Posted on 08/13/2022 4:27:42 PM PDT by dynachrome
Idaho has a potato shortage. If you haven't heard about it already or noticed fewer and fewer potatoes in your grocery store's produce section, you will soon.
So, what's the problem? The weather. Not this year’s weather, mind you. It’s the weather from over a year ago that’s to blame.
“I'm not sure if you remember last June, but we had some just unbelievably hot temperatures here in Idaho. It did a number on our potato crop,” said Jamey Higham, president and CEO of the Idaho Potato Commission. “And so, our yields were significantly down last year.”
Now, keep that in mind when you learn that a previous year's potato crop cycle is supposed to last through the following August. And before the 2022 harvest comes into the pipeline (it’s just now beginning), consumers are facing the shortage from last year's crop.
(Excerpt) Read more at boisestatepublicradio.org ...
FBI: We have eyes on this situation.
Ohhh noooooz, the great potato famine of 2022,
Note to all Irish: Here it comes again. Gird your loins.
We have a surplus, I assume. Fries are still cheap at McD’s.
6 bucks a gallon diesel is having an impact too.
I’ve heard it’s just not economical to ship some crops so they aren’t even bothering to harvest them.
Jonathon Swift had the answer.
;)
Buy big bags of frozen fries and glue the fires together ,LOL
We had similar in the 70s. Ruined my parents’ Charles Chip business.
I'll just eat more steak!!
I wrote a term paper on that satire piece.
Idaho, like Eastern Washington, is mostly desert in the lowlands. Always hot.
NPR grooming the kids to CLIMATE CHAOS affecting local business. Note to noobs, NPR is publicly funded and those on its payroll have likely never worked on a farm or operated a business.
You can thank your Geo-engineering NWO friends for that.
I worked for Charles Chips, in route sales.
I remember those trucks from my youth in Cleveland....
When I was but a wee lad growing up in So Cal, there were ads on TV saying, “How do you spell potato”? And the answer would come back as”I-D-A-H-O”. Alas that campaign ended abruptly when Moms got up in arms because their little ones would proclaim loudly, “Hey, mom, I know how to spell potato”.
Could have been a Trump campaign line.
“Elect sleepy Joe Biden, and in two years there will be a potato shortage in Idaho “
It takes ONE potato cut into pieces (with an ‘eye’ on each piece) to plant an acre.
Just kidding! Not an ACRE, but ONE seed potato goes a long way to make a LOT of potato plants.
Somebody here said $2.99 potatoes 🍠🥔🥔 will be $15 for 10lbs in fall - said they heard it from a store manager.
It’s almost $8 for a 5lbs bag of red potatoes here when before it was around $3.50. That’s a huge increase. Yeah, we’ve noticed it.
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