LAKEWOOD, Colo. —
COLORADO HIGHLIGHTS
Potato stocks in Colorado on February 1, 2023, totaled 10.60 million hundredweight, down 10 percent from last year. Disappearance
of the crop to date was 10.52 million hundredweight. Potatoes in storage accounted for 50 percent of the 2022 production, compared
with 55 percent a year earlier. Comparing stocks by type, Russets accounted for 84 percent of the total and Whites accounted for
10 percent. Percentages for Reds and Yellows were not published individually.
UNITED STATES HIGHLIGHTS
Potatoes held in storage on February 1, 2023, totaled 192 million cwt, down 3 percent from February 1, 2022. Potatoes in storage
accounted for 49 percent of the 2022 production, up 1 percent from the same period a year earlier. The indicated season to date
disappearance, at 200 million cwt, was down 5 percent from the same period last year. Season to date shrink and loss, at 15.3 million
cwt, was down slightly from the same time last year. Processors in the 8 States used 112 million cwt of potatoes for the season, down
2 percent from February 2022.
For a full copy of the Potato Stocks report, please visit www.nass.usda.gov.
— USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service, Colorado Field Office