Potato Market Update
Supplies of russet potatoes appear to be backing up in some growing regions. This is happening in several regions resulting in downward pressure on some sizes. Every major growing region is or is near shipping new crop russet potatoes. Growers in Colorado will be the last to start their crop, but they should be up and running next week. Every growing region seems to have had a good growing season with the exception of the northeast. Conditions have been dry most of the summer.
Growers in Washington have brought new crop red potatoes to the market. Supply exceeds demand in the Midwest. Quality read potatoes are ready for orders.
Yellow potatoes are available in all shipping areas at a very reasonable price. Now is the time to promote yellow potatoes.
Very limited amounts of white potato supplies are available. Pricing remains steady.
Supplies of fingerling potatoes are available throughout all shipping areas, pricing remains steady and this item is very promotable as well.
Onion Market Update
Yellow, red and white onions are all in good supply throughout the Columbia Basin. The market is relatively steady, with jumbo-size onions in good supply and medium-size onions being a bit tighter, due to grower size profiles. Walla Walla sweet onions as well as Northwest sweets are also in good supply and continue to be popular at retail stores across the country.
California growers are wrapping up production as the season moves to the Northwest. There is still a small amount of volume shipping out of the state; however, most are coming out of Oregon, Washington and Idaho.
Growers in Idaho are ramping up to full production and have ample supplies available on all three colors.
This weather has been favorable up to this point. We are all itching to get going and dig some potatoes! We’ve only put and small dent into this harvest season with a long way to go yet, but our team has done a great job preparing our equipment so we are ready when the time comes. Our team creates our harvest plan from the ground up. Sorting through variables of weather, size profiles and more. To have a successful harvest, our harvest team must run like a well-oiled machine.
In addition to potatoes, our team also works on corn silage chopping and tillage and kidney bean harvest. At this point, we have 92 acres of superiors dug, 130 acres of mercury, and 75 acres of 1867, 50 acres of yellow potatoes followed up by the 90 acres of red potatoes! These are estimated acres dug to this point with 7,100 to go.
