New English and Spanish Harvest Training Videos
Harvesting a quality crop is an important topic on everybody’s mind for the upcoming season. Blackspot bruise and shatter bruise, or open wounds such as nicks, cuts, and abrasions are…
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New Marketing Tools Available to Industry
Potatoes USA has a new marketing campaign that shows how potatoes fuel athletic performance and poses the question: “What are you eating?”. The campaign is based on the idea that…
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Trade Mitigation: AMS to Purchase $44M in Food, Including Spuds
On August 27, 2018, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Sonny Perdue, announced details of actions the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) would take to assist farmers in response to trade damage…
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Pink Eye of Potato
by Yi Wang, UW-Horticulture and Amanda Gevens, UW-Madison Plant Pathology What is pink eye? Pink eye is a disorder of potato tubers that can cause costly storage losses for potato growers and…
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Purple Potatoes Benefit Lung Health
A newly released study shows that increased consumption of dark-pigmented fruits and vegetables such as purple potatoes positively impacts lung function. The study from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public…
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U.S. Potato Imports Increase
Potatoes USA announced today that imports of all potatoes and potato products increased 3.8% in volume for fiscal year 2018 (July 2017 – June 2018). This increase in volume was…
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Inn Foods, McCain Awarded Frozen Potato Contracts
The Department of Agriculture (USDA) purchased frozen potatoes from Inn Foods, Inc and McCain for the child nutrition and other related domestic food assistance programs for Fiscal Year 2018. The…
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Potato Expo Needs Your Vote!
The popular Innovation Hub at Potato Expo 2019 is expanding with even more eye-opening presentations and discussions to get you up to speed on the latest trends, research and issues…
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How to Become a Certified USDA Vendor
The USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) Commodity Procurement Program will host two live, interactive webinars in August 2018 on how to become approved to sell to the USDA Foods program. Both sessions will…
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BioConsortia Names New Sr. VP of R&D
BioConsortia, Inc., innovator of microbial solutions for natural plant trait enhancement and yield improvement, announced the promotion of Dr. Hong Zhu to Senior Vice President of Research and Development. Dr….
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