Potandon Produce announces start date for Arizona Red Potatoes

Potandon Produce, the exclusive marketing agent for Pinto Creek Co., in Eloy, Ariz., announced that its fresh potato season will begin on Monday May 4. 2015. This year, consumer bags will be shipped with a redesigned “Grown in Arizona” Quik-Lok tag. Bernie Pavlock, business development director with Potandon says, “Our Arizona customers enthusiastically responded to the local call-out, and with so many consumers asking about the origins of their food, it made perfect sense to move ahead with this program nationally.” Growing conditions have been very good this year and production is ahead of schedule, say officials for Potandon. Red potatoes will start next week, with yellow and mini potato varieties getting started about mid-month. These new crop potatoes will also be available in Idaho Falls at the Potandon distribution facility about one week after the scheduled start dates. Pinto Creek is a PRIMUS certified facility with a full-time Quality Assurance person on-site daily. The packing facility has seen steady improvement over the past five years, by adding a new storage facility to state of the art grading and sizing equipment, officials add, saying that additionally, the Pinto Creek team commitment to excellence has elevated their status to one of the premier red potato packing sheds in the country.