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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Contact:  Greg Lemmons
Thursday, December 16, 2010

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                                        NEW YORK POTATO STOCKS DOWN

  	Potato stocks, held for all purposes on December 1, 2010 by New York growers, dealers, and processors, 
totaled 2.30 million hundredweight (cwt.), down from the 2.40 million cwt. held a year ago. Storage accounted for 
48 percent of the 2010 potato crop, the same as last year.

	The 13 major potato States held 232 million cwt of potatoes in storage December 1, 2010, down 3 
percent from a year ago.  Potatoes in storage accounted for 66 percent of the 2010 fall storage States' production, 
three percentage points below December 1, 2009.  
                                                                                
	Potato disappearance, at 119 million cwt, was 1 percent above December 1, 2009.  Season-to-date 
shrink and loss, at 12.5 million cwt, was down 13 percent from the same date in 2009.  
                                                                                
	Processors in the 9 major states have used 63.5 million cwt of potatoes this season, up 4 percent from the 
same period last year.  Dehydrating usage accounted for 7.86 million cwt of the total processing, down 28 percent 
from last year.  




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