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POTATO REPORT
April 2009
Seasonal
No. 987-4-09
NEW YORK POTATO STOCKS DECREASE
Potato stocks, held for all purposes on April 1, 2009 by New York growers, dealers, and processors, totaled 450,000 hundredweight (cwt.), down 10 percent from last year according to Steve Ropel, Director of USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service, New York Field Office. The estimated disappearance for March 2009 at 350,000 cwt., is down from 700,000 a year ago. Storage accounted for 8 percent of the 2009 potato production, down 2 points from a year ago.
The 13 major potato States held 115 million cwt of potatoes in storage April 1, 2009, down 9 percent from a year ago and 5 percent below April 1, 2007. Potatoes in storage accounted for 31 percent of the 2008 fall storage States' production, slightly below April 1, 2008. Klamath Basin stocks totaled 1.45 million cwt on April 1, 2009, up 26 percent from a year ago. Klamath Basin stocks include potatoes stored in California and Klamath County, Oregon.
Potato disappearance, at 253 million cwt, was 7 percent below April 1, 2008 and down 6 percent from 2007. Season-to-date shrink and loss, at 20.6 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 134 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 24.9 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, 13 Major States,
April 1, 2008-2009 1/
| State |
Crop of 2007 |
Crop of 2008 |
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| Production |
Stocks |
Percent |
Production |
Stocks |
Stocks |
April Percent of Production |
|
| 1,000 cwt. |
Percent |
1,000 cwt. |
Percent |
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| CA |
3,792 |
600 |
16 |
3,939 |
1,000 |
800 |
20 |
| CO |
20,981 |
7,500 |
36 |
21,338 |
10,900 |
8,700 |
41 |
| ID |
130,010 |
49,000 |
38 |
114,805 |
54,000 |
42,500 |
37 |
| ME |
16,668 |
6,400 |
38 |
14,769 |
7,100 |
5,600 |
38 |
| MI |
14,700 |
2,100 |
14 |
14,875 |
3,500 |
1,900 |
13 |
| MN |
21,560 |
6,200 |
29 |
20,400 |
8,700 |
6,500 |
32 |
| MT |
3,696 |
2,100 |
57 |
3,465 |
3,000 |
2,100 |
61 |
| NE |
8,217 |
2,000 |
24 |
8,342 |
3,500 |
2,300 |
28 |
| NY |
5,216 |
500 |
10 |
5,696 |
800 |
450 |
8 |
| ND |
23,660 |
6,000 |
25 |
22,680 |
8,100 |
6,100 |
27 |
| OR |
20,293 |
9,200 |
45 |
18,676 |
9,800 |
7,400 |
40 |
| WA |
100,800 |
27,500 |
27 |
93,000 |
31,400 |
23,700 |
25 |
| WI 2/ |
28,160 |
6,400 |
23 |
25,730 |
9,600 |
6,500 |
25 |
| 13 States 2/ |
397,753 |
125,500 |
32 |
367,715 |
151,400 |
114,550 |
31 |
| Klamath Basin 3/ |
1,150 |
2,000 |
1,450 |
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Stocks include processor holdings and most of the seed to plant
the following year's crop. |
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