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Released May 2011
Seasonal                                                No. 987-5-11

                       POTATO STOCKS DECREASE




The 13 major potato States held 65.7 million cwt of potatoes in storage 
May 1, 2011, down 27 percent from a year ago. Potatoes in storage accounted
for 19 percent of the 2010 fall storage States' production, four percentage
points below May 1, 2010. Klamath Basin stocks totaled 520 thousand cwt on
May 1, 2011, down 32 percent from a year ago. Klamath Basin stocks include
potatoes stored in California and Klamath County, Oregon.

Potato disappearance, at 286 million cwt, was 3 percent below May 1, 2010.
Season-to-date shrink and loss, at 22.1 million cwt, was down 17 percent
from the same date in 2010.  

Processors in the 9 major States have used 144 million cwt of potatoes this
season, up 1 percent from the same period last year. Dehydrating usage
accounted for 22.7 million cwt of the total processing, down 15 percent
from last year.


	FALL POTATOES:  Production and Stocks on May 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]
State
                  Crop of 2009	                          Crop of 2010


                     Stocks  Percent                Stocks   StocksMay Percent
                      May 1,   of                   Apr. 1,   May1,      of
State   Production    2011  Production  Production  2011      2011   Production
	1,000 cwt.	     Percent   	1,000 cwt.	Percent

CA	3,960	      600 	15       2,280	     600         350     15
CO	22,080	    4,900 	22	21,528     7,200       4,300     20
ID     132,500	   38,500 	29     114,440	  42,500      30,000     26
ME	15,263      3,900 	26	15,892	   5,900       3,800     24
MI	15,660	      (D)      (D)	15,660	   2,300         900      6
MN	20,700	    4,800 	23	17,010	   5,500       3,300     19
MT	3,298	      700 	21       3,673	   2,000         500	 14
NE	8,756	    1,100 	13	 7,719	   2,100       1,100     14
NY	4,950	      (D)      (D)	 5,120	     500         200      4
ND	19,125	    3,300 	17	22,000	   5,900       3,700	 17
OR	21,460	    5,300 	25	20,058	   7,700       4,900	 24
WA	87,230	   22,300 	26	81,740	  17,800      10,300	 13
WI	28,980	    3,800 	13	24,293	   5,300       2,300	  9
							
Other
 States      -        410	(X)	     -	       -           -     (X)

13
 States	383,962	   89,610 	23     351,413    105,300      65,650     19

Klamath
 Basin2/   (NA)       770     (NA)        (NA)      1,200         520    (NA)
		
   - Represents zero.
  (D) Withheld to avoid disclosing data for individual operations.
  (NA) Not available.
  (X) Not applicable.
   1/ Missing stocks combined into "Other States."
   2/ Includes potato stocks in California and Klamath Co. Oregon.  Included in the 13 States total.