NAPMN predicts a significant increase in US potato harvest

by

In the month of March, North American Potato Market News (NAPMN) predicted that the US 2023 potato harvest to reach 429.6 millions hundredweight (cwt) that’s over 37 million more than the previous year’s comparatively small harvest. This would mean an increase of 9.5 percent growth.

This year’s North Dakota crop is projected to be 25.1 million cwt, which will increase by 9.2 percentage from the last. NAPMN estimates Minnesota to fall by 3.9 percentage based upon the fact that there are 2,200 less acres planted. The Idaho crop is predicted to be 20% more than the previous year’s crop, which was 145 million cwt which is more than 24 million cwt rise. Washington is expected to generate more than 7 million additional cwt during the year.

The Canadian harvest estimate was revised the week before and Canada is predicted to yield 126.5 million tonnes of cwt. This is which is up 3.6 million tonnes from the year before, which is an increase of 2.9 percentage growth. The forecast for the Manitoba potato harvest to be 8percent larger, with 28.2 million tonnes compared to 26.1 in the last crop. It is expected that the Canadian Prairie Provinces will be increasing by 13%, and the Maritimes are predicted to drop 4.3 percent.


Click here to read the entire report.


Visit this link to access the USDA Potatoes 2022 summary.

Source: unitedpotatocanada.com

Related Agroforestry News Posts:

  1. Potato Growers of Alberta happy with the significant indicators of growth This year in the year 2000, earlier this year, the Potato Growers of Alberta (PGA) has released a thorough study of the economic impacts on the potato industry in Alberta. The document, “The Alberta Potato Industry The Alberta Potato Industry...
  2. The first apple and pear crop forecasts made public Prognosfruit 2023 being held at Trentino, Italy, gathering more than 300 people from the pear and apple sector of Europe and further. In the initial sessions of the conference, Pear and apple crop projections for the coming season were announced....
  3. The almond crop in California may be the third biggest on record. California’s almond crop is predicted to grow increase this year and could end up being the third-largest ever recorded. USDA agriculture economics Catherine Weber stated: “California’s almond production in 2023 in terms of shelf space is projected at 2.6 billion...
  4. PCJCCI is proposing to increase healthy variety of Chinese potatoes The Pakistan-China Joint Chamber for Commerce and Industry (PCJCCI) has suggested that it grow Chinese kinds of potato in order to improve the quality of production without disease. PCJCCI officials – at a discussion in the PCJCCI Secretariat Lahore, mentioned...
  5. South Africa estimates 12% table grape crop increase for 2023/24 season The South African table grape industry is expecting the volumes inspected in 2023/2024 in export to rise by around 12% when compared to actual volume of 2022/2023 season. It is also in line with the 3-year average volume. An estimate...

Source: The Plantations International Agroforestry Group of Companies