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Industry News December 9, 2024

USDA Announces More than $2 Billion to Strengthen Specialty Crops Sector, Expand Crop Storage for Producers Following 2024 Natural Disasters

Support is available to producers nationwide, and will significantly assist producers of citrus and other specialty crops in the Southeast after Hurricanes Debby, Helene and Milton Today, Agriculture Secretary Tom…

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Industry News December 4, 2024

IPC Appoints Two New Commissioners

During the Idaho Potato Commission’s (IPC) October meeting, two new Commissioners were sworn in. Brian Lundquist of Idahoan Foods, LLC and Klaren Koompin, a grower in American Falls will each…

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Industry News December 3, 2024

Farmer Sentiment Following Election Reaches Highest Levels Since May 2021

Farmer sentiment jumped again in November, with the Purdue University/CME Group Ag Economy Barometer climbing 30 points to a reading of 145. This marked the highest level of farmer optimism since May…

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Industry News December 2, 2024

Profitability in Sustainability

By Roger McKinley III and Trey Reid, RegenAg Nation Imagine laboring through an entire growing season, investing in fertilizers, crop protection and irrigation, meticulously caring for your crop, and then…

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Industry News November 28, 2024

Pinpointing Optimal Potato Nitrogen Rates

Story by John O’Connell, University of Idaho Photos by Dave Alexander, Publisher A study underway at University of Idaho’s Aberdeen Research and Extension Center seeks to help potato farmers identify…

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Industry News November 26, 2024

Why Would You Not Be a Member?

By Dale Lathim I hope everyone had a great summer and is finishing up a productive crop year. Over the past few years, I have written about a variety of…

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Industry News November 22, 2024

Potato Becomes Oregon’s State Vegetable

Oregon has named the potato as the state vegetable. This comes after Oregon Potato Commissioner and chef Leif Benson discovered six years ago that Oregon didn’t have a registered state…

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Industry News November 20, 2024

NPC Welcomes More than $2 Billion to Strengthen Specialty Crops Sector

The National Potato Council (NPC) welcomed USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack’s announcement of a new Marketing Assistance for Specialty Crops initiative, which, according to a USDA press release, will “provide $2 billion…

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Industry News November 19, 2024

Basic American and Top Tier Ingredients Win Dehy Contracts

The Agricultural Marketing Service awarded a contract for solicitation 2000010473, 12-3J14-25-B-0086 for the procurement of dehydrated potato flakes. Basic American, Inc. of Walnut, Calif. and Top Tier Ingredients, LLC of…

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Events November 18, 2024

Potato Business Summit Opens for Registration

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