Potato Market Information Review – 2019-2020

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Overview

Potatoes are the largest vegetable crop grown in Canada, accounting for 27.2% of all vegetable receipts^Footnote1 and 14.7% of all horticultural^{Footnote 2} receipts. Potato receipts totaled $1.29 billion in 2019, up 0.5% from 2018.

Potatoes are generally planted in the spring and harvested throughout the late-summer and fall. Immediately after harvest, potatoes are placed in temperature and light controlled storage. Potato tubers are a living part of the plant and the tubers require careful environmental management to avoid rot and sprouting. Three main categories make up the potato products produced in Canada: potatoes for processing, table/fresh potatoes, and seed potatoes. Each category is comprised of unique end-uses and markets. This unique end-users include direct consumers, food service, retailers, and other producers/seed companies. Potatoes are continually supplied from storage/packing facility to both the fresh and the processing markets year-round. To maintain the year-round supply of potatoes in Canada, storage for seven months or longer is often needed. Potatoes are a staple food used in a wide variety of meals and dishes, and are a critical domestic crop contributing to national food security.

In 2019, approximately 1,005 potato growers across Canada, planted 362,095 acres (146,535 hectares) of potatoes (up 4% from 2018). This increase was largely the result of the increased processing capacity for both McCain's and JR Simplot in Manitoba and for Cavendish Farms in Alberta. Total production in 2019 was estimated at 4.8 million metric tons of potatoes (or 4% higher than 2018). The main producing provinces by volume were Prince Edward Island (24%), Alberta (20%), Manitoba (19%), New Brunswick (15%), Quebec (12%) and Ontario (6%).

The potato yield have been relatively stable over the last five year with a five-year average of 34.8 metric tons per hectare. Alberta and Manitoba had the highest yield, averaging a five-year yield of 43.9 and 38.5 metric tons per hectare respectively.

Of the total Canadian production in 2019, approximately 66% was destined to the processing sector, 21% to the fresh sector, and 13% to the seed sector. The bulk of the processing potatoes are destined to French fry market. The main French fry processing provinces by volume were Alberta, Manitoba, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. The major potato processors are located close to where the production occurs and involve several Canadian-U.S. companies. These processors offer contracts to potato growers for production of the quantities and varieties required, in advance of the growing season.

About 150 potato varieties are registered in Canada for commercial production. Alberta, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Saskatchewan and British Columbia are the key seed potato producing provinces.

Canada is net exporter of potato and potato products. In the 2019-2020 crop year^Footnote3, exports of Canadian potatoes and potato products were estimated at $1.93 billion, up 2.7% from the previous crop year. Canada exported fresh potatoes (table stock and seed potatoes) worth $377 million and processed potatoes (frozen and other) worth $1.55 billion during that period. The largest export destination for Canadian potatoes and potato products is the United States, accounting for 90.3% of Canadian potato exports in terms of value. Mexico (1.8%) and Japan (1.6%) are the second and third largest export destinations, respectively, mostly due to the volume of processed potato products that Canada ships to those two countries.

Canada imported a total value of $436 million in potatoes in 2019-2020. Of that amount, $313 million was in frozen and processed potatoes, and the remaining $123 million was in fresh potatoes ($114 million for table stock potatoes and $9 million for seed potatoes).

Worldwide, Canada is among the top ten countries exporting table stock and seed potatoes. In 2019, in terms of value, Canada ranked 6th in fresh (table) potato exports, totalling $267 of million and ranked 8th in exports of seed potatoes with value of $38 million.

The impact on COVID-19 has resulted in surplus potatoes from the 2019 crop and production contract reduction for the 2020 crop. The significant decline in food service demand in Canada and the U.S, due to the public health mandated closures has significantly affected Canadian seed and processed potato (French fry) growers. However, the reopening of businesses in Canada-U.S. has helped, with improved movement through French fry processing plants. In addition, significant quantities have also moved through the Surplus Food Rescue Program, resulting in significant inventory reduction of processing potatoes from 2019 crop.

1. Number of farms and production

1.1 Number of potato farms[1][2] in Canada (2006, 2011 and 2016)

	2006	2011	2016	% change 2016/2011
Newfoundland and Labrador	26	25	5	−80%
Prince Edward Island	330	262	202	−23%
Nova Scotia	17	13	7	−46%
New Brunswick	238	193	144	−25%
Quebec	274	224	191	−15%
Ontario	243	170	147	−14%
Manitoba	153	99	77	−22%
Saskatchewan	91	61	33	−46%
Alberta	162	149	125	−16%
British Columbia	73	127	74	−42%
Canada	1,607	1,323	1,005	−24%
Notes: The last Census of Agriculture was conducted in 2016. The next Census of Agriculture will occur in 2021 Number of farms includes all farms reported to be growing potatoes and on which potato production represents 50% or more of total farm cash receipts. Source: Statistics Canada. Table 32-10-0166-01 Farms classified by farm type

1.2. Canadian potato production

1.2.1. Seeded area by province (hectares)

	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	% change 2019/2018
Newfoundland and Labrador	F	F	142	142	132	−7%
Prince Edward Island	34,722	35,208	34,075	34,803	34,601	−1%
Nova Scotia	657	718	688	647	647	0%
New Brunswick	19,304	19,275	20,922	21,044	21,408	2%
Quebec	16,900	16,900	17,100	17,300	17,607	4%
Ontario	14,063	14,083	14,326	13,759	13,770	0%
Manitoba	27,235	26,674	25,455	25,940	28,328	9%
Saskatchewan	2,711	2,792	2,630	2,550	2,550	0%
Alberta	21,500	21,443	21,679	22,386	24,781	10%
British Columbia	2,469	2,934	2,630	2,671	2,711	2%
Canada	139,723	140,190	139,647	141,242	146,535	4%
Note: F: Too unreliable to be published. Source: Statistics Canada. Table 32-10-0358-01 Area, production and farm value of potatoes

1.2.2. Harvested area by province (hectares)

	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	% change 2019/2018
Newfoundland and Labrador	F	F	132	121	122	0%
Prince Edward Island	34,520	35,086	33,670	32,051	33,994	6%
Nova Scotia	486	647	647	567	647	14%
New Brunswick	19,202	19,020	20,882	20,639	21,367	4%
Quebec	16,600	16,800	16,900	16,255	17,469	7%
Ontario	14,022	14,063	14,083	13,658	13,568	−1%
Manitoba	27,114	25,900	25,414	23,796	23,067	−3%
Saskatchewan	2,711	2,752	2,630	2,388	2,428	2%
Alberta	20,292	20,598	20,673	21,605	23,006	6%
British Columbia	2,456	2,833	2,590	2,671	2,671	0%
Canada	137,553	137,848	137,621	133,749	138,339	3%
Note: F: Too unreliable to be published. Source: Statistics Canada. Table 32-10-0358-01 Area, production and farm value of potatoes

1.2.3. Production by province (tonnes)

	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	% change 2019/2018
Newfoundland and Labrador	F	F	2,858	2,540	2,449	−4%
Prince Edward Island	1,127,177	1,166,776	1,109,623	1,025,119	1,143,053	12%
Nova Scotia	14,969	19,595	19,595	16,556	18,869	14%
New Brunswick	684,925	650,225	687,601	710,779	743,892	5%
Quebec	560,595	554,880	567,217	508,976	573,704	13%
Ontario	361,513	299,507	355,163	313,841	304,134	−3%
Manitoba	981,120	1,016,047	1,006,975	920,793	893,577	−3%
Saskatchewan	75,977	77,111	73,709	65,952	68,039	3%
Alberta	874,073	885,367	933,130	987,108	985,112	0%
British Columbia	75,432	100,017	82,735	95,254	97,296	2%
Canada	4,758,502	4,772,881	4,838,606	4,646,918	4,830,124	4%
Note: F: Too unreliable to be published. Source: Statistics Canada. Table 32-10-0358-01 Area, production and farm value of potatoes

1.2.4. Average yield by province (tonnes per harvested hectares)

	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	% change 2019/2018
Newfoundland and Labrador	F	F	21.73	20.92	20.11	−4%
Prince Edward Island	32.65	33.25	32.96	31.98	33.63	5%
Nova Scotia	30.82	30.26	30.26	29.22	29.14	0%
New Brunswick	35.67	34.19	32.93	34.44	34.81	1%
Quebec	33.77	33.03	33.56	31.31	32.84	5%
Ontario	25.78	21.30	25.22	22.98	22.42	−2%
Manitoba	36.19	39.23	39.62	38.70	38.74	0%
Saskatchewan	28.02	28.02	28.02	27.62	28.02	1%
Alberta	43.08	42.98	45.14	45.69	42.82	−6%
British Columbia	30.71	35.31	31.94	35.66	36.43	2%
Canada	34.59	34.62	35.16	34.74	34.92	0%
Note: F: Too unreliable to be published. Source: Statistics Canada. Table 32-10-0358-01 Area, production and farm value of potatoes

1.3. Top 50 registered seed potato varieties grown in Canada, total area accepted in 2019 (hectares)

	Newfoundland and Labrador	Prince Edward Island	Nova Scotia	New Brunswick	Quebec	Ontario	Manitoba	Saskatchewan	Alberta	British Columbia	Total
Russet Burbank		793	33	901	46		1,565	56	1,914	8	5,315
Goldrush	3	415		171	967	10	13	6	52	0	1,638
HO2000		515						106	313		934
Norland	0	194		29	103	0	205	241	64	16	853
Ranger Russet		260	1	0			222	11	249	4	747
Shepody		344	21	189	1	2		21	117	7	700
Eva		619		3							622
Dakota Russet		475	10	2			13	7	0		507
Atlantic	0	183		241	3			0	58	4	489
Chieftain	1	72		63	224	5		0	26	50	441
Prospect		349	23	31							404
Superior	1	208		22	143	6			0		379
Russet Norkotah		10		103	15			40	162	17	347
Ciklamen		14				10	268	35	18		346
Innovator		110		120			76		16		323
Perline		179						56	81		316
Umatilla Russet							131	9	173		313
Kennebec		167		51	1	12	2	2	16	34	286
Clearwater Russet		84	19	1	4	41	4	57	72		281
Colomba		52		0	43		85	8	63		252
Highland Russet		144		92	16			0			252
Ivory Russet		88	1	1			1	0	128		220
Bintje								2	207	0	209
Envol					205						205
Satina		53		60			2		89		203
Baby Boomer		110						35	56		202
Milva						18		180	1		199
Yukon Gold	0	43		32	32	0	16	0	38	37	198
Sangre		6					93	17	55		171
Dakota Pearl		53				10	30		73		165
Yellow Star					17	27		57	49		150
Mountain Gem Russet		120	9	0	5				0		134
Viking				20	61		26	9	2		119
Snowden		13		86	2				7		109
Electra		102							5		107
Vivaldi		0		0	101				0		101
Smart		8		0			85	6	1		100
Mystère					90						90
Ac Chaleur		15		9	58	6					89
Gemstar Russet		3		11	34	29				11	87
Lamoka		36		5	30		1	0	14		85
Vigor							25		56		82
Purple Prince		44						7	28		79
Bordeaux		9					59	0	3		71
Agata							39		28		67
Sifra		23		0	8	17			14	5	66
Reba		45		13	8						66
Orchestra							41		25		66
Roko					14				46		60
Darkred Chieftain					59						59
Total top 50 registered varieties	6	5,96	117	2,257	2,289	192	3,002	969	4,318	193	19,303
Total other varieties[1]	1	898	14	726	628	54	224	261	950	104	3,860
Total all	7	6,858	131	2,982	2,917	247	3,226	1,23	5,268	297	23,163
Note: 1. Other varieties included non-registered varieties, varieties grown on smaller hectarage and varieties that were not approved for release by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency Representative. Source: Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Potatoes Section

