USA: Potato prices for Idaho farmers are up but so are input costs
Fresh Common Potato
United States
Published Jan 14, 2022
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But so are farm input costs and, with prices for other Idaho crops also up significantly, many Idaho potato farmers may be faced with some tough planting decisions in 2022. Russet potato prices for Idaho farmers typically drop significantly from August to October but that didn't happen this year, Ben Eborn, president of North American Potato Market News, said during a University of Idaho Ag Outlook Seminar presentation Dec. 16. Idaho Russet prices dropped $8 per hundredweight from August to October in 2019, $12 per cwt during that period in 2020, but only $3 per cwt during that same time in 2021. "That's the lowest drop in decades," Eborn said. “Prices are extremely strong and not behaving like they normally have in the past.” Idaho is the nation's top potato-producing state and Gem State farmers produce about a third of the nation's total spud supply. The price increase is partly due to Idaho producing a smaller spud crop in 2021 compared with 2020. Idaho farmers planted 315,000 ...
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