June First Potato Stocks Down 7% Nationally

Northwest Region Potato Stocks on June 1, 2016 Totaled 36.0 million Hundredweight Potato stocks in Idaho on June 1, 2016 totaled 21.5 million cwt. Disappearance of the Idaho crop to date was 109 million cwt. June 1 potato stocks in Oregon totaled 3.0 million cwt. Disappearance to date was 18.8 million cwt. In Washington, June 1 potato stocks totaled 11.5 million cwt. Disappearance to date totaled 88.8 million cwt. Nationally, the 13 major potato States held 52.2 million cwt of potatoes in storage June 1, 2016, down 7 percent from last year. Potatoes in storage accounted for 13 percent of the 2015 fall storage States' production, down slightly from previous year. Potato disappearance, at 346 million cwt, was up 2 percent from June 1, 2015. Season-to-date shrink and loss, at 24.0 million cwt, was 6 percent lower than 2015. Processors in Idaho and Malheur County, Oregon used 68.4 million cwt of potatoes for the season, down 3 percent from June l, 2015. In Washington and other Oregon counties, 74.3 million cwt of potatoes had been used by processors for the season, up 3 percent from the previous year. Processors in the 9 major States used 181.7 million cwt of potatoes for the season, down slightly from June 1, 2015. Dehydrated usage accounted for 35.1 million cwt of the total potatoes processed.