1.4. Total area (hectares) accepted of registered seed varieties grown in Canada – five year average

	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2015-2019 (5-year average)
Newfoundland and Labrador	23	32	31	27	7	24
Prince Edward Island	6,578	6,288	6,686	6,387	6,858	6,559
Nova Scotia	0	0	109	149	131	78
New Brunswick	4,063	3,690	3,240	3,107	2,982	3,416
Quebec	2,798	2,631	2,809	2,728	2,917	2,777
Ontario	194	314	313	318	247	277
Manitoba	2,446	2,497	2,629	2,873	3,226	2,734
Saskatchewan	1,191	1,146	1,200	1,167	1,230	1,187
Alberta	4,325	4,398	4,440	4,864	5,268	4,659
British Columbia	388	340	308	308	297	328
Total	22,006	21,335	21,765	21,928	23,163	22,039
Source: Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Potatoes Section

2. Canadian potato storage holdings

2.1. Canadian potato storage by province[1] (hundreds of metric tonnes)

Province	December 2019	January 2020	February 2020	March 2020	April 2020	May 2020	June 2020	July 2020
Prince Edward Island	8,472	7,549	6,572	5,630	4,701	3,704	2,043	1,950
New Brunswick	5,143	4,676	3,970	3,425	2,825	2,003	1,036	625
Quebec	3,786	3,375	2,791	2,395	1,923	1,255	576	434
Ontario	2,072	1,713	1,461	1,166	900	481	300	82
Manitoba	6,296	5,516	4,583	3,919	3,273	2,252	1,384	1,045
Alberta	7,635	6,956	6,145	5,357	4,404	3,150	2,061	1,594
British Columbia	450	369	297	249	166	87	37	1
Total Canada	33,854	30,154	25,820	22,140	18,193	12,932	7,437	5,732
Notes: 1. Storage data for Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia and Saskatchewan are not available. This table provides data by province across Canada as reported by the storage operators and represents volumes as of the first of each month from December to July. Source: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (Infohort)

2.2. Canadian potato storage

**Canadian potato storage, crop years: 2017-2018, 2019-2029 and 2019-2020 (hundreds of metric tonnes per month)**
	December	January	February	March	April	May	June
2017-2018	36,418	32,502	28,368	24,934	20,450	15,563	9,121
2018-2019	33,854	30,154	25,820	22,140	18,193	12,932	7,437
2019-2020	35,235	31,557	27,477	23,310	18,596	14,624	9,442

2.3. Intended utilization of potatoes by province (hundreds of metric tonnes)

		December 2019	January 2020	February 2020	March 2020	April 2020	May 2020	June 2020	July 2020
Prince Edward Island	Fresh	2,528	2,184	1,842	1,502	1,033	687	383	134
	Processed	5,731	5,125	4,550	3,952	3,364	2,819	2,223	1,690
	Seed	1,018	1,009	998	979	912	861	133	126
New Brunswick	Fresh	721	650	579	510	267	163	73	16
	Processed	3,613	3,224	2,753	2,269	1,860	1,535	1,112	609
	Seed	825	795	752	719	689	469	82	0
Quebec	Fresh	2,009	1,674	1,355	1,068	726	542	354	158
	Processed	1,567	1,401	1,201	1,008	768	575	385	274
	Seed	558	547	546	508	431	197	39	2
Ontario	Fresh	618	503	388	294	194	114	37	5
	Processed	1,417	1,287	1,106	909	679	470	254	76
	Seed	31	32	32	32	22	17	0	n/a
Manitoba	Fresh	627	510	397	355	274	176	84	43
	Processed	4,876	4,434	3,760	3,107	2,476	2,057	1,688	991
	Seed	608	608	608	608	608	487	5	11
Alberta	Fresh	358	270	211	158	66	8	n/a	n/a
	Processed	6,080	5,407	4,654	3,966	3,247	2,944	2,438	1,594
	Seed	1,663	1,591	1,508	1,188	884	441	113	n/a
British Columbia	Fresh	323	244	176	117	54	28	13	1
	Processed	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0	n/a
	Seed	63	63	63	60	43	33	25	0
Notes: n/a: Not available This table is done in conjunction with the storage holdings and indicates the intended utilization as reported by the storage operators of either the fresh market, seed market or processing market. The storage operator's intent may change during the month depending on the demand. Source: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (Infohort)

2.5. Percentage of intended utilization of potato by province

	% Fresh	% Processed	% Seed
Prince Edward Island	27%	62%	11%
New Brunswick	14%	70%	16%
Quebec	49%	38%	14%
Ontario	30%	69%	1%
Manitoba	10%	80%	10%
Alberta	4%	75%	21%
British Columbia	84%	0%	16%
Note: Details of intended utilization are not available for Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Saskatchewan, and have therefore not been used in this section. Source: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (Infohort)

3. Revenue

3.1. Potato farm receipts (in thousands of Canadian dollars)

	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	% change 2019/2018
Newfoundland and Labrador	1,313	1,599	1,414	1,349	1,296	−4%
Prince Edward Island	234,497	250,300	244,216	229,782	240,598	5%
Nova Scotia	5,071	6,946	7,118	6,220	6,643	7%
New Brunswick	136,113	137,389	159,910	171,638	166,233	−3%
Quebec	132,452	152,898	164,793	157,809	176,245	12%
Ontario	111,546	117,604	100,539	123,280	108,446	−12%
Manitoba	204,518	244,792	270,658	256,437	233,777	−9%
Saskatchewan	25,639	28,018	28,483	30,992	34,134	10%
Alberta	190,473	240,065	204,855	252,857	255,007	1%
British Columbia	37,566	47,574	47,882	48,842	62,683	28%
Canada	1,079,188	1,227,185	1,229,868	1,279,207	1,285,062	0%
Note: Potato farm cash receipts refer to market receipts, excluding program payments. They represent the income received from the sale of potatoes. Source: Statistics Canada. Table 32-10-0045-01 Farm cash receipts, annual (× 1,000)

4. Prices

4.1. Canadian potato farm average prices (Canadian dollars per tonne)

	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
Newfoundland and Labrador	557.33	553.14	561.74	588.85	591.28
Prince Edward Island	258.60	261.25	260.15	254.85	277.12
Nova Scotia	359.35	383.16	390.00	393.30	398.60
New Brunswick	259.04	259.93	270.07	274.26	284.40
Quebec	291.45	299.61	338.41	350.53	380.52
Ontario	342.38	370.60	383.82	401.90	408.30
Manitoba	266.10	272.93	289.03	293.66	305.56
Saskatchewan	420.86	437.40	449.52	532.20	604.73
Alberta	270.07	266.98	279.55	276.24	298.29
British Columbia	596.79	584.45	625.01	649.26	693.57
Canada	281.97	286.82	299.17	302.92	323.86
Note: 1. The average price of potatoes per province depends, among other things, on the type of potato grown in each province (seed, table or processing). Source: Statistics Canada, Farm Income and Prices

4.2. Monthly summary of daily wholesale to retail market prices

4.2.1. Toronto market

		Red Carton 50 Pounds Size A	Russet Carton 50 Pounds 100	White Bag 10 Pounds	White Bag 50 Pounds Large	Yukon Gold Bag 50 Pounds Large
August 2019	Low	n/a	$24.00	n/a	$3.75	$25.00
August 2019	High	n/a	$24.00	n/a	$4.50	$25.00
September 2019	Low	$35.00	$24.00	$26.00	$2.50	$22.00
September 2019	High	$41.00	$24.00	$26.00	$3.25	$22.00
October 2019	Low	$35.00	$24.00	$26.00	$2.50	$22.00
October 2019	High	$42.00	$24.00	$26.00	$3.00	$22.00
November 2019	Low	$42.00	$24.00	$21.00	$2.50	$22.00
November 2019	High	$42.00	$24.00	$25.00	$2.75	$22.00
December 2019	Low	$35.00	$24.00	$21.00	$2.75	$22.00
December 2019	High	$42.00	$24.00	$25.00	$3.00	$22.00
January 2020	Low	$35.00	$24.00	$21.00	$3.00	$22.00
January 2020	High	$37.00	$24.00	$21.00	$3.00	$22.00
February 2020	Low	$37.00	$24.00	$21.00	$3.00	$22.00
February 2020	High	$37.00	$24.00	$25.00	$3.00	$22.00
March 2020	Low	$36.00	$24.00	$25.00	$3.00	$22.00
March 2020	High	$48.00	$24.00	$29.00	$3.00	$22.00
April 2020	Low	$47.00	$24.00	$29.00	$3.00	$21.00
April 2020	High	$48.00	$24.00	$29.00	$4.00	$22.00
May 2020	Low	$47.00	$24.00	n/a	$3.50	n/a
May 2020	High	$47.00	$24.00	n/a	$4.00	n/a
June 2020	Low	$47.00	$24.00	n/a	$3.00	n/a
June 2020	High	$47.00	$24.00	n/a	$4.00	n/a
July 2020	Low	$47.00	$24.00	n/a	$2.50	$21.00
July 2020	High	$47.00	$24.00	n/a	$4.00	$21.00
Notes: n/a: Not available Prices are based on Canada No. 1 grade potatoes. Daily wholesale to retail market prices refer to markets where prices are reported on a daily basis from Monday to Friday. This data is not comparable across markets as varieties, package sizes (unity quantity) and origin may differ. Source: Infohort (AAFC)

4.2.2. Montreal market

		Red Bag 10 Pounds	Russet Carton 50 Pounds 100	Russet Carton 50 Pounds 80	White Bag 10 Pounds	Yukon Gold Bag 10 Pounds
August 2019	Low	$3.25	$21.50	$29.50	$3.00	$3.00
August 2019	High	$4.75	$36.50	$39.50	$4.35	$6.00
September 2019	Low	$3.00	$21.50	$25.00	$2.15	$3.00
September 2019	High	$4.50	$36.50	$39.50	$3.75	$4.75
October 2019	Low	$2.75	$24.00	$25.00	$2.00	$2.75
October 2019	High	$3.50	$31.50	$34.50	$27.50	$3.75
November 2019	Low	$2.50	$25.00	$26.00	$1.90	$2.50
November 2019	High	$3.75	$27.50	$30.50	$2.75	$3.50
December 2019	Low	$2.75	$26.00	$27.00	$2.00	$2.75
December 2019	High	$3.75	$27.50	$30.50	$2.95	$3.75
January 2020	Low	$2.90	$26.00	$27.00	$2.00	$3.35
January 2020	High	$3.75	$27.50	$30.50	$3.10	$4.85
February 2020	Low	$2.90	$24.00	$25.00	$1.90	$3.25
February 2020	High	$3.95	$27.50	$30.50	$3.05	$4.85
March 2020	Low	$2.90	$24.00	$25.00	$1.95	$3.15
March 2020	High	$5.50	$27.50	$30.50	$4.95	$5.75
April 2020	Low	$3.75	$22.00	$26.50	$2.50	$3.75
April 2020	High	$4.95	$27.50	$30.50	$4.75	$5.50
May 2020	Low	$3.75	$22.00	$24.50	$2.50	$3.25
May 2020	High	$4.50	$27.50	$30.50	$4.50	$4.50
June 2020	Low	$3.50	$23.00	n/a	$3.00	$3.50
June 2020	High	$4.50	$27.50	n/a	$3.75	$4.50
July 2020	Low	$3.50	$16.50	n/a	$1.75	$3.75
July 2020	High	$4.50	$30.00	n/a	$4.00	$5.50
Notes: n/a: Not available Prices are based on Canada No. 1 grade potatoes. Daily wholesale to retail market prices refer to markets where prices are reported on a daily basis from Monday to Friday. This data is not comparable across markets as varieties, package sizes (unity quantity) and origin may differ. Source: Infohort (AAFC)

