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POTATOES
Released March 2009
Seasonal
No. 987-3-09
NEW YORK POTATO STOCKS DECREASE
Potato stocks, held for all purposes on March 1, 2009 by New York growers, dealers, and processors, totaled 800,000 hundredweight (cwt.), down 33 percent from last year according to Steve Ropel, Director of USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service, New York Field Office. Storage accounted for 14 percent of the 2008 potato production, down from 23 percent a year ago.
The 13 major potato States held 151 million cwt of potatoes in storage March 1, 2009, down 8 percent from a year ago and 5 percent below March 1, 2007. Potatoes in storage accounted for 41 percent of the 2008 fall storage States' production, slightly below March 1, 2008. Klamath Basin stocks totaled 2.00 million cwt on March 1, 2009, down 2 percent from a year ago. Klamath Basin stocks include potatoes stored in California and Klamath County, Oregon.
Potato disappearance, at 217 million cwt, was 8 percent below March 1, 2008 and down 6 percent from 2007. Season-to-date shrink and loss, at 18.7 million cwt, was down 7 percent from the same date in 2008 and 8 percent below 2007.
Processors in the 9 major States have used 117 million cwt of potatoes this season, down 8 percent from the same period last year and down 8 percent from 2 years ago. Dehydrating usage accounted for 21.5 million cwt of the total processing, down 15 percent from last year and 23 percent below the same period in 2007.
FALL POTATOES: Production and Stocks on March 1, 2008-2009 1/
| State |
Crop of 2007 |
Crop of 2008 |
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| Production |
Stocks March 1, 2008 |
Percent of Production |
Production |
Stocks March 1, 2009 |
Percent of Production |
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| 1,000 cwt. |
Percent |
1,000 cwt. |
Percent |
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| CA |
3,729 |
1,100 |
29 |
3,939 |
1,000 |
25 |
| CO |
20,981 |
9,500 |
45 |
21,338 |
10,900 |
51 |
| ID |
130,010 |
60,500 |
47 |
114,805 |
54,000 |
47 |
| ME |
16,668 |
8,000 |
48 |
14,769 |
7,100 |
48 |
| MI |
14,700 |
3,700 |
25 |
14,875 |
3,500 |
24 |
| MN |
21,560 |
8,200 |
38 |
20,400 |
8,700 |
43 |
| MT |
3,696 |
3,100 |
84 |
3,465 |
3,000 |
87 |
| NE |
8,217 |
3,000 |
37 |
8,342 |
3,500 |
42 |
| NY |
5,216 |
1,200 |
23 |
5,696 |
800 |
14 |
| ND |
23,660 |
8,000 |
34 |
22,680 |
8,100 |
36 |
| OR |
20,293 |
11,600 |
57 |
18,676 |
9,800 |
52 |
| WA |
100,800 |
35,400 |
35 |
93,000 |
31,400 |
34 |
| WI |
28,160 |
10,100 |
36 |
25,730 |
9,200 |
36 |
| 13 States |
397,753 |
163,400 |
41 |
367,715 |
151,000 |
41 |
| Klamath Basin 2/ |
2,050 |
2,000 |
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Stocks include processor holdings and most of the seed to plant
following year's crop. |
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| 2/ Includes potato stocks in CA and Klamath Co. OR. |
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S.C. Ropel, B.L. Smith, W.G.Lemmons, Statisticians
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