Megan Embree is Potatoes USA’s newest team member, joining the team as their Administrative Operations Assistant, she will support the administration team and manage the Potato Board’s Nomination process. Embree…
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The Pacific Northwest Pest Alert Network is reporting psyllids were collected this week on sticky traps in potato fields in the several counties, three fields in Canyon county, and 1…
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Just outside of Idaho Falls on a beautiful plot of land the SunRain Varieties greenhouses sit. Today we got a tour inside to see their facilities. Utilizing several different greenhouses…
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On June 5, 2018, the United States and Indonesia reached a market access agreement that will allow U.S. fresh potatoes to be exported to Indonesia under a defined set of…
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The British company Airponix, claims its new technology that grows potatoes in water will produce up to 50 times more yield than soil-grown potatoes, while at the same time using…
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On June 5, the government of Mexico published a list of retaliatory tariffs in response to the Section 232 tariffs being imposed by the U.S. on steel and aluminum imports…
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In Kantar Consulting’s latest report, you’ll learn about the perfect storm that will move online grocery forward in the U.S. market. The report includes how shoppers’ willingness to make trade-offs…
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ADVERTISEMENT For years, Syngenta has been at the forefront of innovating new products for potato protection on a global level. Some technologies have been used reliably for almost three or…
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The 2018 omnibus spending bill passed in late March includes $2.5 million dollars for National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Potato Research Special Grants that support competitive potato breeding…
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The International Plant Nutrition Institute (IPNI) has released a new webinar on Youtube. Presented by IPNI Potassium Director T. Scott Murrell, the webinar is called “Crops Can Access More Potassium than is…
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