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New York production of fall potatoes for 2008 is estimated at 5.70 million hundredweight (cwt.), up 9 percent from a year ago. Harvested acreage at 17,800 was down 3 percent from last year. Yields averaged 320 cwt. per acre, breaking the previous rec...

Potato production in the state is expected to reach 22.7 million cwt in 2008 from 81,000 harvested acres, which is down 11 percent from last year. The average production per acre was higher, however, with the 2008 average yield pegged at a record high ...

Fact sheets / flyer / leaflet-2008 (PDF, 434 kb)

Hoja Divulgativa -2008 (PDF, 434 kb)

US Potato grower-shippers expect more of the same strong pricing in the New Year, which should keep retailers from running perilously low on spuds, as they did last summer.   Year-to-date, as of Dec. 10, Rosholt, Wis.-based Bushmans’ Inc. had shipped a...

The owners of Prince Edward Island potato producer Mid Isle Farms and other local investors have bought the province's potato and blueberry marketing company FoodTrust.

Roots and tubers already make a substantial contribution to providing food and alleviating poverty in the developing countries.  We are convinced that they will play an increasingly important role as food for the future, particularly in the vulnerable ...

The 13 major [US] potato States held 242 million cwt of potatoes in storage December 1, 2008, down 9 percent from a year ago and 7 percent below December 1, 2006. Potatoes in storage accounted for 66 percent of the 2008 fall storage States' production,...

Booming potato production in the developing world could falter as the global economic slowdown reduces investment, trade and potato farmers' access to credit, a new FAO report warned today.The threat comes at a time when potatoes have become an importa...

The Government of Canada is making progress towards regaining market access for Alberta seed potato exports to the United States. The Canada-U.S. Potato Committee has put forward a resolution as the basis for the United States Department of Agriculture...

U.S. potato exports increased at a record pace in the third quarter, up 12 percent by volume from the same period in 2007, according to government trade data.Exports of potatoes and potato products during the July-September period totaled 1.5 billion p...

The state's 2008 potato harvest was the smallest in decades thanks to losses in acreage and crop yields, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. This year, Maine potato farmers produced an estimated 1.44 million pounds, 14% below the 2007 harv...

Frito-Lay reported for the 3rd quarter a 9% revenue growth in North America, resulting from double-digit growth at Tostitos, Ruffles and Cheetos and high-single-digit growth in trademark Lay's and Doritos.

Fresh Solution Farms opened its 144,000 square foot facility in Mottville Township today. Backed by a Michigan Economic Development Corp. grant and six grower-owners, the new company produces top-quality, table-stock potatoes grown in Michigan and the ...

Idaho's potato production will decrease about 12 percent this year compared to last year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture predicts.State officials said the decrease is due mainly to some farmers switching over to wheat.While Idaho farmers produced m...

Kevin MacIsaac says the easy part is over for Island potato producers - the harvesting.Now comes the tough part. Waiting for signs of rot to appear among the millions of pounds of spuds moved into storage."They're going into the building checking ...

The University of Idaho College of Agricultural and Life Sciences has filled two key positions in its potato program. Phillip S. Wharton, a senior research associate at Michigan State University, joined the faculty as potato plant pathologist at the Ab...

A consumer panel of the Florida Times Union evaluated Ore-Ida's Steam and Mash.This product is one members of the Times-Union Consumer Panel really like.They say Ore-Ida Steam n' Mash is not only easy to prepare but tastes homemade too.The frozen potat...