By Chris Voigt, Executive Director, Washington State Potato Commission About 15 years ago, food manufacturers were caught flat footed when a group of researchers determined that foods cooked at high…

By Victoria Marsh, Technical Sales Agronomist, Vive Crop Protection Can biologicals work in large-scale agriculture? This question has been increasingly posed in the agricultural community. With the EPA and states…

Certis Biologicals has launched its new copper product Kocide 50DF (copper hydroxide) for specialty crops in all states. The high-load copper bio-fungicide is designed to serve as both a preventative and…

A growing number of property owners of every type are looking for ways to manage their equipment and the work it does. Because of this, John Deere has created John…

Story and photos by Denise Keller, Editor Mark Hammer serves hash browns from the Washington State Potato Commission fry van. At the Washington-Oregon Potato Conference, held Jan. 24-26 in Kennewick,…

Miedema Auctioneering , Inc. is holding two online equipment auctions in Michigan, both closing on May 23. V & W Farms, Inc. in Byron Center, Mich. has a New Holland…

The Downs CropVision, a new optical sorter for unwashed potatoes, is now available in the U.S. Fitted with industrial cameras coupled with an artificial intelligence algorithm, the machine analyzes the whole…

By Dale Lathim Over the past couple of years, I have written multiple times about the hyperinflation that growers have been experiencing and the need for contracts to keep up…

The Idaho Potato Commission (IPC) received a petition from the Idaho Grower Shippers Association (IGSA) requesting that the IPC amend its administrative rules to remove the variety labeling requirements for…