date:Dec 18, 2013
gh November. Patterson calculates production costs, factoring in storage through October, ranged from $7.79 per hundredweight in eastern Idaho to $8.08 per hundredweight in southwest Idaho.
During the second week of October, the retail price for potato cartons ranged from $19-$24. Carton prices dropped to $17-$17.50 by the third week of November. Consumer bag prices, however, rose during that same period from $9-$12 per hundredweight to $13.75-$16.50 per hundredweight.
Kevin Stanger, senior vi