4.3. Monthly summary of weekly wholesale to retail market prices

4.3.1. Vancouver market

		Organic-Yellow Carton 10×5 Pounds	Red Carton 10×5 Pounds	White Carton 50 Pounds	Yukon Gold Carton 10×5 Pounds	Yukon Gold Carton 50 Pounds Medium
August 2019	Low	n/a	$32.95	$23.75	$31.75	$33.00
August 2019	High	n/a	$36.50	$32.95	$35.00	$36.50
September 2019	Low	n/a	$32.95	$31.75	$31.75	$33.00
September 2019	High	n/a	$33.50	$32.95	$35.00	$33.50
October 2019	Low	$22.50	$20.00	n/a	$35.00	$31.25
October 2019	High	$22.50	$31.75	n/a	$35.00	$31.25
November 2019	Low	$39.50	$31.25	n/a	$20.00	$31.25
November 2019	High	$39.50	$32.00	n/a	$35.00	$32.00
December 2019	Low	$40.50	$31.25	n/a	$30.50	$30.50
December 2019	High	$40.50	$32.00	n/a	$31.75	$32.00
January 2020	Low	$40.50	$31.25	n/a	$20.00	$31.25
January 2020	High	$42.00	$32.00	n/a	$30.50	$31.75
February 2020	Low	$24.50	$31.25	n/a	n/a	$31.25
February 2020	High	$42.00	$31.75	n/a	n/a	$31.25
March 2020	Low	n/a	$31.25	n/a	n/a	n/a
March 2020	High	n/a	$34.25	n/a	n/a	n/a
April 2020	Low	n/a	$33.00	n/a	n/a	n/a
April 2020	High	n/a	$37.50	n/a	n/a	n/a
May 2020	Low	n/a	$35.00	n/a	n/a	n/a
May 2020	High	n/a	$47.00	n/a	n/a	n/a
June 2020	Low	n/a	$38.45	$31.75	$53.00	n/a
June 2020	High	n/a	$47.00	$34.25	$53.00	n/a
July 2020	Low	n/a	n/a	$23.25	n/a	n/a
July 2020	High	n/a	n/a	$33.55	n/a	n/a
Notes: n/a: Not available Prices are based on Canada No. 1 grade potatoes. Wholesale asking prices shown as not available are due to a lack or limited number of collaborating wholesalers quoting prices for the time period and market in question. Weekly wholesale to retail market prices refer to markets where prices are reported once a week. This data is not comparable across markets as varieties, package sizes (unity quantity) and origin may differ. Source: Infohort (AAFC)

4.3.2. Calgary market

		Organic-Russet Carton 50 Pounds	Organic-Yellow Carton 50 Pounds	Red Carton 50 Pounds	Russet Carton 10×5 Pounds	Yukon Gold Carton 50 Pounds
August 2019	Low	n/a	$44.75	$35.50	$22.00	n/a
August 2019	High	n/a	$44.75	$38.50	$22.00	n/a
September 2019	Low	n/a	$44.75	$33.75	$22.00	$33.75
September 2019	High	n/a	$44.75	$35.31	$25.04	$33.75
October 2019	Low	$34.25	$44.75	$33.75	$22.00	$33.75
October 2019	High	$36.75	$44.75	$33.75	$22.00	$33.75
November 2019	Low	$34.25	$44.75	$33.75	$22.00	$33.75
November 2019	High	$34.25	$44.75	$33.75	$22.00	$33.75
December 2019	Low	$34.25	$44.75	$33.75	$21.00	$33.75
December 2019	High	$37.25	$44.75	$33.75	$22.00	$33.75
January 2020	Low	$35.25	$44.75	$33.75	$21.75	$22.50
January 2020	High	$38.75	$46.25	$33.75	$21.75	$33.75
February 2020	Low	$38.75	$48.25	$33.75	n/a	$33.75
February 2020	High	$38.75	$49.75	$33.75	n/a	$33.75
March 2020	Low	n/a	$49.75	$35.50	n/a	$35.50
March 2020	High	n/a	$49.75	$38.50	n/a	$38.50
April 2020	Low	n/a	n/a	$37.00	n/a	$36.25
April 2020	High	n/a	n/a	$40.00	n/a	$40.00
May 2020	Low	n/a	n/a	$37.50	n/a	$36.25
May 2020	High	n/a	n/a	$49.50	n/a	$40.00
June 2020	Low	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
June 2020	High	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
July 2020	Low	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
July 2020	High	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Notes: n/a: Not available Prices are based on Canada No. 1 grade potatoes. Wholesale asking prices shown as not available are due to a lack or limited number of collaborating wholesalers quoting prices for the time period and market in question. Weekly wholesale to retail market prices refer to markets where prices are reported once a week. This data is not comparable across markets as varieties, package sizes (unity quantity) and origin may differ. Source: Infohort (AAFC)

5. Potato availability

5.1. Potatoes available in Canada[1][2] (kilograms per person)

	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
Potatoes-chips	3.30	3.67	3.71	3.65	3.63
Potatoes-chips, fresh equivalent	11.55	12.84	12.98	12.77	12.69
Potatoes-frozen	6.89	6.59	5.72	4.11	6.01
Potatoes-frozen, fresh equivalent	11.71	11.20	9.72	6.99	10.21
Potatoes-other processed	3.99	4.05	4.15	4.02	4.29
Potatoes-other processed, fresh equivalent	10.54	10.70	10.95	10.61	11.32
Potatoes-total processed	14.18	14.31	13.57	11.78	13.92
Potatoes-total processed, fresh equivalent	33.80	34.75	33.65	30.38	34.22
Potatoes-white fresh	24.19	25.60	31.68	20.33	23.69
Potatoes-white fresh, fresh equivalent	24.19	25.60	31.68	20.33	23.69
Potatoes-white fresh and processed, fresh equivalent	57.92	60.35	65.33	50.71	57.92
Notes: [1] Food available per person is calculated by dividing the domestic disappearance by the Canadian population as of July 1st of the reference year, at the retail level. Domestic disappearance represents the total food available for human consumption from the Canadian food supply chain. Total Supply = Beginning stocks + Production + Imports Domestic Disappearance = Total supply − Exports − Manufacturing − Waste − Ending stocks [2] Does not adjust for losses, such as waste and/or spoilage, in stores, households, private institutions or restaurants or losses during preparation. Source: Statistics Canada. Table 32-10-0054-01 Food available in Canada

5.2. Potatoes available in Canada – 10 year-trend

**Potatoes available for consumption (kilograms per person)**
Year	Kilograms per person
2010	59.80
2011	56.57
2012	64.20
2013	61.52
2014	48.87
2015	57.92
2016	60.35
2017	65.33
2018	50.71
2019	57.92

5.3. Potatoes available[1] in Canada adjusted for losses[2] (kilograms per person)

	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
Potatoes-chips	2.98	3.31	3.35	3.29	3.27
Potatoes-frozen	5.44	5.20	4.52	3.25	4.74
Potatoes-other processed	3.35	3.40	3.48	3.37	3.60
Potatoes-total processed	11.76	11.91	11.34	9.91	11.61
Potatoes-white fresh	17.10	18.10	22.39	14.37	16.75
Potatoes-white fresh and processed	40.50	42.15	45.63	35.42	40.45
Notes: [1] Food available per person is calculated by dividing the domestic disappearance by the Canadian population as of July 1st of the reference year, at the retail level. Domestic disappearance represents the total food available for human consumption from the Canadian food supply chain. Total Supply = Beginning stocks + Production + Imports Domestic Disappearance = Total supply − Exports − Manufacturing − Waste − Ending stocks [2] Experimental, use with caution. The data have been adjusted for retail, household, cooking and plate loss. Source: Statistics Canada. Table 32-10-0054-01 Food available in Canada

6. Trade

6.1. Canadian potatoes trade balance (Canadian dollars)

		2015/2016	2016/2017	2017/2018	2017/2018	2019/2020
Exports	Fresh potatoes	233,167,111	275,428,020	280,944,953	257,495,783	335,034,961
	Seed potatoes	40,511,979	39,622,304	36,246,979	37,885,858	41,805,137
	Frozen potatoes	1,197,306,048	1,262,807,542	1,319,941,560	1,418,605,114	1,366,494,032
	Other processed potatoes	125,779,887	140,130,073	149,483,029	165,580,910	187,237,056
	Total exports	1,596,765,025	1,717,987,939	1,786,616,521	1,879,567,665	1,930,571,186
Imports	Fresh potatoes	99,654,770	118,680,064	112,550,356	130,053,450	113,637,525
	Seed potatoes	3,331,009	4,220,264	5,162,055	9,102,473	9,141,905
	Frozen potatoes	89,285,161	94,162,499	93,473,972	103,286,793	103,168,220
	Other processed potatoes	188,506,993	196,289,447	201,757,515	208,050,310	210,178,796
	Total imports	380,777,933	413,352,274	412,943,898	450,493,026	436,126,446
Trade balance (exports - imports)	Fresh potatoes	−59,142,791	−79,057,760	−76,303,377	−92,167,592	−71,832,388
	Seed potatoes	229,836,102	271,207,756	275,782,898	248,393,310	325,893,056
	Frozen potatoes	1,108,020,887	1,168,645,043	1,226,467,588	1,315,318,321	1,263,325,812
	Other processed potatoes	−62,727,106	−56,159,374	−52,274,486	−42,469,400	−22,941,740
	Overall trade balance	1,215,987,092	1,304,635,665	1,373,672,623	1,429,074,639	1,494,444,740
Notes: Fresh potatoes do not include seed potatoes. Frozen potatoes include uncooked potatoes, potatoes cooked by steaming or boiling water, prepared or preserved potatoes (other than by vinegar or acetic acid) in the frozen state. Other processed potatoes include potato chips; potato starch, flakes, granules and pellets; potato flour, meal and powder; and dried potatoes. Source: Statistics Canada (CATSnet, September 2020)

6.2. Canadian potato exports

6.2.1. Fresh

6.2.1.1. Monthly fresh potato exports, value (Canadian dollars)

	2015/2016	2016/2017	2017/2018	2018/2019	2019/2020
August	6,927,175	13,324,938	12,687,519	14,992,107	10,836,933
September	12,982,595	17,909,935	17,497,708	19,736,555	20,907,702
October	20,304,478	26,182,458	24,018,246	27,618,340	29,848,803
November	24,544,595	32,371,559	33,165,309	32,360,655	37,651,726
December	21,857,361	27,026,405	25,869,866	25,416,637	30,823,865
January	25,658,264	28,970,588	31,315,750	26,628,360	31,722,615
February	23,881,688	25,148,178	23,432,006	23,185,816	27,899,854
March	27,129,457	30,524,853	29,719,641	25,715,513	46,742,028
April	21,881,741	25,293,751	24,697,083	21,713,337	38,365,701
May	20,399,987	22,377,854	23,097,995	17,236,181	26,100,507
June	15,661,229	16,142,686	18,400,816	13,827,571	17,846,558
July	11,938,541	10,154,815	17,043,014	9,064,711	16,288,669
Total	233,167,111	275,428,020	280,944,953	257,495,783	335,034,961
Note: Does not include seed potatoes. Source: Statistics Canada (CATSnet, September 2020)

6.2.1.2. Monthly fresh potato exports, quantity (tonnes)

	2015/2016	2016/2017	2017/2018	2018/2019	2019/2020
August	13,339	23,565	18,471	22,414	14,998
September	20,783	22,803	22,731	28,253	26,967
October	37,233	36,613	34,825	38,510	39,966
November	41,150	46,801	51,085	47,991	49,778
December	37,744	42,376	40,249	36,608	40,333
January	42,570	49,501	49,743	38,033	43,045
February	44,695	43,688	36,650	35,139	37,631
March	53,215	56,511	46,333	38,262	58,122
April	46,014	44,652	40,359	33,359	48,018
May	43,667	43,382	41,957	25,830	34,675
June	33,449	32,878	30,516	20,841	24,976
July	26,230	19,464	29,610	10,051	19,469
Total	440,089	462,234	442,529	375,291	437,978
Note: Does not include seed potatoes. Source: Statistics Canada (CATSnet, September 2020)

