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{"7A533B72-5056-A066-6086-9E1573FC2108":{"TotalRows":1,"uid":"7A533B72-5056-A066-6086-9E1573FC2108","title":"Schumer Urges National Restaurant Association to Look to NY to Buy Potatoes","summary":"Jamesport, NY","eventType":"chuck-around-ny","eventTypeLabel":"Chuck Around NY","date":"December 7, 2019","url":"about/chuck-around-new-york/schumer-urges-national-restaurant-association-to-look-to-ny-to-buy-potatoes","city":"Jamesport","county":"Suffolk","lat":40.970494,"lng":-72.58287229999999,"description":"<p>On Dec 7, 2010 standing at Long Island’s biggest potato farm, surrounded by 300 acres of potato fields and with family farmers who know a thing or two about how to grow this crop, U.S. Senator Charles Schumer provided an update on the <a href=\"https://www.businessinsider.com/us-experiencing-shortage-potatoes-for-french-fries-2019-12\">national potato shortage</a> now hitting tip-of-the-tongue potato states like Idaho, North Dakota, Oregon, and even abroad in Canada. Schumer said the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is forecasting a domestic potato production drop that will be the lowest since 2010. Schumer said, amid this national shortage, that the nation’s potato procurers should look closer at New York, specifically, Long Island, to help ease the shortage. Schumer made a pitch for the <a href=\"https://restaurant.org/Home\">National Restaurant Association</a> to alert all of their members across all fifty states—from mom-and-pop shops to big chains—to look at Long Island and its crop for doing business, saying New York has not suffered the same kind of crop wipe-out and Long Island farms have extra potatoes right now.</p>"}}

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