mn-press-releases MINNESOTA AG NEWS USDA, NASS MN Dept of Agriculture MINNESOTA FIELD OFFICE PO Box 7068, St. Paul, MN 55107 Douglas Hartwig, Director Phone: (651) 296-2230 Homepage: http://www.nass.usda.gov/mn/ E-mail: nass-mn@nass.usda.gov --------------------------------------------------------------------------- POTATO STOCKS Released: January 24, 2008 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- MINNESOTA POTATO STOCKS 1 PERCENT BELOW 2007 LEVEL January 1 Stocks: Minnesota’s fall potatoes in storage totaled 11.5 million hundredweight, 1 percent below the January 1, 2007 level, according to the USDA, NASS, Minnesota Field Office. The breakdown of January 1, 2008 stocks by type indicate 12 percent red, 5 percent white and 83 percent russet. Stocks in Area 1 totaled 2.2 million hundredweight, down 24 percent from 2007 and stocks in Area 2 totaled 9.3 million hundredweight, up 7 percent from 2007. MINNESOTA FALL POTATO STOCKS Jan. 1, 2007 Jan. 1, 2008 Stocks Percent Stocks Percent 2006 Crop of Total 2007 Crop of Total Type (000) Cwt Stocks (000) Cwt Stocks Red 1,280 11 1,380 12 White1 690 6 580 5 Russet 9,630 83 9,540 83 Total 11,600 100 11,500 100 1/ Yellow type potatoes are included in White type. MINNESOTA FALL POTATO STOCKS BY REGION Jan. 1, 2007 Jan. 1, 2008 Stocks Percent Stocks Percent 2006 Crop of Total 2007 Crop of Total Type (000) Cwt Stocks (000) Cwt Stocks MN Area 1 2,900 25 2,200 19 MN Area 2 8,700 75 9,300 81 State Total 11,600 100 11,500 100 NOTE: Minnesota Area 1 includes the following counties: Kittson, Roseau, Lake of the Woods, Marshall, Beltrami, Pennington, Polk, Red Lake, Mahnomen, Norman, Clearwater, Clay, Becker and Wilkin counties. Minnesota Area 2 includes all remaining counties in the State. Potato Stocks Up 5 Percent from Last Year The 13 major potato States held 238 million cwt of potatoes in storage January 1, 2008, up 5 percent from last year and 8 percent above January 1, 2006. Potatoes in storage account for 59 percent of the 2007 fall storage States’ production, up 1 percentage point from last year. Klamath Basin stocks totaled 3.40 million cwt on January 1, 2008, unchanged from last year. Klamath Basin includes California and Klamath County, Oregon potato stocks. Potato disappearance, at 163 million cwt, is down slightly from last year but up 6 percent from 2006. Season to date shrink and loss, at 16.0 million cwt, is down 1 percent from the same date in 2007 but 7 percent above 2 years ago. Processors in the 9 major States have used 87.7 million cwt of potatoes this season, down 4 percent from a year ago but 8 percent above 2 years ago. Dehydrating usage accounts for 16.7 million cwt of the total processing, down 13 percent from last year but 7 percent above the same date in 2006. Fall Potatoes: Production and Stocks on January 1, 2007-20081 Crop of 2006 Crop of 2007 Stocks Stocks Stocks Stocks Jan % Dec. 1, Jan. 1, Dec. 1, Jan. 1, Of State Production 2006 2007 Production 2007 2008 Production 1,000 Cwt 1,000 Cwt 1,000 Cwt 1,000 Cwt 1,000 Cwt 1,000 Cwt Percent CA 3,870 1,800 1,500 4,223 2,000 1,600 38 CO 22,686 17,200 15,200 20,981 15,200 13,200 63 ID 128,915 90,000 80,000 131,650 94,000 84,000 64 ME 17,980 14,400 12,800 16,530 12,700 11,300 68 MI 14,190 8,100 6,300 14,700 9,500 7,400 50 MN 20,400 13,300 11,600 20,680 13,500 11,500 56 MT 3,518 3,300 3,300 3,696 3,600 3,500 95 NE 2 8,730 5,800 4,900 7,800 5,200 4,500 56 NY 5,700 3,000 2,200 5,216 2,800 1,900 36 ND 25,480 17,300 15,000 23,660 14,500 12,500 53 OR 18,533 16,000 13,900 20,238 18,000 16,100 80 WA 89,900 49,000 42,500 102,300 60,000 54,000 53 WI 29,370 20,100 16,900 28,160 19,000 16,000 57 13 Sts2 389,272 259,300 226,100 399,834 270,000 237,500 59 Klamath Basin 3 4,000 3,400 4,200 3,400 1 Stocks include processor holdings and most of the seed to plant the following year’s crop. Seed usage for all seasonsin 2007 totaled 26.4 million cwt. 2 December 1, 2007, stocks revised. 3 Includes potato stocks in CA and Klamath Co. OR.