6.2.1.3. Fresh potato exports by province, value (Canadian dollars)

	2015/2016	2016/2017	2017/2018	2018/2019	2019/2020
Newfoundland and Labrador	0	85	0	0	85
Prince Edward Island	66,240,326	66,125,847	86,422,481	77,257,037	98,824,358
Nova Scotia	85,551	165,999	36,319	217,710	330,623
New Brunswick	47,009,988	56,050,387	50,676,187	43,966,822	66,555,350
Quebec	24,644,320	29,177,943	35,741,181	26,224,310	46,788,951
Ontario	24,058,267	26,081,170	29,828,964	31,045,144	30,456,995
Manitoba	39,043,102	46,840,005	45,167,847	38,985,168	55,553,416
Saskatchewan	4,105,925	5,114,223	18,478,306	6,146,558	7,999,071
Alberta	22,983,840	40,397,004	10,973,311	26,884,315	21,595,660
British Columbia	4,995,792	5,475,357	3,620,357	6,768,719	6,930,452
Canada	233,167,111	275,428,020	280,944,953	257,495,783	335,034,961
Note: Does not include seed potatoes. Source: Statistics Canada (CATSnet, September 2020)

6.2.1.4. Fresh potato exports by province, volume (tonnes)

	2015/2016	2016/2017	2017/2018	2018/2019	2019/2020
Newfoundland and Labrador	0	0	0	0	0
Prince Edward Island	130,038	116,905	128,253	100,870	127,666
Nova Scotia	224	330	70	242	444
New Brunswick	92,291	107,308	86,730	74,523	89,022
Quebec	47,782	47,138	51,709	34,209	54,882
Ontario	63,328	57,602	73,094	72,733	69,058
Manitoba	83,669	96,296	80,510	62,794	65,882
Saskatchewan	4,349	5,838	12,028	6,689	7,591
Alberta	13,835	24,660	6,596	17,317	17,208
British Columbia	4,573	6,157	3,539	5,914	6,225
Canada	440,089	462,234	442,529	375,291	437,978
Note: Does not include seed potatoes. Source: Statistics Canada (CATSnet, September 2020)

6.2.1.5. Fresh potato exporting provinces – percent share

**Fresh potato exports by province (2019/2020 value)**
Province	% of share
Prince Edward Island	29%
New Brunswick	20%
Manitoba	17%
Ontario	14%
Alberta	9%
Quebec	6%
Others	5%

6.2.1.6. Fresh potato export destinations, value (Canadian dollars)

	2015/2016	2016/2017	2017/2018	2018/2019	2019/2020
United States	212,636,877	259,835,357	267,845,857	240,375,997	318,935,375
Thailand	4,784,052	2,839,142	3,205,304	7,124,286	4,542,762
Trinidad and Tobago	5,842,058	4,589,916	2,615,445	5,138,521	2,655,679
Guatemala	2,283,095	1,650,955	898,758	1,000,991	2,472,377
Indonesia	3,295,381	2,934,637	2,454,192	974,894	2,093,904
Others	4,325,648	3,578,013	3,925,397	2,881,094	4,334,864
Total	233,167,111	275,428,020	280,944,953	257,495,783	335,034,961
Note: Does not include seed potatoes. Source: Statistics Canada (CATSnet, September 2020)

6.2.1.7. Fresh potato export destinations, quantity (tonnes)

	2015/2016	2016/2017	2017/2018	2018/2019	2019/2020
United States	392,950	430,228	416,039	342,461	407,693
Thailand	9,629	5,493	6,986	15,082	8,977
Trinidad and Tobago	15,839	11,304	6,399	9,860	5,839
Guatemala	4,632	3,201	1,680	1,752	4,176
Indonesia	5,992	5,964	5,040	2,016	4,032
Others	11,047	6,044	6,385	4,120	7,261
Total	440,089	462,234	442,529	375,291	437,978
Note: Does not include seed potatoes. Source: Statistics Canada (CATSnet, September 2020)

6.2.2. Seed

6.2.2.1. Monthly seed potato exports, value (Canadian dollars)

	2015/2016	2016/2017	2017/2018	2018/2019	2019/2020
August	50,068	0	0	10,186	520
September	102	0	12,692	0	10,415
October	365,054	544,572	528,464	582,638	399,799
November	4,244,122	2,520,077	1,825,990	1,897,589	1,737,384
December	3,445,059	2,972,943	2,125,124	3,534,390	2,146,961
January	3,569,203	2,998,964	3,142,906	3,539,062	3,761,343
February	6,021,429	4,170,050	4,364,567	2,936,816	5,690,807
March	8,186,692	8,822,396	7,971,589	7,368,056	11,643,407
April	9,389,581	10,416,380	9,699,806	10,281,142	10,529,921
May	5,178,037	6,805,360	6,280,359	7,440,807	5,793,606
June	54,872	328,635	295,290	270,580	83,382
July	7,760	42,927	192	24,592	7,592
Total	40,511,979	39,622,304	36,246,979	37,885,858	41,805,137
Source: Statistics Canada (CATSnet, September 2020)

6.2.2.2. Monthly seed potato exports, quantity (tonnes)

	2015/2016	2016/2017	2017/2018	2018/2019	2019/2020
August	43	0	0	20	1
September	0	0	19	0	27
October	693	1,080	1,266	1,251	655
November	7,153	4,177	2,611	3,378	2,586
December	7,187	5,676	4,034	6,819	4,015
January	6,926	6,039	6,229	6,461	6,210
February	12,128	9,044	9,813	5,945	10,371
March	17,833	17,982	16,314	14,141	20,485
April	21,463	21,820	20,250	21,058	19,015
May	10,196	13,613	12,470	13,639	9,826
June	109	531	499	485	147
July	26	63	0	41	19
Total	83,757	80,025	73,505	73,238	73,357
Source: Statistics Canada (CATSnet, September 2020)

6.2.2.3. Seed potato exports by province, value (Canadian dollars)

	2015/2016	2016/2017	2017/2018	2018/2019	2019/2020
Newfoundland and Labrador	0	0	0	0	0
Prince Edward Island	5,958,163	5,097,552	4,498,918	5,197,556	5,096,054
Nova Scotia	1,745	34,711	36,048	155,912	11,355
New Brunswick	8,502,267	8,173,019	7,035,217	5,756,362	6,940,529
Quebec	1,476,055	1,609,945	1,446,611	1,005,200	1,230,448
Ontario	305,752	302,559	148,927	342,937	217,230
Manitoba	1,244,967	2,019,876	1,824,372	1,303,400	3,171,214
Saskatchewan	2,679,266	1,349,119	2,085,583	2,803,377	2,838,745
Alberta	16,833,172	17,861,661	16,506,359	19,181,227	20,325,036
British Columbia	3,510,592	3,173,862	2,664,944	2,139,887	1,974,526
Canada	40,511,979	39,622,304	36,246,979	37,885,858	41,805,137
Source: Statistics Canada (CATSnet, September 2020)

6.2.2.4. Seed potato exports by province, quantity (tonnes)

	2015/2016	2016/2017	2017/2018	2018/2019	2019/2020
Newfoundland and Labrador	0	0	0	0	0
Prince Edward Island	10,074	8,059	7,056	7,736	7,262
Nova Scotia	2	64	99	416	10
New Brunswick	19,742	18,612	15,144	11,478	12,361
Quebec	2,516	2,594	2,532	1,537	1,687
Ontario	421	392	227	601	390
Manitoba	2,218	3,324	3,208	2,222	4,712
Saskatchewan	4,669	2,377	3,975	5,406	4,830
Alberta	38,534	39,774	37,199	40,605	39,242
British Columbia	5,581	4,829	4,065	3,237	2,863
Canada	83,757	80,025	73,505	73,238	73,357
Source: Statistics Canada (CATSnet, September 2020)

6.2.2.5. Seed potato exporting provinces – percent share

**Seed potato exports by province (2019/2020 value)**
Province	% of share
Alberta	49%
New Brunswick	17%
Prince Edward Island	12%
Manitoba	7%
Saskatchewan	6%
British Columbia	5%
Quebec	3%
Others	1%

6.2.2.6. Seed potato export destinations, value (Canadian dollars)

	2015/2016	2016/2017	2017/2018	2018/2019	2019/2020
United States	34,188,368	36,131,237	33,266,499	35,585,150	39,459,490
Thailand	0	406,921	285,886	341,366	591,049
Uruguay	2,000,358	1,475,468	1,112,991	901,924	571,572
Indonesia	0	0	296,340	20,573	291,762
Turkey	0	0	102,000	210,494	231,542
Others	4,323,253	1,608,678	1,183,263	826,351	659,722
Total	40,511,979	39,622,304	36,246,979	37,885,858	41,805,137
Source: Statistics Canada (CATSnet, September 2020)

6.2.2.7. Seed potato export destinations, quantity (tonnes)

	2012/2013	2013/2014	2014/2015	2015/2016	2016/2017
United States	72,569	75,146	69,484	70,047	70,267
Thailand	0	486	378	422	700
Uruguay	2,113	1,777	1,317	1,117	696
Indonesia	0	0	486	26	344
Turkey	0	0	200	454	475
Others	9,075	2,616	1,640	1,172	875
Total	83,757	80,025	73,505	73,238	73,357
Source: Statistics Canada (CATSnet, September 2020)

6.2.3. Frozen

6.2.3.1. Monthly frozen potato exports, value (Canadian dollars)

	2015/2016	2016/2017	2017/2018	2018/2019	2019/2020
August	95,559,094	98,810,301	100,395,385	113,189,083	100,549,120
September	97,445,399	96,423,943	98,554,869	106,747,718	101,375,251
October	102,874,893	107,312,867	107,680,121	127,058,602	125,830,547
November	100,244,557	108,767,668	108,029,361	119,621,962	118,400,997
December	97,418,204	95,763,016	98,466,263	109,892,410	118,550,444
January	93,096,030	101,098,816	102,466,574	117,837,493	117,383,144
February	97,182,029	89,101,209	99,394,397	104,940,320	119,400,872
March	109,337,746	109,966,472	123,878,655	124,133,259	125,101,751
April	101,540,700	115,102,402	120,506,174	124,008,163	87,182,425
May	104,341,058	120,838,484	120,424,943	128,670,193	111,426,262
June	98,620,671	113,104,504	122,489,667	123,521,147	116,219,147
July	99,645,667	106,517,860	117,655,151	118,984,764	125,074,072
Total	1,197,306,048	1,262,807,542	1,319,941,560	1,418,605,114	1,366,494,032
Source: Statistics Canada (CATSnet, September 2020)

6.2.3.2. Monthly frozen potato exports, quantity (kilograms)

	2015/2016	2016/2017	2017/2018	2018/2019	2019/2020
August	75,904,633	82,679,475	87,187,446	87,998,204	71,877,016
September	78,696,061	76,799,720	85,702,065	83,046,308	78,954,507
October	84,123,416	86,273,521	89,593,511	97,335,618	92,984,746
November	78,723,679	86,764,659	89,311,384	88,816,914	87,719,955
December	78,218,832	76,312,473	80,523,476	80,611,920	86,008,398
January	73,268,155	81,852,825	84,844,942	86,026,491	87,035,715
February	77,083,718	72,954,916	81,842,159	77,732,090	87,920,075
March	89,410,211	88,057,996	98,236,568	89,830,043	87,770,137
April	85,026,830	92,040,353	97,320,047	89,927,713	61,178,561
May	87,795,092	95,908,687	96,937,227	94,615,543	78,015,007
June	83,044,749	91,441,335	95,230,201	90,065,225	85,486,335
July	82,551,342	90,612,216	91,767,363	89,613,692	92,612,154
Total	973,846,718	1,021,698,176	1,078,496,389	1,055,619,761	997,562,606
Source: Statistics Canada (CATSnet, September 2020)

