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U.S. potato stock up, Basin stocks
unchanged
by DD Bixby, Herald and News 1/31/08
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Potato sheds in the 13 major potato productions
states hold 5 percent more spuds, or 238 million hundred weight, in
January 2008 than January 2007, according to a press release from the
National Agricultural Statistics Service.
Fifty-nine percent of potatoes in storage are
from the storage of 2007 fall production, which was up 1 percent.
Klamath Basin’s potato stocks, which include
storage sheds on both sides of the border, remain unchanged, and totaled
34 million hundred weight.
Oregon’s stocks overall were 16 percent higher
than in 2007.
The other 12 states included in this report
were Idaho, Washington, California, Colorado, Maine, Michigan,
Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New York, North Dakota, and Wisconsin.
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