Articles by brian@columbiamediagroup.com

Teleos Ag Solutions will be hosting two fumigation stewardship training events in August. The first will be in Moses Lake on August 2 at the Big Bend Community College.  The second…

A new tool available for the 2022 season, the KestrelMet 6000 AG Weather Station, has been designed to help farmers improve irrigation efficiency. The on-site monitoring system provides growers with…

The U.S. has begun exporting potatoes into Mexico beyond the 26-kilometer border zone that previously marked the limit of their export. This comes after the two countries reached an agreement…

Heartfelt tributes to stellar spuds were just the ticket for higher produce sales during the Idaho Potato Commission’s 31st annual retail display contest. Retailers across the country took home more than $150,000…

By Dale Lathim, Potato Growers of Washington There has been a lot of talk and emotion surrounding the ever-escalating cost of production for the 2022 crop and the contract price….

Canada resumed exporting Prince Edward Island (PEI) table stock potatoes into the U.S. in early April, following the end of a ban resulting from the discovery of potato wart in…

Story and photos by Dave Alexander, Publisher Miller Research’s annual potato pest management meeting resumed this February after a pandemic-break in 2021. Held in the historic Wilson Theatre in Rupert,…

Jared Balcom was elected to serve as the 2022 National Potato Council (NPC) president during the organization’s Washington Summit. Balcom is the owner of Balcom and Moe, a fourth-generation potato…