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Monday, February 13 2006 at 10:21
The amount of potatoes in storage in North Dakota is at its lowest January level in 16 years, and officials say the waning Atkins low-carb diet craze is one reason.
Growers, dealers, and processors had the equivalent of 11.3 million hundred-pound bags of potatoes in storage on Jan. 1, down 35 percent from a year ago and the lowest January level since 11 million hundredweight in 1990, the Agriculture Department said. Mac Johnson, a vice president with the Denver-based US Potato Board, said the situation has changed since 2004, when the Atkins low-carb diet was popular and North Dakota potato stocks set an April record.
''It's a combination of things . . . but certainly the Atkins diet had some effect," he said. ''In the waning of that diet, we have seen fresh potato sales increasing slightly at the retail level."
Read more about the impact of the Atkins diet on potato sales and storage at http://www.boston.com.