The final numbers are in for the 2018 potato crop in North Dakota.
The 2018 potato crop in North Dakota totaled 23.7 million hundredweight, down 3 percent from 2017 according to USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service.
- Planted potato acres in North Dakota for 2018 totaled 74,500.
- The value of potatoes sold from the 2018 crop totaled $206 million, down 1 percent from 2017.
- In Minnesota, 2018 potato production totaled 18.7 million hundredweight, up 2 percent from 2017.
- The state’s potato growers planted 44,000 acres, which is down 2,000 acres from the 2017 crop.
- Average yield per acre, at 430 hundredweight, was up 6 percent from the previous year.
- The total value of production of the state’s potato crop was up from $173 million in 2017 to $180 million in 2018.