National Potato Council

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…

The Potato Leadership, Education, and Advancement Foundation (Potato LEAF) has announced the 2025 class of the potato industry’s Leadership Institute. Over the 10-day program, Feb. 19-28, participants will receive an…

Last week, NPC VP of Legislative Affairs Dean Gibson and NPC CEO Kam Quarles were in Sun Valley, Idaho, at the Idaho Grower Shippers Association Annual Meeting. During that meeting,…

Current record-high U.S. agricultural trade deficit numbers are projected to dramatically increase to $42.5 billion in fiscal year 2025, reported USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS) in late August. The 2025 projection marks…

In a significant legal development, a federal judge in Georgia ruled this week that a Labor Department regulation allowing H-2A farmworkers to engage in advocacy and self-organization is unconstitutional. The…

A $50 million surplus commodity purchase for potatoes was announced by the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS). This announcement came in response to a request made by the National Potato…

The U.S. House of Representatives Agriculture Committee passed its version of a $1.5 trillion The Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2024 in the early-morning hours of May 24….