U.S. SWEET POTATO STATISTICS                                             Stock # 03001	
	
Economic Research Service                      United States Department of Agriculture	
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(Updated 06/2011)	
	
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This data product provides detailed statistics on sweet potatoes for the United	
States and individual sweet potato-producing States for 1960-2010.  Acreage,	
yield, production, and value are presented by State.  Additional statistical series	
such as supply & use, per capita use, price indexes, shipments, arrivals, U.S. exports 	
and imports by country, world production, world harvested acreage, world trade, and 	
selected cost of production budgets are included.	
	
The Excel worksheet files listed below statistically describe the U.S.	
sweet potato industry.  Excel files can be read by most any spreadsheet	
package including Lotus and Quatro.  The file names in the left column 	
contain the information described to the right of the file name.	
	
 File                             Description	
 name  	
	
Table01.xls	Census number of farms with sweet potatoes & area harvested, 1978-2007
Table02.xls	U.S. sweet potato production by state, 1900-2010
	
Table03.xls	Alabama fresh sweet potatoes, 1960-2010
Table04.xls	Arkansas fresh sweet potatoes, 1960-2010
Table05.xls	California fresh sweet potatoes, 1960-2010
Table06.xls	Florida fresh sweet potatoes, 1960-2010
Table07.xls	Georgia fresh sweet potatoes, 1960-2010 
Table08.xls	Kansas fresh sweet potatoes, 1960-68
Table09.xls	Kentucky fresh sweet potatoes, 1960-64
Table10.xls	Louisiana fresh sweet potatoes, 1960-2010
Table11.xls	Missouri fresh sweet potatoes, 1960-64
Table12.xls	Maryland fresh sweet potatoes, 1992-94
Table13.xls	Mississippi fresh sweet potatoes, 1960-2007
Table14.xls	North Carolina fresh sweet potatoes, 1920-2010
Table15.xls	New Jersey fresh sweet potatoes, 1960-2010
Table16.xls	New Mexico fresh sweet potatoes, 1960-68
Table17.xls	Oklahoma fresh sweet potatoes, 1960-68
Table18.xls	South Carolina fresh sweet potatoes, 1960-2009
Table19.xls	Tennessee fresh sweet potatoes, 1960-68
Table20.xls	Texas fresh sweet potatoes, 1960-2010
Table21.xls	Virginia fresh sweet potatoes, 1960-2009
	
Table22.xls	U.S. acreage, yield, production, value, & disposition, 1900-2010
Table23.xls	Arrivals of fresh swt potatoes in selected U.S. cities, 1985-98
Table24.xls	U.S. monthly domestic shipments of sweet potatoes, 1978-2010
Table25.xls	U.S. swt potatoes: Supply, utilization, and price, 1970-2011
	
Table26.xls	U.S. swt potato exports to selected countries, fresh, 1989-2010
Table27.xls	U.S. swt potato exports to selected countries, frozen, 1997-2010
Table28.xls	U.S. swt potato imports from selected countries, fresh, 1989-2010
Table29.xls	U.S. swt potato imports from selected countries, frozen, 1996-2010
Table30.xls	U.S. swt potato trade: Monthly export and import volume, 1989-2010
	
Table31.xls	Sweet potatoes: U.S. wholesale price index, 1947-2011
Table32.xls	Sweet potatoes: U.S. wholesale price index, New York, 1947-91
Table33.xls	Sweet potatoes: U.S. wholesale price index, Chicago, 1947-91
	
Table34.xls	Sweet potatoes: Cost of production in North Carolina, 2002
Table35.xls	Sweet potatoes: Cost of production in Louisiana, 2007
	
Table36.xls	World sweet potatoes: Harvested area by country, 1961-2009
Table37.xls	World sweet potatoes: Production by country, 1961-2009
Table38.xls	World sweet potatoes: Import volume by country, 1980-2008
Table39.xls	World sweet potatoes: Import value by country, 1980-2008
Table40.xls	World sweet potatoes: Export volume by country, 1980-2008
Table41.xls	World sweet potatoes: Export value by country, 1980-2008
Table42.xls	World sweet potatoes: Import unit value by country, 1990-2008
	
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