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COVID-19 EFFECT
largest processor of frozen potato
products, has laid off employees from
several North American facilities.
Dozens of produce associations,
including the United Fresh and the
National Potato Council, have urged
the U.S. government to assist food
producers during the crisis in the
form of surplus purchases to give
to food banks and other charitable
organizat ions. The Department
of Agriculture responded with the
$19 billion Coronavirus Food Assistance
Program, announced April 17.
Kam Quarles, CEO of the National
Potato Council, told Produce Processing
that it was requested that the USDA buy
some already-processed produce to help
processors clean out their backed-up
supplies and create some demand. The
first round of assistance was mostly
direct payments to growers to offset
their losses and surplus purchases of
fresh product still in storage.
" All the major players (including
processors) in the (potato) industry really
got together and locked arms on this in
COVID-19 shutdowns have significantly reduced foodservice potato demand. Here, an empty Applebee's
in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Photo: Zeke Jennings
saying 'this is what we need,' " Quarles
said. " We lost our biggest customer
(foodservice), and the government needs
to become that customer. "
Quarles is optimistic that more
assistance is on the way in the coming
months as the situation unfolds.
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