French fries. Mashed potatoes. Baked potatoes. Potato salad. Chips. Hashbrowns. Practically every American dinner is served with potato.
Unsurprisingly, potatoes are the leading crop for vegetables across the United States.
As per the Agriculture Marketing Resource Center, there were one million acres were harvested of potato across 30 states in the year 2020
It estimates that nearly 1 billion people around the world depend on potato as a source of food and food
with over 300 million metric tons potatoes harvested every year to satisfy the global demand
Idaho is a state known for its potatoes and with the reason that it produces the most potatoes of potatoes of any other state within the U.S
It is reported that the Idaho State Department of Agriculture states that the state produces about one-third of all the potatoes
that are that are grown across the United States on more than 300,000 acres.
The next time you apply a spoonful of sour cream onto your potato baked, or make a dip in ketchup, the chances are good that the food was sourced from Idaho.