U.S. Potato Plantings Drop 5%
WASHINGTON - Jun 30/20 - SNS - Area planted to potatoes in 2020 is estimated at 921,000 acres, down 5% from 2019, according to the USDA's seeded area estimate for 2020, with harvested area is forecast at 910,300 acres, down 3% from the previous year.
Idaho planted 300,000 acres which is the lowest since 2010. As of June 21, 96% of the crop had emerged compared to 81% last year. Washington acreage at 145,000 is also the lowest since 2010.
In North Dakota, planted acreage at 65,000 is the lowest on record. Planting began in late April and progressed behind last year with planting completed by the week ending June 21 with 81% of the crop emerged compared to 97% last year.
Potato Area Planted and Harvested - States and United States: 2019 and 2020
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: Area planted : Area harvested
State :-----------------------------------------------------------
: 2019 : 2020 : 2019 : 2020 1/
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: 1,000 acres
:
California ...........: 42.0 39.0 41.8 38.6
Colorado .............: 51.3 54.0 51.1 53.8
San Luis Valley 2/ .: 48.6 (NA) 48.5 (NA)
All other areas 2/ .: 2.7 (NA) 2.6 (NA)
Florida ..............: 27.0 24.0 26.2 23.1
Idaho ................: 310.0 300.0 308.0 299.0
Maine ................: 52.0 51.0 51.5 50.5
Michigan .............: 49.0 49.0 46.5 48.0
Minnesota ............: 46.0 45.0 44.0 44.0
Nebraska .............: 20.0 20.0 19.7 19.8
:
North Dakota .........: 73.0 65.0 58.0 62.0
Oregon ...............: 45.0 45.0 44.9 45.0
Texas ................: 18.0 13.0 17.5 12.5
Washington ...........: 165.0 145.0 165.0 144.0
Wisconsin ............: 70.0 71.0 68.0 70.0
:
United States ........: 968.3 921.0 942.2 910.3
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(NA) Not available.
1/ Forecasted.
2/ Estimates discontinued in 2020.
Potato Percent of Acreage Planted by Type - States and United States: 2019 and 2020
[Predominant type shown may include small portion of other type(s) constituting less
than 1 percent of State's total. Blue types are reported under red types]
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State : Red : White : Yellow : Russet
:-----------------------------------------------------------------------
: 2019 : 2020 : 2019 : 2020 : 2019 : 2020 : 2019 : 2020
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: percent
:
California .....: 5 16 70 68 8 3 17 13
Colorado .......: 4 3 1 2 10 8 85 87
Florida ........: 60 25 35 65 5 10 - -
Idaho ..........: 4 3 3 3 2 3 91 91
Maine ..........: 4 5 34 29 2 4 60 62
Michigan .......: 1 1 82 88 1 3 16 8
Minnesota ......: 17 15 12 4 3 2 68 79
Nebraska .......: 1 1 47 48 2 2 50 49
North Dakota ...: 23 24 32 28 3 3 42 45
Oregon .........: 1 3 21 12 1 2 77 83
:
Texas ..........: 10 11 57 62 4 3 29 24
Washington .....: 4 6 10 10 2 4 84 80
Wisconsin ......: 9 9 41 39 4 6 46 46
:
United States ..: 8 7 21 20 3 4 68 69
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- Represents zero.
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