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NYS Fall Potato Production Down 14 Percent
New York Ag Connection - 09/20/2017

Fall potato final production for 2016 is 3.6 million cwt, down 14 percent from the 2015 crop, according to Blair Smith, state statistician of USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service, New York Field Office. Harvested area, at 14,800 acres, is unchanged from 2015.

The average yield of 240 cwt per acre is down 40 cwt from the previous year. The value of all potatoes sold in 2016, at $40.4 million, decreased 13 percent from the previous year. The average price, at $12.60 per cwt, is up $0.40 from 2015. The quantity of potatoes sold from the 2016 crop totaled 3.2 million cwt, down 16 percent from 2015. Sales accounted for 90.1 percent of 2016 production, down 1.8 percent from the previous year. Shrinkage and loss is estimated at 280 thousand cwt for 2016, down 3 percent from 2015. Potatoes used for livestock feed on farms where grown, home use, and seed on their own farms totaled 72 thousand cwt, up 57 percent from 2015.

Potato production in the U.S. for the 2016 crop at 441.4 million cwt is slightly above the 2015 crop. Harvested area, at 1.02 million acres, is down 3.4 percent from 2015. The average yield of 433 cwt per acre is up 15 cwt from the previous year. The value of all U.S. potatoes sold in 2016, at $3.74 billion, increased 3.9 percent from the previous year. The average price, at $9.08 per cwt, is up $0.32 from 2015. The quantity of potatoes sold from the 2016 crop was 410.7 million cwt, up slightly from 2015. Quantity sold accounted for 93 percent of 2016 production, unchanged from the previous year.

U.S. potatoes used for processing totaled 286 million cwt, up 3 percent from 2015. Potatoes used for chips and shoestrings totaled 60.3 million cwt in 2016, up 6 percent from the previous year. Frozen French fries and other frozen products utilized 169.7 million cwt of raw potatoes, up 2 percent from 2015. Potatoes used for dehydrating totaled 48.02 million cwt, unchanged from 2015. Canning use, at 1.93 million cwt, is up 13 percent from the previous year. Other products made from potatoes totaled 6.0 million cwt of potatoes, 7 percent decrease from 2015.


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