马铃薯数据、贸易和价格

Las tablas y los cuadros fueron tomados de Agrodata Perú, blog que ofrece información actualizada sobre las importaciones y exportaciones de productos agropecuarios del país. La base de datos es obtenida de la SUNAT Perú.

Despite below-average yields in many States, a 7-percent increase in harvested area boosted U.S. production of fall potatoes to an estimated 387.4 million hundredweight (cwt), 6 percent above last year’s crop.

Processors in Idaho and Malheur County, Oregon used 7.49 million cwt of raw potatoes during October, an increase of 6 percent from last October. Accumulated processing of 2011 crop raw potatoes to November 1 was 20.5 million cwt, up 40 percent.

Statistics Canada has published the preliminary production estimates for the 2011 potato crop in Canada. The Canadian potato production is estimated at 92,653,000 hundredweight (4 202 740 tonnes). This is down 4% from last year’s revised production. T...

Extreme weather carved a chunk out of Manitoba's potato production this year, but high prices are helping to ease the pain for local producers. Manitoba farmers harvested 38,102 fewer tonnes of potatoes this year -- 825,552 versus 863,654 in 2010, for...

Idaho potato growers saw increases in yields, tuber sizes and total production from last fall, according to a report released Nov. 9 by the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service. Statewide, the 2011 spud harvest totaled 127 million hundredweig...

Colorado Agriculture Commissioner John Salazar is organizing a trade mission to Mexico that he hopes will be fruitful for potato farmers in the San Luis Valley. Salazar said Thursday that he and Gov. John Hickenlooper’s office hope to pave a trade pat...

Earlier this week the USDA has released their latest estimates of the 2011 fall potato production in the United States.

Today the USDA published figures on the US potato production in their report "Crop Production". Here is the summary on potatoes:

The National Potato Council (NPC) applauded today’s complete suspension of the retaliatory tariffs on U.S. exports by the government of Mexico. The action comes in response to last week’s approval of the first Mexico-based carrier by the U.S. Departmen...

Potato Processors in Idaho and Malheur County, Oregon have used 13.3 million cwt of 2011 crop raw potatoes to October 1, up 75 percent from last year. Idaho potatoes accounted for 9.46 million cwt of the total processed.

Trends in potato prices are key indicators for potato farmers to keep track of. But average potato price trends can be calculated in a number of different ways. PEI now has become the first jurisdiction in Canada to adopt two new measures - fresh weig...

US potato and product exports were a record $1,350,213,480 and 1,366,649 metric tons for the July 2010–June 2011 fiscal year. This is a 15 percent increase in value and 11 percent increase in volume. On a fresh weight equivalent basis, this represents ...

United Potato Growers of America sponsored a conference last week in Bloomington, MN to discuss the transition from the summer to fall crop.  The meeting was open to all growers and shippers including non-United members.

The 13 major potato States in the US held 143 million cwt of potatoes in storage March 1, 2011, down 15 percent from a year ago.

AFFI commends the agreement announced by President Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderón to end a lengthy cross-border trucking dispute that has resulted in various U.S. frozen food exports being subject to punitive Mexican retaliatory tariffs.

The 13 major potato States held 176 million cwt of potatoes in storage February 1, 2011, down 14 percent from a year ago.

Canada's potato production continued its downward slide in 2010, but Prince Edward Island's acreage showed a slight increase last year, data from Statistics Canada reveals.