6.2.3.3. Frozen potato exports by province, value (Canadian dollars)

	2015/2016	2016/2017	2017/2018	2018/2019	2019/2020
Newfoundland and Labrador	0	0	0	105,155	106
Prince Edward Island	267,651,226	317,054,927	302,683,946	286,514,421	369,230,524
Nova Scotia	1,415,516	638,646	753,221	785,448	282,889
New Brunswick	219,488,312	175,030,339	178,626,721	256,189,824	155,082,411
Quebec	6,670,932	2,498,039	3,946,632	3,360,014	2,339,389
Ontario	26,597,273	39,428,427	66,054,340	65,989,330	45,282,359
Manitoba	346,742,182	394,643,790	431,716,926	416,671,362	438,254,648
Saskatchewan	440,874	16,822	128,183	280,243	24,245
Alberta	325,698,881	332,431,280	334,531,637	387,654,704	352,490,824
British Columbia	2,600,852	1,065,272	1,499,954	1,054,613	3,506,637
Canada	1,197,306,048	1,262,807,542	1,319,941,560	1,418,605,114	1,366,494,032
Source: Statistics Canada (CATSnet, September 2020)

6.2.3.4. Frozen potato exports by province, quantity (kilograms)

	2015/2016	2016/2017	2017/2018	2018/2019	2019/2020
Newfoundland and Labrador	0	0	0	45,237	86
Prince Edward Island	211,218,884	242,568,381	228,825,031	200,951,240	242,917,152
Nova Scotia	934,449	514,107	613,888	574,429	396,477
New Brunswick	168,086,432	133,220,164	144,022,932	169,669,294	107,508,537
Quebec	5,255,802	1,836,467	2,995,304	2,716,079	1,852,653
Ontario	20,623,170	28,670,281	49,240,940	44,316,281	28,776,464
Manitoba	338,428,836	384,633,212	418,011,308	391,822,273	385,677,193
Saskatchewan	234,212	18,517	104,181	229,487	17,636
Alberta	227,382,799	229,785,038	233,921,312	244,790,570	227,956,596
British Columbia	1,682,134	452,009	761,493	504,871	2,459,812
Canada	973,846,718	1,021,698,176	1,078,496,389	1,055,619,761	997,562,606
Source: Statistics Canada (CATSnet, September 2020)

6.2.3.5. Frozen potato exporting provinces – percent share

**Frozen potato exports by province (2018/2019 value)**
Province	% of share
Manitoba	32%
Prince Edward Island	27%
Alberta	26%
New Brunswick	11%
Others	4%

6.2.3.6. Frozen potato export destinations, value (Canadian dollars)

	2015/2016	2016/2017	2017/2018	2018/2019	2019/2020
United States	1,014,525,172	1,077,309,645	1,136,024,076	1,196,225,957	1,208,049,015
Mexico	28,092,388	26,669,151	34,100,361	58,780,824	34,340,576
South Korea	18,415,390	24,987,259	26,760,274	32,861,240	31,653,652
Japan	27,658,688	25,056,650	26,256,578	29,561,769	20,139,472
Taiwan	10,280,505	11,494,172	11,455,901	15,018,732	14,930,402
Others	98,333,905	97,290,665	85,344,370	86,156,592	57,380,915
Total	1,197,306,048	1,262,807,542	1,319,941,560	1,418,605,114	1,366,494,032
Source: Statistics Canada (CATSnet, September 2020)

6.2.3.7. Frozen potato export destinations, quantity (kilograms)

	2015/2016	2016/2017	2017/2018	2018/2019	2019/2020
United States	839,944,762	893,555,663	942,310,745	905,818,858	876,338,099
Mexico	25,161,855	25,931,772	32,874,216	46,448,006	31,156,628
South Korea	8,277,053	11,614,340	14,406,114	16,935,556	17,920,274
Japan	19,229,564	17,338,459	18,678,064	19,939,108	18,324,559
Taiwan	5,986,566	6,396,385	6,438,636	8,191,838	10,344,807
Others	75,246,918	66,861,557	63,788,614	58,286,395	43,478,239
Total	973,846,718	1,021,698,176	1,078,496,389	1,055,619,761	997,562,606
Source: Statistics Canada (CATSnet, September 2020)

6.2.4. Processed

6.2.4.1. Monthly other processed potato exports, value (Canadian dollars)

	2015/2016	2016/2017	2017/2018	2018/2019	2019/2020
August	10,356,481	12,458,344	11,682,434	12,757,608	13,185,961
September	8,904,084	10,214,482	8,289,964	12,571,981	13,631,404
October	9,180,277	10,357,903	12,904,294	13,598,254	14,330,431
November	9,827,171	10,800,664	12,295,447	13,751,427	14,629,596
December	10,955,545	11,233,665	9,624,409	13,245,510	14,816,938
January	10,525,198	10,279,741	13,488,963	14,334,262	15,370,179
February	10,231,198	10,683,765	9,632,294	12,436,997	14,039,703
March	11,322,872	11,280,565	11,857,313	13,448,835	15,325,945
April	10,561,210	12,494,862	14,310,556	15,239,273	15,751,485
May	11,844,924	13,871,120	16,216,552	14,893,290	18,838,788
June	11,417,390	14,050,767	14,412,924	15,610,593	19,410,938
July	10,653,537	12,404,195	14,767,879	13,692,880	17,905,688
Total	125,779,887	140,130,073	149,483,029	165,580,910	187,237,056
Source: Statistics Canada (CATSnet, September 2020)

6.2.4.2. Monthly other processed potato exports, quantity (kilograms)

	2015/2016	2016/2017	2017/2018	2018/2019	2019/2020
August	4,796,064	5,648,647	4,987,536	5,039,647	4,269,296
September	4,353,276	4,782,107	3,948,821	5,288,285	5,123,483
October	4,609,347	4,856,650	5,554,738	5,356,941	5,208,371
November	4,776,366	4,387,909	4,752,843	4,819,338	4,931,822
December	5,442,078	4,753,618	3,882,619	4,633,114	4,947,017
January	5,070,373	4,952,314	5,651,373	4,988,972	5,319,241
February	4,752,848	4,812,217	4,275,359	4,622,609	4,644,989
March	5,400,058	4,752,907	4,837,501	4,614,330	4,953,188
April	4,762,757	5,001,241	5,630,487	5,116,668	4,446,348
May	5,247,002	5,236,046	6,104,075	5,275,306	5,708,295
June	5,022,646	5,438,652	5,274,536	5,339,671	6,501,942
July	4,402,111	5,367,116	5,637,262	4,917,230	6,233,192
Total	58,634,926	59,989,424	60,537,150	60,012,111	62,287,184
Source: Statistics Canada (CATSnet, September 2020)

6.2.4.3. Other processed potato exports by province, value (Canadian dollars)

	2015/2016	2016/2017	2017/2018	2018/2019	2019/2020
Newfoundland and Labrador	6,967	7,391	5,567	5,266	3,260
Prince Edward Island	21,766,746	20,742,013	18,163,392	13,229,504	16,754,417
Nova Scotia	659,551	494,305	445,466	517,814	432,575
New Brunswick	20,321,573	20,422,805	19,427,177	20,623,752	30,540,012
Quebec	1,108,714	1,056,347	1,020,493	1,644,866	5,399,590
Ontario	59,413,066	81,791,967	96,497,636	111,707,245	120,240,690
Manitoba	2,430,813	2,752,417	2,987,056	4,340,106	1,997,643
Saskatchewan	0	0	0	4,438	0
Alberta	19,893,434	12,386,595	9,971,990	12,737,367	10,130,554
British Columbia	179,023	476,233	964,252	770,552	1,738,315
Canada	125,779,887	140,130,073	149,483,029	165,580,910	187,237,056
Source: Statistics Canada (CATSnet, September 2020)

6.2.4.4. Other processed potato exports by province, quantity (kilograms)

	2015/2016	2016/2017	2017/2018	2018/2019	2019/2020
Newfoundland and Labrador	1,279	1,356	1,020	837	597
Prince Edward Island	15,905,101	14,236,827	12,857,331	8,987,785	9,292,923
Nova Scotia	767,241	626,418	547,722	531,916	386,266
New Brunswick	12,390,797	13,336,257	12,878,127	12,427,787	15,931,168
Quebec	1,704,042	1,479,668	1,396,771	1,454,874	2,042,204
Ontario	13,694,880	17,248,543	20,177,478	22,374,262	23,493,787
Manitoba	1,392,556	1,520,574	1,748,512	2,431,466	848,565
Saskatchewan	0	0	0	35,835	0
Alberta	12,764,275	11,446,095	10,803,791	11,654,391	10,058,435
British Columbia	14,755	93,686	126,398	112,958	233,239
Canada	58,634,926	59,989,424	60,537,150	60,012,111	62,287,184
Source: Statistics Canada (CATSnet, September 2020)

6.2.4.5. Other processed potato export destinations, value (Canadian dollars)

	2015/2016	2016/2017	2017/2018	2018/2019	2019/2020
United States	113,214,234	127,256,399	132,933,824	154,214,610	176,472,944
Argentina	0	3,339,832	8,158,677	5,031,955	4,743,530
Belgium	2,196,596	1,765,650	1,138,413	1,736,462	1,840,775
Japan	1,529,800	1,909,274	1,712,423	522,983	1,425,037
Brazil	706,372	863,739	639,022	500,793	409,309
Others	8,132,885	4,995,179	4,900,670	3,574,107	2,345,461
Total	125,779,887	140,130,073	149,483,029	165,580,910	187,237,056
Source: Statistics Canada (CATSnet, September 2020)

6.2.4.6. Other processed potato export destinations, quantity (kilograms)

	2015/2016	2016/2017	2017/2018	2018/2019	2019/2020
United States	54,143,048	57,117,673	56,676,490	57,635,936	60,412,857
Argentina	0	606,651	1,476,674	922,902	865,446
Belgium	850,818	369,904	136,865	198,337	272,013
Brazil	233,613	341,307	275,973	73,671	205,383
Japan	103,363	160,751	117,312	91,887	75,465
Others	3,304,084	1,393,138	1,853,836	1,089,378	456,020
Total	58,634,926	59,989,424	60,537,150	60,012,111	62,287,184
Source: Statistics Canada (CATSnet, September 2020)

6.2.5. All potato products

6.2.5.1. Monthly exports of all potato products, value (Canadian dollars)

	2015/2016	2016/2017	2017/2018	2018/2019	2019/2020
August	112,892,818	124,593,583	124,765,338	140,948,984	124,572,534
September	119,332,180	124,548,360	124,355,233	139,056,254	135,924,772
October	132,724,702	144,397,800	145,131,125	168,857,834	170,409,580
November	138,860,445	154,459,968	155,316,107	167,631,633	172,419,703
December	133,676,169	136,996,029	136,085,662	152,088,947	166,338,208
January	132,848,695	143,348,109	150,414,193	162,339,177	168,237,281
February	137,316,344	129,103,202	136,823,264	143,499,949	167,031,236
March	155,976,767	160,594,286	173,427,198	170,665,663	198,813,131
April	143,373,232	163,307,395	169,213,619	171,241,915	151,829,532
May	141,764,006	163,892,818	166,019,849	168,240,471	162,159,163
June	125,754,162	143,626,592	155,598,697	153,229,891	153,560,025
July	122,245,505	129,119,797	149,466,236	141,766,947	159,276,021
Total	1,596,765,025	1,717,987,939	1,786,616,521	1,879,567,665	1,930,571,186
Source: Statistics Canada (CATSnet, September 2020)

