Diseases and Pests
Diseases and Pests, Industry News, Products
October 3, 2017
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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Diseases and Pests, Industry News, Products
July 26, 2017
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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Diseases and Pests, Industry News
July 14, 2017
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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Diseases and Pests, Growers, Industry News
June 23, 2017
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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Diseases and Pests
April 28, 2017
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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Diseases and Pests, Industry News, Products
April 17, 2017
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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Diseases and Pests
November 21, 2016
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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Diseases and Pests, Growers, Harvest
August 31, 2016
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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Diseases and Pests
August 8, 2016
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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Diseases and Pests, Industry News
August 2, 2016
Posted on: July 29, 2016 by Amy Carroll Last week we reported on a sharp increase in the prevalence of Lso-positive psyllids relative to the previous weeks this season. Out…
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