Though Michigan growers were able to finish planting earlier than usual, below-average temperatures held back crop development during May. Temperatures have warmed up during the past 10 days. Cool weather helped store Michigan’s remaining chip potatoes longer than usual. The state still has a substantial volume of potatoes in storage. Some potatoes have been dumped. NAPMN estimates that Michigan growers planted 46,000 acres of potatoes this year. That is 2,000 acres less than USDA’s estimate for the 2024 crop. Both chip potato and table potato acreage are expected to be down. USDA will release its first estimate of the 2025 potato area in its June Acreage report, on June 30.
Canada had an estimated 26.94 million cwt of potatoes from the 2024 crop in storage on June 1. That is 1.80 million cwt more than year-earlier holdings, a 7.2% increase. Larger inventories in PEI, New Brunswick, Quebec, and Manitoba were partially offset by reduced supplies in Ontario, Alberta, and British Columbia. Stocks intended for processing are up 6.3% from last year. Table potato inventories are up 10.3%, relative to 2024. Canada’s estimated May potato disappearance fell 13.3% below the year-earlier pace. Agriculture Canada did not report June 1, 2025 stocks for New Brunswick. This estimate includes our projection for that province.
Ontario had 880,000 cwt of chip potatoes in storage on June 1. That is 154,000 cwt less than the province held a year earlier, down 14.9%. May chip potato movement exceeded the 2024 pace by 25.4%. At the accelerated May usage rate, Ontario’s storage chip potato supplies would be cleaned up by July 6. Quebec held 1.40 million cwt of processing potatoes (for both chip and frying) on June 1, up 29.2% from a year ago. Quebec’s total May processing potato disappearance exceeded last year’s pace by 6.0%.
US packers shipped 1.643 million cwt of table potatoes during the week ending June 7, 2025. That is down from 1.812 million cwt shipped a year earlier. Michigan packers shipped 37,150 cwt during the week ending June 7, 2025. That is down from 49,115 cwt shipped during the same week in 2024. Last week’s reported Michigan shipments were 80.0% Russets, 12.1% Yellow potatoes, 6.7% Round White potatoes, and 1.2% Red potatoes.
Wisconsin packers are selling size A Russet potatoes in 10# bags for $9.00-$11.00 per 50# bale, unchanged from a week ago. They are selling Russet 40-70 count cartons for $14.00-$15.00 per 50# box, up from $13.50-$15.00 per 50# box last week. The weighted average shipping point price for Idaho Russet Norkotahs is $12.73 per cwt, down from $13.32 per cwt the previous week.
Florida packers are selling 50# cartons of size A Yellow potatoes for $21.75-$22.50 per box, down from $21.50-$24.95 per box last week. They are selling Yellow creamers in 50# cartons for mostly $40.00-$40.95 per box, unchanged from a week ago. They are selling size A Yellow potatoes in 2000# tote bags for $38.00-$40.00 per cwt, down from $38.00-$43.90 per cwt the previous week.
-- Compiled by North American Potato Market News