Canadian potato growers produced the largest potato crop on record for the 2023 growing season, new statistics from Statistics Canada show.
There were 128,115,000 hundredweight (cwt) of potatoes produced in Canada in 2023, up from 123,520,000 cwt in 2022. The average yield was 332.4 cwt per harvested acres, up from 325.1 cwt per harvested acres in 2022.
Canadian potato growers harvested 385,368 acres of spuds, down from the initial 395,389 acres planted at the start of the growing season. In 2022, 379,955 acres were harvested.
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