Potatoes
A Cornell University project could help growers increase production and speed up the introduction of new disease-resistant varieties.
Browse through more than 150 of the latest varieties from the nation’s leading seed breeders and distributors.
The United States Potato Board is researching how to identify new opportunities and is taking a closer look at a younger audience.
The NPC discusses the new FDA-approved food safety guidelines specific to potatoes.
Did you ever wish you knew for sure what disease is affecting your potato crop? A project, spearheaded […]
Three new commissioners will each serve a three-year term.
Rhett Spear, horticulture Ph.D. graduate student at Washington State University accepts $10,000 grant awarded by NPC.
Maine potato farmers have new cost-efficient options for increasing yields and improving production sustainability, thanks to research by […]
Understand the life stages of the disease vector, the potato psyllid, to determine which control strategies to apply.
Total U.S. potato and product exports for fiscal year (FY) 13 (July 1, 2012 to June 30, 2013) […]
Zebra chip (ZC) and its vector, the potato psyllid, have been two front-of-mind issues for the potato industry […]
Syngenta’s Stadium is a postharvest fungicide that features three active ingredients —fludioxonil, azoxystrobin, and difenoconazole— to offer unique […]
It seems as though there are some issues that are so important that no matter how much we’ve […]
Late blight, a devastating disease impacting tomatoes and potatoes, to date, has been documented in several states. Those […]
The United States Potato Board (USPB), the nation’s potato marketing organization and the central organizing force in implementing […]
New York potato growers planted an estimated 20,000 acres of potatoes this year according to Blair Smith, State […]
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To date there have been 17 confirmed reports of late blight in the Eastern U.S. from Louisiana to […]
It seems like every shopper’s worst nightmare. Pennsylvania resident Bonnie Raygor claims she got a bit more than […]