News on Potato Stats, Trade, Prices from the Americas

President and CEO Kraig R. Naasz of the American Frozen Foods Institute (AFFI) today issued a statement responding to Mexico’s announcement of additional retaliatory import tariffs on select U.S. exports due to the ongoing cross-border trucking dispute.

USDA reported that North Dakota planted 90,000 acres to potatoes in 2010, an 8000 acre increase compared to last year.

What will potato harvest 2010 bring? A brief look at the situation in North-West Europe and North America.

La FAO está permitiendo el acceso libre y abierto a su depósito central de datos, FAOSTAT, la base de datos estadísticos más grande y completa del mundo en materia de alimentos, agricultura y el hambre, anunció hoy la Organización. Anteriormente era p...

Bruce Huffaker, editor of North American Potato Market News (NAPMN) forecasts the total area planted to potatoes in Canada to be 356,000 acres - 15,100 fewer acres than planted in 2009, a 4.1% reduction.

After 15 months, there’s been no change in lifting a retaliatory tariff placed on U.S. frozen potato imports. During that time, U.S. potato shipments to Mexico declined by 50 percent, according to the Washington State Potato Commission.   But Canadian ...

Canada exported 14.0 million cwt of potatoes and potato products during the January-March quarter. According to the editor of North American Potato Market News (NAPMN), Bruce Huffaker, that fell 1.7 million cwt short of the 2009 pace, a 10.7% decline. ...

Processors in Idaho and Malheur County, Oregon used 6.90 million cwt of 2009 crop raw potatoes during April, up 5.5 percent from April 2009. Processors in Idaho and Malheur County, Oregon have used 56.1 million cwt of 2009 crop raw potatoes to May 1, ...

The USDA NASS Cold Storage report released yesterday indicates there was a total of 1,106,521,000 pounds of frozen potato products in storage in the United States on February 28 2010. This is down 7% from last year and slightly up from the amount in s...

March 10 marks the one-year anniversary of Congress’s decision to terminate the cross-border trucking program with Mexico, a move found illegal under NAFTA and generating retaliatory tariffs on more than 90 U.S. products and subsequent decreases in export

The 13 major potato States held 203 million cwt of potatoes in storage February 1, 2010, up 11 percent from a year ago and 2 percent above February 1, 2008. Potatoes in storage accounted for 53 percent of the 2009 fall storage States' production, 3 per...

The Government of Canada is helping New Brunswick potato farmers capture new markets and increase profitability by investing in a new market information database that will help producers make more informed decisions.

In March 2009, U.S. lawmakers canceled funding for a test program begun by the Bush administration that allowed Mexican long-haul trucks to circulate in the United States, citing safety and security concerns.The truck ban prompted Mexico to slap retali...

De voorraad aardappelen in de Verengde Staten van oogstjaar 2009 per 1 februari 2010 ligt volgens cijfers van het NAPMN (North American Potato Market News) maar liefst 12% hoger dan vorig seizoen rond dezelfde tijd. Totaal zou de actuele voorraad nu ui...

This publication is the result of a joint effort by Statistics Canada and USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) to publish potato production for both countries in one report. U.S. 2009 fall potato production was released January 12, 20...

Statistics Canada has released the report "Canadian Potato Production"January  22, 2010 with some revised numbers.The publication contains revisions to the 2009 potato production for both Canada and the United States, as well as revisions to ...

Potato processors in the 9 major potato processing States have used 60.9 million cwt of potatoes this season (harvest 2009), down 12 percent from the same period last year and down 17 percent from 2 years ago. Dehydrating usage accounted for 11.0 milli...