How To Help Your Potato Crops Recover After Hail Injury

Managing bacterial blackleg starts with seed. Here’s essential information to understand how blackleg develops and how to reduce its impact.

Purple top, zebra chip, and PVY can mimic one another. Understanding how and when to confirm the culprit helps avoid costly mistakes in potato crops.

If you understand how potato skin forms and firms, you’ll be able to protect crop quality at harvest.

Early blight, caused by Alternaria solani, reduces potato yield and quality and is best managed with cultural practices and fungicides.

Find out what role flowering has in tuber crops like potatoes.

To get the best results from a lab, there are a few steps you need to take before sending in the specimen.

If you understand how potato plants use water from planting to harvest, you’ll avoid causing injury from too much or too little irrigation.

Wound healing and precutting potato seed pieces provides a natural barrier.

Understanding their characteristics will help you choose the right product for the best effect.

To solve this who-done-it, put your gumshoe skills to work.

Smoke and ash from wildfires are harmful to your health. Here’s what we know about how they affect your crops.

The key to success in defending against these microscopic worms is to understand what you’re dealing with.

Basic product knowledge can advance a successful production plan for your crops.

Though not a disease, Periderm Disorder Syndrome can make tubers more susceptible while also creating external and internal damage. Here’s a primer.

This old insult stems from producers whose harvest underwhelm. Here’s why it happens.

Identifying issues with some diseases can be easy, if you know what to look for.

If you do not have a problem with this weed yet, you should be vigilant to keep it that way. 

Learn why the Russet Burbank cultivar is so successful.

A 56-year-old Washington seed lot trial evaluates potato seed and highlights seed-borne diseases.