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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Washington Growers Vote to Continue Federal Marketing Order
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced that potato producers in Washington voted to continue their federal marketing order program. The Washington potato marketing order provides authority for grade,…
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May Retail Sales a Mixed Bag for Potatoes and Products
For the four week data ending 5.27.17 for total potato volume, at retail, saw a decline of 1.6% when compared to the same month last year, however total dollar sales…
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$hould I $pend the Money?
By Jeff Miller, Miller Research LLC It seems that there is no shortage of products on which crop producers are asked to spend their hard-earned money. Every year potato…
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Lso-positive psyllids in Jerome and Twin Falls counties
The Pacific Northwest Pest Alert Network is reporting that three psyllid collected last week tested positive for Lso (liberibacter), the bacterium that causes zebra chip. Two of these psyllids were found in…
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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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Getting Into the Weeds
Weeds Can Pose Additional Threat to Potato Production By Zack Frederick, Tom Cummings and Dennis Johnson, Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University Weeds present in fields compete for water,…
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New Fungicide Hits Market
Arius ADV is a new fungicide from SipcamRotam formulated to provide reliable control of some of the most destructive potato diseases including early blight, late blight, powdery mildew and black…
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Fox News Offers Packaging, Equipment Information
Fox Packaging and Fox Solutions have launched Fox News, a blog dedicated to packaging and equipment information for the fresh produce industry. “To support the needs of growers, shippers and…
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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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