Canadian growers harvested a record potato crop in 2021, as production rose 18.2% year over year to 123.1 million hundredweight, on account of increases in both seeded area and yield. New Brunswick (+58.3% to 18.2 million hundredweight) and Alberta (+5.2% to 24.6 million hundredweight) both reported record production, as seeded areas rose to meet growth in processing demand. Prince Edward Island produced the largest share of Canadian potatoes (23.2%), followed by Alberta (20.0%) and Manitoba (19.6%).
Seeded area was up or unchanged from 2020 in all provinces, reaching 386,309 acres nationally (+7.4%) in 2021. In particular, increases in Alberta (+14.7%), New Brunswick (+9.2%) and Manitoba (+9.1%), were observed, following the expansion of processing facilities, and as demand for processing potatoes returned to pre-pandemic levels.
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