6.2.5.2. Exports of all potato products by province, value (Canadian dollars)

	2015/2016	2016/2017	2017/2018	2018/2019	2019/2020
Newfoundland and Labrador	6,967	7,476	5,567	110,421	3,451
Prince Edward Island	361,616,461	409,020,339	411,768,737	382,198,518	489,905,353
Nova Scotia	2,162,363	1,333,661	1,271,054	1,676,884	1,057,442
New Brunswick	295,322,140	259,676,550	255,765,302	326,536,760	259,118,302
Quebec	33,900,021	34,342,274	42,154,917	32,234,390	55,758,378
Ontario	110,374,358	147,604,123	192,529,867	209,084,656	196,197,274
Manitoba	389,461,064	446,256,088	481,696,201	461,300,036	498,976,921
Saskatchewan	7,226,065	6,480,164	20,692,072	9,234,616	10,862,061
Alberta	385,409,327	403,076,540	371,983,297	446,457,613	404,542,074
British Columbia	11,286,259	10,190,724	8,749,507	10,733,771	14,149,930
Canada	1,596,765,025	1,717,987,939	1,786,616,521	1,879,567,665	1,930,571,186
Source: Statistics Canada (CATSnet, September 2020)

6.2.5.3. Destinations of overall potato exports, value (Canadian dollars)

	2015/2016	2016/2017	2017/2018	2018/2019	2019/2020
United States	1,374,564,651	1,500,532,638	1,570,070,256	1,626,401,714	1,742,916,824
Mexico	28,134,221	26,669,151	34,116,205	58,780,824	34,340,576
South Korea	18,415,409	24,987,259	26,760,274	32,861,240	31,653,652
Japan	29,188,488	26,965,924	27,969,001	30,084,752	21,564,509
Taiwan	10,282,080	11,521,902	11,514,035	15,067,116	14,954,938
Others	136,180,176	127,311,065	116,186,750	116,372,019	85,140,687
Total	1,596,765,025	1,717,987,939	1,786,616,521	1,879,567,665	1,930,571,186
Source: Statistics Canada (CATSnet, September 2020)

6.3. Canadian potato imports

6.3.1. Fresh

6.3.1.1. Monthly fresh potato imports, value (Canadian dollars)

	2015/2016	2016/2017	2017/2018	2018/2019	2019/2020
August	9,209,641	11,598,216	16,521,983	13,904,577	17,175,201
September	4,307,432	7,484,112	6,204,093	9,002,911	8,594,437
October	4,106,041	4,329,213	3,553,113	3,893,996	4,533,225
November	4,089,946	4,577,690	3,948,345	3,955,330	3,847,842
December	4,229,853	4,328,735	4,276,798	4,376,893	5,304,530
January	4,161,658	3,154,852	4,407,083	4,613,213	6,670,265
February	4,624,523	3,947,144	4,505,685	6,116,701	8,085,631
March	4,532,272	4,595,407	6,103,099	6,813,073	9,531,616
April	5,697,378	7,311,788	5,399,970	9,255,542	6,419,362
May	13,653,961	17,940,634	16,703,542	15,316,971	8,162,108
June	21,543,643	24,584,409	21,075,586	26,233,731	14,854,988
July	19,498,422	24,827,864	19,851,059	26,570,512	20,458,320
Total	99,654,770	118,680,064	112,550,356	130,053,450	113,637,525
Note: Does not include seed potatoes. Source: Statistics Canada (CATSnet, September 2020)

6.3.1.2. Monthly fresh potato imports, quantity (tonnes)

	2015/2016	2016/2017	2017/2018	2018/2019	2019/2020
August	13,715	12,521	18,236	15,574	20,102
September	7,065	9,959	8,742	10,187	8,703
October	6,614	6,223	5,285	6,910	5,820
November	5,811	7,068	7,753	8,412	5,631
December	7,092	7,276	8,574	9,369	17,671
January	6,035	6,160	9,071	10,033	174,129
February	7,001	7,937	8,578	12,588	57,480
March	6,824	9,411	11,024	15,109	92,568
April	8,423	12,046	10,264	21,094	97,653
May	15,870	19,913	17,714	29,766	175,239
June	23,096	27,508	21,940	34,419	30,702
July	26,000	40,665	20,388	42,301	175,834
Total	133,546	166,687	147,569	215,762	861,532
Note: Does not include seed potatoes. Source: Statistics Canada (CATSnet, September 2020)

6.3.1.3. Fresh potato imports by province, value (Canadian dollars)

	2015/2016	2016/2017	2017/2018	2018/2019	2019/2020
Nova Scotia	0	2,302,196	6,454,631	8,180,696	0
New Brunswick	5,151,780	7,699,823	7,373,088	10,650,285	6,702,703
Quebec	1,100,494	1,149,417	700,859	1,494,210	1,432,384
Ontario	31,678,869	38,227,158	29,577,170	35,451,978	37,554,885
Manitoba	1,053,787	1,841,507	1,662,186	7,149,563	5,250,105
Saskatchewan	567,144	687,803	507,567	755,249	556,118
Alberta	15,774,181	16,985,553	15,988,123	16,095,256	10,384,711
British Columbia	44,328,515	49,786,607	50,286,732	50,276,213	51,756,619
Total	99,654,770	118,680,064	112,550,356	130,053,450	113,637,525
Note: Does not include seed potatoes. Source: Statistics Canada (CATSnet, September 2020)

6.3.1.4. Fresh potato imports by province, quantity (tonnes)

	2015/2016	2016/2017	2017/2018	2018/2019	2019/2020
Nova Scotia	0	1,124	3,354	4,126	0
New Brunswick	16,967	20,264	31,080	33,449	162,966
Quebec	1,760	2,137	840	2,750	3,678
Ontario	35,757	50,821	31,336	48,172	238,609
Manitoba	1,507	2,483	2,542	22,139	14,822
Saskatchewan	822	689	603	2,205	668
Alberta	10,062	16,043	10,797	37,161	195,082
British Columbia	66,671	73,126	67,017	65,760	245,707
Canada	133,546	166,687	147,569	215,762	861,532
Note: Does not include seed potatoes. Source: Statistics Canada (CATSnet, September 2020)

6.3.1.5. Fresh potato importing provinces – percent share

6.3.1.6. Fresh potato imports by country of origin, value (Canadian dollars)

	2015/2016	2016/2017	2017/2018	2018/2019	2019/2020
United States	99,552,481	118,569,738	112,415,770	129,807,588	113,527,432
Others	102,289	110,326	134,586	245,862	110,093
Total	99,654,770	118,680,064	112,550,356	130,053,450	113,637,525
Note: Does not include seed potatoes. Source: Statistics Canada (CATSnet, September 2020)

6.3.1.7. Fresh potato imports by country of origin, quantity (tonnes)

	2015/2016	2016/2017	2017/2018	2018/2019	2019/2020
United States	133,400	166,542	147,372	215,420	861,389
Others	146	145	197	342	143
Total	133,546	166,687	147,569	215,762	861,532
Note: Does not include seed potatoes. Source: Statistics Canada (CATSnet, September 2020)

6.3.2. Seed

6.3.2.1. Monthly seed potato imports, value (Canadian dollars)

	2015/2016	2016/2017	2017/2018	2018/2019	2019/2020
August	0	0	0	0	0
September	0	0	136	0	1
October	0	33	55,979	1	0
November	0	89,887	327,718	580,556	0
December	486,778	283,702	0	1	15
January	0	0	97	199	183
February	0	7	0	0	279
March	717,385	351,235	417,578	513,551	847,917
April	1,490,264	1,916,160	2,026,376	4,763,453	5,818,568
May	619,809	1,510,590	2,291,226	3,169,523	2,461,856
June	16,773	68,650	39,982	65,047	13,086
July	0	0	2,963	10,142	0
Total	3,331,009	4,220,264	5,162,055	9,102,473	9,141,905
Source: Statistics Canada (CATSnet, September 2020)

6.3.2.2. Monthly seed potato imports, quantity (tonnes)

	2015/2016	2016/2017	2017/2018	2018/2019	2019/2020
August	0	0	0	0	0
September	0	0	2	0	0
October	0	0	184	0	0
November	0	217	1,060	1,427	0
December	1,167	685	0	0	0
January	0	0	0	0	0
February	0	0	0	0	1
March	1,748	897	1,228	1,308	2,155
April	4,303	5,145	5,732	12,073	14,161
May	1,806	4,511	6,671	4,744	3,937
June	36	281	113	121	22
July	0	0	9	28	0
Total	9,060	11,736	14,999	19,701	20,276
Source: Statistics Canada (CATSnet, September 2020)

6.3.2.3. Seed potato imports by province, value (Canadian dollars)

	2015/2016	2016/2017	2017/2018	2018/2019	2019/2020
New Brunswick	815,422	1,707,700	1,754,545	2,734,378	2,948,307
Quebec	85,009	74,027	59,505	176,972	136,631
Ontario	721,029	880,849	1,335,642	2,300,252	2,851,112
Manitoba	1,483,340	1,099,616	1,304,244	1,874,286	1,014,011
Saskatchewan	22,789	103,190	148,523	404,783	311,342
Alberta	115,252	186,869	360,973	1,233,830	1,512,453
British Columbia	88,168	168,013	198,623	377,972	368,034
Canada	3,331,009	4,220,264	5,162,055	9,102,473	9,141,905
Source: Statistics Canada (CATSnet, September 2020)

6.3.2.4. Seed potato imports by province, quantity (tonnes)

	2015/2016	2016/2017	2017/2018	2018/2019	2019/2020
New Brunswick	2,515	5,230	5,298	7,213	7,050
Quebec	217	201	159	353	180
Ontario	1,970	2,113	3,842	5,489	7,773
Manitoba	3,720	2,865	3,861	3,527	1,754
Saskatchewan	60	259	442	143	225
Alberta	444	735	984	2,304	2,784
British Columbia	134	333	413	672	510
Canada	9,060	11,736	14,999	19,701	20,276
Source: Statistics Canada (CATSnet, September 2020)

6.3.2.5. Seed potato importing provinces – percent share

6.3.2.6. Seed potato imports by country of origin, value (Canadian dollars)

	2015/2016	2016/2017	2017/2018	2018/2019	2019/2020
United States	3,309,717	4,220,242	5,162,004	9,102,473	9,141,760
Others	21,292	22	51	0	145
Total	3,331,009	4,220,264	5,162,055	9,102,473	9,141,905
Source: Statistics Canada (CATSnet, September 2020)

6.3.2.7. Seed potato imports by country of origin, quantity (tonnes)

	2015/2016	2016/2017	2017/2018	2018/2019	2019/2020
United States	9,010	11,736	14,999	19,701	20,276
Others	50	0	0	0	0
Total	9,060	11,736	14,999	19,701	20,276
Source: Statistics Canada (CATSnet, September 2020)

6.3.3. Frozen

6.3.3.1. Monthly frozen potato imports, value (Canadian dollars)

	2015/2016	2016/2017	2017/2018	2018/2019	2019/2020
August	6,604,215	7,083,141	9,308,201	8,292,438	9,537,388
September	7,893,583	7,992,578	7,016,928	8,032,584	11,009,378
October	7,697,466	8,334,722	8,249,866	8,359,779	10,527,284
November	7,726,847	8,448,833	7,082,935	8,639,502	9,994,664
December	8,368,227	7,080,858	7,519,526	8,098,799	10,157,571
January	7,793,054	8,039,541	7,108,582	7,936,674	9,049,454
February	6,477,868	7,377,472	6,978,816	6,794,757	8,411,668
March	7,468,734	9,300,061	7,860,828	8,000,284	8,056,504
April	6,805,309	7,378,241	7,203,555	9,332,888	4,694,342
May	6,804,750	7,938,944	8,158,835	10,583,629	6,384,664
June	8,074,734	7,507,940	8,478,553	9,674,956	7,998,037
July	7,570,374	7,680,168	8,507,347	9,540,503	7,347,266
Total	89,285,161	94,162,499	93,473,972	103,286,793	103,168,220
Source: Statistics Canada (CATSnet, September 2020)

