Program at UW-Madison keeps potatoes clean from test tube to plate
Years before that french fry landed on your plate, the plant that would eventually give rise to the spud your fry was cut from was sealed away deep in a…
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NematodePro.com Crop Consulting Company Opens
Brad Young is a name familiar to many growers in the west as a soil-fumigation and nematode management specialist. Young is the driving force behind NematodePro.com, a new soil-fumigation and…
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Husband-and-Wife Team Grows Farm, Family
Story and photos by Denise Keller You can take the girl off the farm, but you can’t take farming out of the girl. At least that seems to ring…
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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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Potato Fest in North Carolina
The North Carolina Potato Festival is scheduled for the weekend of May 19-21 in Elizabeth City, NC. Potato Fest is a family event that celebrates one of northeast North Carolina’s largest crops…
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The storied history of the potato in Japanese cooking
The main clue as to when potatoes first entered Japan comes from its name in Japanese, jaga-imo. When the tubers, which originate in the Americas, were first introduced to the…
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Potato Museum gets makeover in-time for summer
BLACKFOOT, Idaho (KIFI/KIDK/KXPI) – The Idaho Potato Museum is gearing up for visitors now that the weather is warming up. “This year is going to be an outstanding year,” Executive…
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April 2008
It’s technically spring (though you wouldn’t know it from the weather in most of the country). We’ve made it through another winter which is a good time to smile. Randy…
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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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New Webcast helps Potato Growers avoid devastating Powdery Scab Outbreaks
Powdery scab is a potato disease that is difficult to manage and under certain environmental conditions powdery scab can be potentially devastating to susceptible potato varieties. The Plant Management Network…
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