to buy potato processors running supplies and deliver them across North America for the chips to continue menu after the cold, wet weather damaged crops in major producing fields in the United States and Canada. cold conditions began to grow in October potatoes affected regions of frost card. Farmers in Alberta and Idaho could dig a little ‘damaged grain for storage. But the producers in Manitoba, North Dakota and Minnesota received snow and rain, forcing them to give up some supplies in areas. While the wild weather hurt crops, an increase in the fry-processing capacity in Canada has increased the demand. will bring combined with tight supplies, and it is likely that the potato prices could rise this year across North America, Stephen Nicholson, cereals and oilseeds senior analyst at Rabobank, he said in a telephone interview. international costs are rising and the United States will not be able to so much to export. “French fries demand lately simply outstanding, and so is the demand is not the supply can meet,” Travis Blacker, director of industrial relations with the Idaho Potato Commission, said in a telephone interview. United Potato Growers of Canada Manitoba estimates about 12,000 acres (about 4,900 hectares), or 18% of the surface area of the province were left unharvested – equal to that which was given to all of Canada last season. Approximately 6.5% of Alberta potatoes estimated frost damage. Manitoba is the second largest in the country, followed by Alberta. Prince Edward Island is No. 1. The Government on December 6 Estimates for the output of the nation’s crops, the US Department of Agriculture expects domestic production in 2010 by 6.1% this year to fall to the down, the agency said in a report on November 8. In Idaho, the major manufacturers, the output is expected to fall to 5.5%. Part of the problem for the processors are the means of damage of the potato crops are small. French fry manufacturers generally prefer Spuds longer. In Canada, Cavendish Farms has opened a new processing plant in Lethbridge, Alberta recently. Thanks to a better harvest on the east coast of the country, the company is not expected all customers bottlenecks at this time Mary Keith, a spokesman, he said by e-mail. “It ‘a situation manageable,” Kevin MacIsaac, general manager of the United Potato Growers of Canada, said in a telephone interview. “Do you have the potatoes, on the other hand move to a channel that sometimes do not move in a normal year.”
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