6.3.3.2. Monthly frozen potato imports, quantity (kilograms)

	2015/2016	2016/2017	2017/2018	2018/2019	2019/2020
August	3,552,242	3,820,333	5,481,651	4,077,141	5,310,908
September	4,036,691	4,100,076	4,074,364	4,125,823	5,844,722
October	3,742,424	4,437,105	4,606,422	5,138,302	6,185,554
November	3,701,369	4,248,508	3,887,046	4,262,711	5,503,263
December	3,629,506	3,488,416	4,346,614	4,197,137	5,422,436
January	3,770,878	4,404,877	4,064,091	4,170,224	5,011,388
February	3,190,178	4,068,317	4,008,431	3,770,251	4,288,899
March	3,464,503	4,696,257	4,417,705	4,084,787	4,316,391
April	3,798,246	4,079,451	3,989,591	4,668,473	2,654,483
May	3,796,431	4,665,676	4,420,735	5,736,885	3,919,679
June	3,825,614	3,478,562	4,440,976	5,532,455	4,970,505
July	3,952,737	4,526,277	4,511,069	5,328,937	4,105,506
Total	44,460,819	50,013,855	52,248,695	55,093,126	57,533,734
Source: Statistics Canada (CATSnet, September 2020)

6.3.3.3. Frozen potato imports by province, value (Canadian dollars)

	2015/2016	2016/2017	2017/2018	2018/2019	2019/2020
Nova Scotia	340,836	702	142	0	630
New Brunswick	13,419,727	17,887,526	16,759,847	15,910,374	13,435,772
Quebec	2,183,957	2,530,034	3,132,343	4,490,108	5,462,866
Ontario	34,451,977	26,427,471	23,450,237	32,847,524	38,180,030
Manitoba	9,731,869	10,658,615	8,188,591	10,221,173	12,210,804
Saskatchewan	1,092,858	707,378	1,591,319	1,540,807	2,440,529
Alberta	5,068,555	4,828,505	5,618,219	9,563,035	8,970,275
British Columbia	22,995,382	31,122,268	34,733,274	28,713,772	22,467,314
Canada	89,285,161	94,162,499	93,473,972	103,286,793	103,168,220
Source: Statistics Canada (CATSnet, September 2020)

6.3.3.4. Frozen potato imports by province, quantity (kilograms)

	2015/2016	2016/2017	2017/2018	2018/2019	2019/2020
Nova Scotia	254,518	600	80	0	385
New Brunswick	11,766,747	16,105,935	18,828,896	17,141,157	15,745,990
Quebec	791,472	748,663	1,167,765	2,652,982	2,800,843
Ontario	13,451,298	11,318,080	9,754,734	13,243,264	17,044,798
Manitoba	5,848,785	6,497,154	4,925,110	5,795,941	6,875,950
Saskatchewan	633,842	626,759	1,193,199	1,102,756	1,590,691
Alberta	1,756,917	1,782,756	2,019,734	3,952,706	4,460,670
British Columbia	9,957,240	12,933,908	14,359,177	11,204,320	9,014,407
Canada	44,460,819	50,013,855	52,248,695	55,093,126	57,533,734
Source: Statistics Canada (CATSnet, September 2020)

6.3.3.5. Frozen potato imports by country of origin, value (Canadian dollars)

	2015/2016	2016/2017	2017/2018	2018/2019	2019/2020
United States	85,397,428	88,415,991	87,365,192	93,262,196	89,767,444
Belgium	903,049	1,042,252	1,766,200	4,421,025	7,056,520
France	438,212	711,586	1,195,405	1,105,571	1,404,681
Italy	131,190	172,303	161,783	171,801	138,083
Japan	82,812	131,616	125,138	83,778	130,738
Others	2,332,470	3,688,751	2,860,254	4,242,422	4,670,754
Total	89,285,161	94,162,499	93,473,972	103,286,793	103,168,220
Source: Statistics Canada (CATSnet, September 2020)

6.3.3.6. Frozen potato imports by country of origin, quantity (kilograms)

	2015/2016	2016/2017	2017/2018	2018/2019	2019/2020
United States	42,338,148	46,819,843	48,991,667	47,850,722	48,310,080
Belgium	306,561	332,948	646,851	3,675,330	5,246,615
France	226,029	211,943	421,342	379,632	350,012
Italy	35,283	49,537	45,164	49,584	40,455
Japan	24,993	34,777	34,060	22,693	22,815
Others	1,529,805	2,564,807	2,109,611	3,115,165	3,563,757
Total	44,460,819	50,013,855	52,248,695	55,093,126	57,533,734
Source: Statistics Canada (CATSnet, September 2020)

6.3.4. Other processed potato products

6.3.4.1. Monthly other processed potato imports, value (Canadian dollars)

	2015/2016	2016/2017	2017/2018	2018/2019	2019/2020
August	15,513,192	17,506,120	18,470,105	18,364,688	18,282,923
September	14,921,942	15,936,184	16,219,934	16,810,283	16,732,483
October	15,397,455	15,710,897	14,977,071	15,246,433	17,959,773
November	13,787,416	15,314,414	16,123,225	15,992,276	15,701,345
December	16,230,095	14,136,428	15,368,915	15,383,361	18,114,621
January	12,845,130	12,460,871	13,464,381	16,319,730	16,929,307
February	14,057,921	12,435,885	13,898,566	13,554,349	14,701,973
March	15,535,610	15,760,218	17,403,668	17,052,558	16,772,201
April	16,204,114	15,882,214	14,885,776	17,360,138	17,003,870
May	17,110,326	18,415,811	19,610,977	19,014,391	18,404,802
June	17,912,598	20,456,749	18,652,783	19,548,279	18,303,563
July	17,919,374	19,957,895	20,088,272	19,920,377	18,160,480
Total	187,435,173	193,973,686	199,163,673	204,566,863	207,067,341
Source: Statistics Canada (CATSnet, September 2020)

6.3.4.2. Monthly other processed potato imports, quantity (kilograms)

	2015/2016	2016/2017	2017/2018	2018/2019	2019/2020
August	4,875,038	5,563,257	5,511,802	5,241,878	5,794,346
September	4,559,674	4,515,123	5,014,259	5,340,974	5,621,028
October	4,476,776	4,717,843	4,516,429	4,927,726	5,518,844
November	4,052,027	4,480,281	4,552,761	4,807,016	4,749,642
December	4,873,612	3,796,763	4,418,567	4,724,984	5,199,458
January	3,869,364	3,964,197	4,329,987	5,127,767	5,237,140
February	4,275,808	3,687,109	4,215,958	4,259,152	4,716,039
March	4,556,210	4,740,083	5,465,897	5,755,203	5,296,262
April	5,032,051	4,670,275	4,493,043	5,320,354	5,111,206
May	5,480,263	5,426,987	6,056,832	5,915,403	5,786,962
June	5,581,249	6,034,695	5,421,807	6,482,561	6,438,554
July	5,563,067	6,292,621	5,923,369	6,338,797	5,812,809
Total	57,195,139	57,889,234	59,920,711	64,241,815	65,282,290
Source: Statistics Canada (CATSnet, September 2020)

6.3.4.3. Other processed potato imports by province, value (Canadian dollars)

	2015/2016	2016/2017	2017/2018	2018/2019	2019/2020
Newfoundland and Labrador	3,110	114	5,929	3,685	1,008
Prince Edward Island	0	0	0	0	0
Nova Scotia	23,872	16,794	20,233	25,545	138,775
New Brunswick	1,018,019	1,205,200	1,213,401	1,296,493	1,230,353
Quebec	12,617,132	10,800,457	8,568,368	5,580,583	4,955,348
Ontario	107,996,408	113,641,954	118,738,333	126,252,441	128,349,722
Manitoba	5,675,514	7,804,640	8,299,324	6,125,741	4,433,395
Saskatchewan	1,537,039	1,599,369	1,031,905	880,976	1,280,117
Alberta	10,907,113	13,146,880	10,799,334	10,810,972	11,365,485
British Columbia	47,656,966	45,758,278	50,486,846	53,590,427	55,313,138
Canada	187,435,173	193,973,686	199,163,673	204,566,863	207,067,341
Source: Statistics Canada (CATSnet, September 2020)

6.3.4.4. Other processed potato imports by province, quantity (kilograms)

	2015/2016	2016/2017	2017/2018	2018/2019	2019/2020
Newfoundland and Labrador	260	5	383	159	57
Prince Edward Island	0	0	0	0	0
Nova Scotia	3,393	1,012	1,022	902	67,835
New Brunswick	613,122	695,785	751,539	756,355	700,834
Quebec	3,555,974	2,819,546	2,802,622	2,133,552	2,521,418
Ontario	33,713,515	34,106,855	35,440,338	40,532,478	40,965,464
Manitoba	1,422,440	1,846,543	1,937,472	1,455,649	1,860,627
Saskatchewan	462,353	353,233	234,919	219,725	323,825
Alberta	2,194,583	2,605,416	2,394,429	2,216,822	2,398,353
British Columbia	15,229,499	15,460,839	16,357,987	16,926,173	16,443,877
Canada	57,195,139	57,889,234	59,920,711	64,241,815	65,282,290
Source: Statistics Canada (CATSnet, September 2020)

6.3.4.5. Other processed potato imports by country of origin, value (Canadian dollars)

	2015/2016	2016/2017	2017/2018	2018/2019	2019/2020
United States	163,575,548	169,603,759	174,043,742	179,302,082	178,565,699
Mexico	9,912,610	10,453,701	8,787,220	7,726,684	6,689,495
Denmark	3,110,263	3,277,881	3,169,597	3,907,961	4,737,352
Germany	1,643,536	1,698,672	2,670,477	3,012,806	3,713,683
Netherlands	1,703,033	1,771,860	1,896,858	2,523,598	3,307,061
Others	7,490,183	7,167,813	8,595,779	8,093,732	10,054,051
Total	187,435,173	193,973,686	199,163,673	204,566,863	207,067,341
Source: Statistics Canada (CATSnet, September 2020)

6.3.4.6. Other processed potato imports by country of origin, quantity (kilograms)

	2015/2016	2016/2017	2017/2018	2018/2019	2019/2020
United States	47,552,968	48,621,471	50,967,662	54,862,352	52,974,714
Mexico	1,840,070	1,602,914	631,155	1,058,768	1,483,489
Denmark	2,695,247	2,721,368	2,524,353	2,663,640	3,709,346
Germany	1,073,002	1,049,114	1,560,132	1,781,460	2,192,939
Netherlands	1,560,263	1,482,031	1,619,563	1,667,452	2,101,373
Others	2,473,589	2,412,336	2,617,846	2,208,143	2,820,429
Total	57,195,139	57,889,234	59,920,711	64,241,815	65,282,290
Source: Statistics Canada (CATSnet, September 2020)

6.3.5. All potato products

6.3.5.1. Monthly imports of all potato products, value (Canadian dollars)

	2015/2016	2016/2017	2017/2018	2018/2019	2019/2020
August	31,327,048	36,187,477	44,300,289	40,561,703	44,995,512
September	27,122,957	31,412,874	29,441,091	33,845,778	36,336,299
October	27,200,962	28,374,865	26,836,029	27,500,209	33,020,282
November	25,604,209	28,430,824	27,482,223	29,167,664	29,543,851
December	29,314,953	25,829,723	27,165,239	27,859,054	33,576,737
January	24,799,842	23,655,264	24,980,143	28,869,816	32,649,209
February	25,160,312	23,760,508	25,383,067	26,465,807	31,199,551
March	28,254,001	30,006,921	31,785,173	32,379,466	35,208,238
April	30,197,065	32,488,403	29,515,677	40,712,021	33,936,142
May	38,188,846	45,805,979	46,764,580	48,084,514	35,413,430
June	47,547,748	52,617,748	48,246,904	55,522,013	41,169,674
July	44,988,170	52,465,927	48,449,641	56,041,534	45,966,066
Total	379,706,113	411,036,513	410,350,056	447,009,579	433,014,991
Source: Statistics Canada (CATSnet, September 2020)

