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As shoppers stock up for the summer grilling season, new national sales data indicates US sales of fingerlings and smaller-sized gourmet varietal potatoes, both popular for backyard cookouts, remain on a solid, upward ascent.

Potato sales for Q3 (January – March 2021) of Marketing Year 2021 have caught up to the changed buying habits that the pandemic brought about.

With gatherings now permitted at varying levels, people are eager to cook and dine with family and friends. Side Delights offers a variety of potatoes and recipes perfect for parties of any size.

Starting April 26, Cal-Organic Farms will start shipping freshly harvested, new crop red and gold potatoes to customers from its facility in Lamont, CA. The company’s organic rainbow fingerling variety is set to ship mid-May and organic russets will follow in mid-June.

If consumers 'eat with their eyes first', you could say that packaging is the main course. As such, communicating your brand through a unique package can be one of the most powerful tools in the produce aisle.

Idahoan Foods saw sales of its dehydrated mashed potato products rise during the pandemic as consumers cooked more meals at home.

February is Potato Lover's Month and Arrowfarms companies Morning Kiss Organic and Gold Bell are introducing new, compostable paper bag potato packaging.

Just as QSR-chains use enticing menu board images to drive sales of combo meals, jumbo-sized slushies and other selections, retail grocers are using the same concept to capture the attention of shoppers looking for a side dish for their next prepared, at-home meal.

PEI Potatoes will be on the small screen once again this year, with a brand new message and commercial. 'Made to Enjoy' is a new approach for PEI Potatoes, aimed more at the end consumer than our previous campaigns.

Record potato retail sales continued from October to December 2020, the second quarter of Potatoes USA’s marketing year 2021. All three months saw an increase in both dollar and volume sales, with the largest growth in December.

Tasteful Selections begins new campaign to celebrate the little joys in the New Year.

Wayne Townshend has been named chairman. Townshend has been on the board for five years serving as a seed director.

Record potato sales continued at US retail from July through September 2020. Total store potato sales increased by 13.6% in dollar sales and 10.6% in volume sales, compared to the same time frame in 2019.

From fruits and snacks to entire meal solutions, the frozen category in the USA is experiencing all-time sales highs over the past year.

Tasteful Selections ranks No. 3941 on the 2019 Inc. 5000 with three-year revenue growth of 89 percent.

US Fresh potato sales increased significantly from July 2019 through June 2020, and so did the number of households buying potatoes. Eighty-eight percent of households purchased potatoes on an average of 10 times during the 52-week period.

The smallest potato from the Carcross/Tagish First Nation garden harvest this year was the size of a pea. The spud might be tiny, but its ancestors travelled a long way to get here. The Lingít K'úntsx', or Tlingit potato, has been grown in Alaska for over 200 years.

It was just 18 months ago that Potandon Produce LLC in Idaho Falls, ID, introduced an innovative value-added potato product in the Green Giant Fresh brand called One Step … Done!