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POTATO REPORT
February 2008
Released February
2009 Seasonal
No. 987-2-09
NEW YORK POTATO STOCKS DECREASE
Potato stocks, held for all purposes on February 1, 2009 by New York growers, dealers, and processors, totaled 1.20 million hundredweight (cwt.), down 25 percent from last year according to Steve Ropel, Director of USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service, New York Field Office. Disappearance in January 2009 at 600,000 cwt., up 20 percent from last year. Storage accounted for 21 percent of the 2008 potato production, down 10 percent from a year ago.
The 13 major potato States held 183 million cwt of potatoes in storage February 1, 2009, down 8 percent from a year ago and 5 percent below February 1, 2007. Potatoes in storage accounted for 50 percent of the 2008 fall storage States' production, unchanged from February 1, 2008. Stocks by type were 3.4 percent red, 8.3 percent round white, 3.2 percent long white (Shepody), 1.7 percent yellows, and 83.4 percent russets.
Potato disappearance, at 185 million cwt, was 7 percent below February 1, 2008 and 6 percent below 2007. Season-to-date shrink and loss, at 16.9 million cwt, was down 8 percent from both the same date in 2008 and 2007.
Processors in the 9 major States have used 99.2 million cwt of potatoes this season, down 7 percent from the same period last year and down 8 percent from 2 years ago. Dehydrating usage accounted for 18.4 million cwt of the total processing, down 13 percent from last year and 22 percent below the same period in 2007.
FALL POTATOES: Production and Stocks on February 1, 2008-2009 1/
| State |
Crop of 2007 |
Crop of 2008 |
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| Production |
Stocks |
Percent |
Production |
Stocks |
Stocks |
February Percent of Production |
|
| 1,000 cwt. |
Percent |
1,000 cwt. |
Percent |
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| CA |
3,792 |
1,400 |
37 |
3,939 |
1,500 |
1,300 |
33 |
| CO |
20,981 |
11,200 |
53 |
21,338 |
14,500 |
12,500 |
59 |
| ID |
130,010 |
71,500 |
55 |
114,805 |
73,500 |
64,000 |
56 |
| ME |
16,668 |
9,700 |
58 |
14,769 |
10,000 |
8,500 |
58 |
| MI |
14,700 |
5,300 |
36 |
14,875 |
6,500 |
5,000 |
34 |
| MN 2/ |
21,560 |
9,900 |
46 |
20,400 |
11,800 |
10,600 |
52 |
| MT |
3,696 |
3,400 |
92 |
3,465 |
3,300 |
3,200 |
92 |
| NE 2/ |
8,217 |
3,700 |
45 |
8,342 |
4,700 |
4,000 |
48 |
| NY |
5,216 |
1,600 |
31 |
5,696 |
1,800 |
1,200 |
21 |
| ND |
23,660 |
10,000 |
42 |
22,680 |
12,500 |
10,300 |
45 |
| OR |
20,293 |
13,900 |
68 |
18,676 |
14,100 |
12,000 |
64 |
| WA |
100,800 |
43,800 |
43 |
93,000 |
43,800 |
38,600 |
42 |
| WI |
28,160 |
13,900 |
49 |
25,730 |
14,800 |
12,000 |
47 |
| 13 States |
397,753 |
199,300 |
50 |
367,715 |
212,800 |
183,200 |
50 |
| Klamath Basin 3/ |
2,700 |
3,300 |
2,800 |
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| 1/ Stocks include processor holdings and most of the seed to plant
the following year's crop. |
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