Consumer Panel. Supermarket Guru Phil Kempert, back by popular demand from last year's POTATO EXPO, engages in a discussion with Rina, a local consumer, on why she doesn't
purchase potatoes more often. Kempert moderated two EXPO Stage panel discussions in the Trade Show and one "super panel" during the Thursday evening general session.
Potato Pile. The entire U.S. potato industry is
represented on this pie chart. Both Wright and Hoffman
repeatedly emphasized that pushing surplus of potatoes
from one sector to another just makes everything
worse, because it's all one big pile of potatoes. Hoffman
pointed out that the "Other" category represents
potatoes going straight to cattle feed.
Randy Mullen of Pasco, Wash., was elected
to serve as NPC's president for 2013 and to
lead the council's Executive Committee. As
president, Mullen will host the 2013 NPC
Summer Meeting, June 26–28, in Walla
Walla, Wash.
POTATO EXPO 2014 will take place Jan.
8–10 at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention
Center in San Antonio, Texas. PG
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