Fourteenth National Potato Utilization Conference Report

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Excerpt from Fourteenth National Potato Utilization Conference Report: Held at Yakima, Washington, July 20-22, 1964I think that in a large degree we have permitted this to happen by default. We have heard enough in these meetings and recorded enough in our proceedings about specific gravity grading, storage problems, and Shipping and handling practices to have maintained or even improved our fresh product if we had worked as hard at it as the processors did with their problems.The fact still remains that the fresh potato at harvest time, properly grown, stands at the peak of quality and desirability. In its route from that point to the consumer, its deterioration will be fast or slow depending on the knowledge and skill with which it is handled. You may have observed from recent market reports that the consumer has been willing to pay an unusually high price for fresh potatoes for the past month or so. There was Of course a decrease in the estimated supply, but this supply for the most part was coming from Shipping areas that were blessed with good quality and were well organized with centralized warehousing, grading, and packing. There is still, we believe, abroad market for the fresh product, and that brings me to the members of this panel.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.