Northwest Region Potato Stocks on February1, 2018 Totaled 129 Million Hundredweight, down 3 Percent from Last Year

Potato stocks in Idaho on February 1, 2018 totaled 73.0 million cwt. Disappearance of the Idaho crop to date was 58.3 million cwt. February1 potato stocks in Oregon totaled 11.3 million cwt. Disappearance to date was 10.1 million cwt. In Washington, February 1 potato stocks totaled 45.0 million cwt. Disappearance to date totaled 54.0 million cwt. Nationally the 13 major potato States held 203 million cwt of potatoes in storage February 1, 2018, down slightly from February 1, 2017. Potatoes in storage accounted for 51 percent of the fall storage States' 2017 production, 1 percentage point more than last year. Potato disappearance, at 197 million cwt, was down 3 percent from February 1, 2017. Season-to-date shrink and loss, at 15.4 million cwt, was 5 percent lower than the same time last year.   Processors in Idaho and Malheur County, Oregon used 38,945 cwt of potatoes for the season, down 1 percent from February 2017. In Washington and other Oregon counties, 46,515 cwt of potatoes had been used by processors for the season, down 3 percent from the previous year. Processors in the 8 major States used 106 million cwt of potatoes for the season, down 1 percent from February 2017. Dehydrating usage accounted for 18,085 cwt of the total potatoes processed.