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Released April 2011
Seasonal                                                No. 987-4-11




                           POTATO STOCKS DECREASE




The 13 major potato States held 106 million cwt of potatoes in storage
April 1, 2011, down 18 percent from a year ago.  Potatoes in storage
accounted for 30 percent of the 2010 fall storage States' production, four
percentage points below April 1, 2010.  Klamath Basin stocks totaled 1.20
million cwt on April 1, 2011, down 8 percent from a year ago.  Klamath
Basin stocks include potatoes stored in California and Klamath County,
Oregon.



Potato disappearance, at 246 million cwt, was 4 percent below April 1,
2010.  Season-to-date shrink and loss, at 20.4 million cwt, was down 16
percent from the same date in 2010.



Processors in the 9 major States have used 127 million cwt of potatoes this
season, up 2 percent from the same period last year.  Dehydrating usage
accounted for 19.5 million cwt of the total processing, down 16 percent
from last year.

  FALL POTATOES:  Production and Stocks on April 1, 2010-2011

 [Stocks include processor holdings and most of the seed to plant following
 year’s crop.  Seed usage for all seasons in 2010 totaled 23.7 million cwt]


            Crop of 2009                     Crop of 2010
                    Stocks    Percent                   Stocks    April
         Production Apr. 1,     of    Production Mar. 1, Apr. 1, Percent of
  State              2010    Production          2011    2011   Production
              1,000 cwt.      Percent         1,000 cwt.          Percent

    CA        3,960      800    20       2,280     900     600     26

    CO       22,080   8,100     37      21,528   9,600   7,200     33

    ID      132,500  53,000     40     114,440  54,500  42,500     37

    ME       15,263   6,000     39      15,892   7,900   6,000     38

    MI       15,660   1,700     11      15,660   4,100   2,300     15

    MN       20,700   6,800     33      17,010   7,300   5,500     32

    MT        3,298   2,100     64       3,673   3,100   2,200     60

    NE        8,756   2,200     25       7,719   3,000   2,100     27

    NY        4,950     500     10       5,120     800     500     10

    ND       19,125   5,000     26      22,000   8,100   5,900     27

    OR       21,460   8,000     37      20,058  10,100   7,700     38

    WA       87,230  27,100     31      81,740  25,700  17,800     22

    WI       28,980   7,400     26      24,293   8,100   5,300     22
     13
  States    383,962 128,700     34     351,413 143,200 105,600     30


 Klamath
 Basin 1/      (NA)    1,300   (NA)    (NA)     1,800    1,200    (NA)

(NA) Not available

1/   Includes potato stocks in California and Klamath Co. Oregon.  Included
in the 13 State totals.