News on Potato Stats, Trade, Prices

After months of speculation to what extent the potato production in North America would be reduced, as of yesterday we have the official estimates from the USDA for the United States. The long anticipated report 'Crop production (November 2010)' published November 9, provides detailed information on the fall potato crop in the United States.

This year the Swiss potato harvest is high in quality and quantity. Right now there are 70,000 tonnes of potatoes in store for fresh consumption.

A shortage of potatoes is to prompt a drop in European Union exports of the tuber this year, with poor weather more than wiping out the benefit of higher plantings in many countries.

Potato growers across the United States appear to have finished digging the 2010 crop, but a few potatoes remain in the ground on Canada's Prince Edward Island.

International marketing programs like those of the United States Potato Board (USPB) aim to increase export sales for US potato growers, but they serve a valuable purpose during a market downturn as well

Canada will continue to impose anti-dumping duties on a large share of U.S. fresh-packed potatoes that enter British Columbia.

Canadian growers continue to decrease potato acreage in order to bring production more in-line with market demand.

Exports of US potatoes and products for July 2009 through June 2010 (MY09/10) totaled 1,229,853 metric tons (MT) valued at $1,172,702,250.This is a decline of 0.67 percent in volume and 2.69 percent in value from the previous year’s record levels.

De totale Franse aardappeloogst komt volgens de prognose van Agreste, het bureau voor Statistiek van het Franse Ministerie van Landbouw, uit op 6,3 miljoen ton.

El reporte incluye la siguiente información: Producción de papa para el año 2009 Producción de papa durante el invierno Producción final de papa durante la primavera Producción de papa durante el verano Producción de papa durante el otoño Produ...

The USDA has recently published their annual potato summary, reviewing the 2009 potato crop.Potato production in 2009 is revised to 431 million cwt, down slightly from the estimate in the January Crop Production 2009 Summary but 4 percent above the 20...

Final disposition numbers show Idaho’s 2009 potato crop totalling 133 million cwt, an increase of 1.1 percent from earlier estimates.

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...