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Four farmers in Gujarati, India are being sued by PepsiCo for growing the variety used in Lays Potato chips. PepsiCo is using Section 64 of the Protection of Plant Varieties and…

USDA Resources for Organic National Institute on Food and Agriculture (NIFA) USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) recently published the following funding opportunities for FY 2019 and FY…

The World Potato Congress (WPC) will have the third installment of their webinar series this Thursday, April 25 at 9 am EST. Dr. Gary Secor will present “Best Management Practices…

For the first time, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participants will be able to select and pay for their groceries online, during a two-year test (pilot) launched today in New…

The adoption of cover crops as a key soil health practice continues at a rapid rate throughout the U.S., according to data from the 2017 Census of Agriculture. Cover crops were…

National Potato Council (NPC) has announced a new executive team. Kam Quarles, the current Vice President of Public Policy and Communications for the NPC, will become the new Chief Executive…

Actagro Proximus www.superchargeyourtubers.com Proximus is a liquid nitrogen management tool approved for all crops in the U.S. and Canada. It has a patent-pending mode of action that works with native microbes…

The value of store retail potato sales was $11.6 billion in 2018, a 2.1 percent increase over 2017. The increase was paced by refrigerated sales, up 5.3 percent, and frozen,…