6.3.5.2. Imports of all potato products by province, value (Canadian dollars)

	2015/2016	2016/2017	2017/2018	2018/2019	2019/2020
Newfoundland and Labrador	3,110	114	5,929	3,685	1,008
Prince Edward Island	0	0	0	0	15
Nova Scotia	364,708	2,319,692	6,475,006	8,206,241	139,405
New Brunswick	20,404,948	28,500,249	27,100,881	30,591,530	24,317,135
Quebec	15,986,592	14,553,935	12,461,075	11,741,873	11,987,229
Ontario	174,848,283	179,177,432	173,101,382	196,852,195	206,935,749
Manitoba	17,944,510	21,404,378	19,454,345	25,370,763	22,908,315
Saskatchewan	3,219,830	3,097,740	3,279,314	3,581,815	4,588,106
Alberta	31,865,101	35,147,807	32,766,649	37,703,093	32,232,924
British Columbia	115,069,031	126,835,166	135,705,475	132,958,384	129,905,105
Canada	379,706,113	411,036,513	410,350,056	447,009,579	433,014,991
Source: Statistics Canada (CATSnet, September 2020)

6.3.5.3. Imports of all potato products by country of origin, value (Canadian dollars)

	2015/2016	2016/2017	2017/2018	2018/2019	2019/2020
United States	351,835,174	380,809,730	378,986,708	411,474,339	391,002,335
Mexico	1,225,885	1,383,605	2,119,255	4,659,902	7,517,011
Belgium	9,912,610	10,453,702	8,791,043	7,726,684	6,689,514
Denmark	3,110,263	3,277,904	3,169,597	3,907,961	4,737,369
Germany	1,643,536	1,706,020	2,707,417	3,035,300	3,733,119
Others	11,978,645	13,405,552	14,576,036	16,205,393	19,335,643
Total	379,706,113	411,036,513	410,350,056	447,009,579	433,014,991
Source: Statistics Canada (CATSnet, September 2020)

7. United States national statistics for potatoes

7.1 United States potato production

	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
Seeded area (acres)	1,082,900	1,056,700	1,052,600	1,026,500	968,300
Harvested area (acres)	1,070,900	1,037,700	1,044,500	1,014,800	942,200
Average yield, measured in cwt / acre	419	434	432	443	449
Production, measured in cwt ( ×1,000)	448,611	450,324	450,921	450,020	422,890
Amount utilized, measured in cwt ( ×1,000)	421,679	423,441	425,782	424,494	F
Average price, measured in Canadian dollars / acre	11.55	11.93	11.63	11.63	F
Total value of sales, measured in Canadian dollars (×1,000)	4,871,818	5,049,854	4,950,452	4,935,497	F
Notes: F: Not available. cwt: Hundredweight (short, US). 1 cwt = 45.36 kg. Source: Statistics Canada. Table 32-10-0017-01 Area, production and farm value of potatoes, by harvest season, United States

8. World production

8.1. World potato production (thousands tonnes)

	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	% Change 2018/2017
China	84,156	82,618	84,929	88,482	90,259	2%
India	46,395	48,009	43,417	48,605	48,529	0%
Ukraine	23,693	20,839	21,750	22,208	22,504	1%
Russia	31,501	33,646	22,463	21,708	22,395	3%
United States of America	20,057	20,013	20,426	20,453	20,607	1%
Bangladesh	8,950	9,254	9,474	10,216	9,744	−5%
Germany	11,607	10,370	10,772	11,720	8,921	−24%
France	8,085	7,120	6,955	8,547	7,871	−8%
Poland	7,689	6,314	8,872	9,172	7,478	−18%
Netherlands	7,100	6,652	6,534	7,392	6,030	−18%
Belarus	6,280	5,995	5,984	6,415	5,865	−9%
Canada	5,643	5,875	5,920	5,970	5,791	−3%
Iran	4,989	5,141	4,995	5,120	5,321	4%
Peru	4,705	4,705	4,514	4,776	5,121	7%
United Kingdom	5,911	5,644	5,395	6,218	5,028	−19%
Egypt	4,611	4,955	4,113	4,841	4,896	1%
Algeria	4,674	4,540	4,760	4,606	4,653	1%
Pakistan	2,901	3,998	3,978	3,853	4,592	19%
Turkey	4,166	4,760	4,750	4,800	4,550	−5%
Kazakhstan	3,411	3,521	3,546	3,551	3,807	7%
Brazil	3,690	3,868	3,851	3,655	3,688	1%
Colombia	2,158	2,582	3,034	3,707	3,108	−16%
Nepal	2,818	2,586	2,806	2,691	3,088	15%
Belgium	4,381	3,690	3,403	4,417	3,045	−31%
Romania	3,519	2,700	2,690	3,117	3,023	−3%
Other countries	56,878	56,354	57,620	57,534	58,254	1%
World	369,967	365,748	356,952	373,774	368,169	−1%
Notes: The figures for Canada in this table may differ slightly from the data provided by Statistics Canada as the latter are revised one year after the release. Includes seed potatoes. Source: Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations \| © FAO Statistics Division 2020 - 20 August 2020

9. World trade

9.1. Top 20 importers of fresh potatoes worldwide (thousands of Canadian dollars)

	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
Belgium	323,380	529,841	555,317	620,800	886,868
Netherlands	263,719	413,335	422,172	442,833	521,227
Germany	207,553	309,148	263,815	259,398	406,211
Spain	186,706	290,382	274,772	276,372	379,339
Italy	177,376	227,277	196,989	196,447	259,842
United States	183,722	254,244	267,523	279,622	258,425
United Kingdom	144,137	149,918	146,929	136,995	186,425
France	100,891	144,552	147,422	120,121	177,323
Russia	291,127	127,872	275,020	264,489	166,617
Canada	94,121	106,030	120,866	113,180	134,375
Greece	55,738	65,989	78,887	79,866	127,713
Poland	35,336	55,961	44,233	49,787	127,204
Portugal	82,933	130,546	95,093	122,256	126,426
Malaysia	99,200	103,091	97,036	94,005	103,634
Czech Republic	41,541	62,376	53,206	51,316	93,723
Romania	18,673	44,653	38,957	38,531	87,891
Mexico	59,244	56,215	62,411	77,665	78,037
Ireland	47,318	59,092	44,764	59,299	66,519
Ukraine	403	2,956	771	2,055	58,625
Austria	34,583	42,005	38,187	42,234	53,955
Others	720,156	847,978	891,545	824,229	956,409
Total	3,167,855	4,023,462	4,115,916	4,151,501	5,256,789
Note: Does not include seed potatoes. Source: Global Trade Tracker (August 2020)

9.2. Top 20 exporters of fresh potatoes worldwide (thousands of Canadian dollars)

	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
France	503,817	706,124	656,269	702,893	928,033
Netherlands	227,915	401,326	360,527	336,919	564,635
China	294,324	298,458	360,798	338,886	525,152
Germany	302,855	410,345	438,710	437,611	517,898
Egypt	281,171	227,958	353,843	253,497	333,391
United States	223,530	260,218	276,334	293,833	320,348
Canada	193,201	263,366	271,851	287,831	267,441
Belgium	175,684	237,809	230,108	209,499	238,865
Spain	123,802	163,464	128,940	125,988	170,470
Pakistan	154,677	104,013	105,885	159,313	154,709
Iran	271,425	189,446	166,112	183,330	152,678
United Kingdom	95,889	110,230	89,454	101,867	144,858
India	68,933	78,306	74,887	73,236	100,907
Italy	60,083	92,855	73,348	59,499	91,292
Cyprus	49,497	68,660	69,135	66,892	71,631
Israel	103,746	123,076	118,467	81,467	67,955
Belarus	21,636	18,753	32,717	31,206	65,442
South Africa	49,032	55,467	61,480	55,674	52,573
Russia	21,662	28,291	25,726	20,469	41,324
Slovenia	4,692	11,108	9,072	12,202	40,759
Others	274,841	376,556	441,343	381,047	478,282
Total	3,502,412	4,225,830	4,345,005	4,213,158	5,328,643
Note: Does not include seed potatoes. Source: Global Trade Tracker (August 2020)

9.3. Top 20 importers of seed potatoes worldwide (thousands of Canadian dollars)

	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
Egypt	102,533	139,040	111,568	109,447	140,762
Belgium	67,363	88,334	104,155	98,693	119,000
Netherlands	14,894	29,938	37,331	52,700	78,062
Spain	43,429	46,159	46,416	44,331	64,734
Germany	51,276	59,649	55,540	55,780	63,101
Italy	36,026	46,580	48,830	48,325	60,511
Portugal	27,969	31,362	29,496	33,148	38,485
United States	30,704	35,156	35,605	35,188	34,060
Morocco	31,314	37,614	32,856	36,204	33,821
France	16,960	28,881	28,373	23,370	33,173
Greece	16,378	16,681	17,378	19,671	21,448
Israel	24,619	23,197	20,203	20,197	20,943
Qatar	24,322	26,039	28,064	19,997	19,673
Azerbaijan	957	2,615	8,023	21,442	18,530
Turkey	29,780	25,151	14,636	18,088	16,409
Poland	7,457	11,485	8,474	11,911	12,664
Austria	5,617	6,677	7,559	11,469	10,810
Russia	28,566	12,278	19,389	16,042	10,579
Romania	2,731	3,893	4,713	5,932	10,391
Jordan	7,241	8,934	6,015	10,669	10,323
Others[1]	307,242	264,443	322,620	235,264	176,844
Total	877,378	944,106	987,246	927,868	994,324
Note: 1. In 2019, Canada ranked 23rd globally with imports totaling $8.5 million. Source: Global Trade Tracker (September 2019)

9.4. Top 20 exporters of seed potatoes worldwide (thousands of Canadian dollars)

	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
Netherlands	572,709	644,239	675,791	704,310	773,796
France	92,259	102,303	114,419	137,276	162,203
United Kingdom	92,569	84,553	75,212	83,634	98,042
Germany	59,369	62,459	70,168	65,835	69,184
Belgium	32,251	40,221	42,329	56,940	67,525
Spain	7,402	15,744	9,299	71,235	57,669
Denmark	30,461	33,339	38,522	46,137	51,056
Canada	37,044	38,445	38,077	37,780	36,156
United States	9,822	9,463	34,598	12,048	17,179
Egypt	17,337	4,758	12,361	12,445	8,700
South Africa	10,125	7,217	10,363	10,743	8,345
Russia	1,042	1,584	4,730	9,021	7,485
Portugal	4,481	6,217	5,258	5,606	6,971
Australia	2,116	2,602	2,524	5,797	6,670
Luxembourg	859	2,208	3,469	3,849	4,326
Kazakhstan	64	366	1,894	6,269	4,057
Austria	2,502	2,644	4,069	2,797	4,049
Finland	2,604	2,580	3,454	2,999	2,852
Poland	822	620	2,386	2,865	2,357
Ethiopia	3,847	2,694	2,282	1,315	2,159
Others	10,939	13,446	17,145	16,763	17,162
Total	990,623	1,077,703	1,168,349	1,295,664	1,407,943
Source: Global Trade Tracker (August 2020)

10. Key Resources

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Infohort
Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Potatoes Section
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Statistics Division
Global Trade Tracker
Statistics Canada. Table 32-10-0045-01
Statistics Canada. Table 32-10-0054-01
Statistics Canada. Table 32-10-0166-01
Statistics Canada. Table 32-10-0358-01
Source: Statistics Canada. Table 32-10-0017-01
Statistics Canada. CATSNET
Statistics Canada. 2016 Census of Agriculture

Import and export data is based on the following Harmonized System Codes (H.S. Codes):

Fresh Potato Export HS Codes: 07019000
Seed Potato Export HS Codes: 07011000
Frozen Potato Export HS Codes: 07101000, 20041000
Processed Export HS Codes: 07121000, 11051000, 11052000, 11081300, 20052000
Fresh Potato Import HS Codes: 0701900010, 0701900020
Seed Potato Import HS Codes: 0701100000
Frozen Potato Import HS Codes: 0710100000, 2004100000
Processed Import HS Codes: 0712909010, 1105100000, 1105200000, 1108130010, 1108130020, 2005200010, 2005200020, 2005200090