Colorado Potato Beetle Management Innovations
By Mark Milenski and Manuel Campos, Entomologist, BioSafe Systems The year 1859 may not hold much significance to most people in the potato industry; however, it was during that…
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EPA Registers Howler Fungicide
AgBiome’s Howler fungicide has received registration from the EPA. The biological fungicide is designed to control diseases including Botrytis, Colletotrichum, Phytophthora, Pythium and Rhizoctonia. Howler fights disease with three modes of action: metabolic,…
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Crop Nutrition: Breaking Potato Quality, Yield Plateaus
By Noel Garcia, Technical Director, TPS Lab Larry Zibilske, Vice President of Research, TPS Lab Since the late 1990s, there has been a plateau in potato yields, generally averaging…
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Late Blight Found in Columbia Basin
Late blight is present in a number of fields north of Pasco up to at least Eltopia and east of Pasco to the Snake River. The strain of the late blight…
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First Potato Psyllid Found in Eastern Idaho During 2017 Monitoring
This week a project of the University of Idaho Extension, Oregon State University, and Idaho Master Gardeners (the Pacific Northwest Pest Alert Network) collected Psyllids with sticky traps in potato…
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Dickeya: A New Disease Causing Major Impact
By Margaret Tuttle McGrath, Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section, Cornell University Dickeya (also known as Dickeya blackleg) is a destructive disease all potato growers should be aware of,…
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Two New Herbicides
UPI, a global leader in the production of high quality crop protection products, has launched two new herbicides in the U.S. MOCCASIN is the first post-patent herbicide containing the active…
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Search warrants for potato pest ordered at E. Idaho farms
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho A federal judge has approved search warrants to take samples from fields in southeast Idaho after farmers refused to allow federal authorities to check for a microscopic…
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Harvest and Minimizing Foreign Material in Potatoes: On-line educational videos now available
Potato All Locations Harvest and Minimizing Foreign Material: On-line educational videos now available. Foreign material is any material that is not the potato tuber. It is “trash” or “garbage”…
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Treasure Valley Growers Urged to Watch for Zebra Chip
Several potato psyllids collected last week tested positive for Lso (liberibacter), the bacterium that causes zebra chip. Lso-positive psyllids were found in the following counties: Payette (1 field), Canyon (7…
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