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Potato production up 12 percent for year (access required)

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Published: November 16,2009
Time posted: 1:00 am

Idaho’s potato production is expected to total 131 million hundredweight, up 12 percent from last year’s 116 million hundredweight and 1 percent above the 2007 crop, the National Agricultural Statistics Service reported recently. Planted acres of 320,000 and harvested acres of 319,000 are up by about 15,000 acres from 2008. Statewide, yield is 411 ...



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