A COUPLE of months ago, Jerry Wright, former CEO of United Potato Growers of America (UPGA), announced […]

Growers concerned about Potato Virus Y (PVY) can now turn to a Web page dedicated to the disease, […]

Potato stocks held by growers, dealers, and processors in Idaho on Dec. 1, 2011 totaled 88.0 cwt, 7.0 […]

United Potato Growers of America (UPGA) has announced that Jerry Wright will return to lead the grower-based organization […]

In the early days of 2000, potato growers in the southern U.S. were forced to begin dealing with […]

Tweet//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js On Friday, Nov. 18, President Obama signed a government funding extension that included 2012 appropriations funding for […]

The J. R. Simplot Company is planning to build a state-of-the-art potato processing plant in Caldwell, ID, with […]

WITH nearly one-third of today’s children and teens overweight or obese, most parents would support restricting school sales […]

A new processing potato variety produced a yield of 777 cwt. per acre, which is big news indeed. […]

“We have a passion for potatoes,” Gregg Halverson, president and CEO of Black Gold Farms, told a crowd […]

Tweet//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js U.S. potato and product exports were a record $1,350,213,480 and 1,366,649 metric tons for the July 2010–June […]

Washington state potato growers have voted to continue their federal marketing order program. Eighty percent of growers who […]

Research conducted in part at USDA has confirmed that in some production systems, planting potatoes in flat beds […]

Tweet https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Pink rot (Phytophthora erythroseptica), late blight (Phytophthora infestans) and pythium leak (Pythium ultimum) all have several […]

It might not be a new disease, and in fact it shows up every summer in most warm-weather […]

A USDA scientist has created a test that identifies the type of potato cyst nematode infesting a grower’s […]

The Potato Genome Sequencing Consortium (PGSC), a team of scientists from institutions worldwide, including Virginia Tech, has published […]

To begin, there are a couple of types of bruises that impact potatoes: black spot bruise and shatter […]

As I prepare for the summer, I can’t help but wonder what lies ahead for vegetable growers in […]