainer: Myers said root vegetables have to be stored in North America to be used later because the continent is not close enough to the equator to harvest onions year round 


































Going viral: The video has been viewed more than four million times, and many people admitted they were unaware that onions were stored for this long 

'The reason that I did it initially is I had made some commentary earlier about how long onions store and how we store onions for seven, eight and nine months,' he said. 'Someone responded, "Well, you mean my onions are a year old?"'     
The farmer's TikTok struck a chord with viewers, which led to the clip's increasing popularity over the past month.  
'A few people showed a lot of interest in it,' he said.

'They showed it to a few more and they showed interest in it. It just exploded.' 
The educational video has been viewed millions of times since it was posted in Octo[url=]