Spud sales volume down but values up in 2022
Varieties of potatoes on display at the Potato Variety Management Institute’s booth at the 2023 Washington-Oregon Potato conference in Kennewick in late January. While overall U.S. potato sales fell slightly in 2022 compared with 2021, the value of those sales rose more than 14%, according to a new report on annual potato sales from PotatoesUSA.
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DENVER — While the overall volume of U.S. potato sales fell slightly in 2022 when compared with 2021, the value of those same sales rose 14.4% to $15.5 billion, according to data published by Colorado-based PotatoesUSA, a marketing organization of U.S. potato growers.
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