Potato Stocks Up 13 Percent From June 2009
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The 13 major potato states held 51.3 million cwt. of potatoes in storage June 1, 2010, up 13 percent from a year ago. Potatoes in storage accounted for 13 percent of the 2009 fall storage states’ production, one percentage point above June 1, 2009. Potato disappearance, at 333 million cwt., was 2 percent above June 1, 2009. Season-to-date shrink and loss, at 28.5 million cwt., was up 20 percent from the same date in 2009. Processors in the nine major states have used 160 million cwt. of potatoes this season, down 5 percent from the same period last year. Dehydrating usage accounted for 29.9 million cwt. of the total processing, down 6 percent from last year.