NPC Launches 2023 Grower Supporter Campaign

The National Potato Council’s (NPC) annual Grower Supporter campaign provides resources to promote and protect the potato industry’s interest in Washington, D.C.

Through the contributions of 2022 Grower Supporters, NPC and state partners were able to open Mexico for fresh potato shipments – a step intended to finally resolve the longest running trade dispute in our industry’s history and in USDA’s as well. NPC also secured major victories in delivering potato research funding via the appropriations process and pushed back against unscientific limitations on potatoes in U.S. federal feeding programs.

In 2023, NPC is focused on top potato industry priorities, such as:

• Ensuring potatoes retain their rightful place in federal nutrition programs
• Opposing tax increases on the potato industry
• Pushing back against overreaching regulations on the agriculture industry like WOTUS and the SEC Climate Rule
• Investing in potato science and research
• Supporting ag labor reform provisions that ensure a sustainable workforce
• Advocating for transportation reforms and infrastructure investments that make it easier to get potatoes to market, both domestically and internationally
• Finalizing a workable market access agreement with China for chipping potatoes
• Building on the success of the Japan FTA with new market access
• Promote U.S. potato industry’s rightful share of the 2023 Farm Bill
• Ensuring that foreign pests and diseases are not introduced into the U.S. and harm growers’ ability to produce and market their crop
• Promoting additional free trade and market access agreements

Click HERE to register your support for NPC and join the 2023 Grower Supporter campaign to help amplify the potato industry’s voice in Washington, D.C.