INDUSTRY DIRECTORY
September 30, 2015
Potato Harvesting

Bloggers Come to Idaho for Harvest

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September 30, 2015
Potato Harvesting
Julia Bayly, Bangor Daily News

Maine Family Carries on Harvest Tradition

One thing has never changed at Martin Farm in northern Maine. Come September, generations of the family and hired workers are in the fields picking potatoes by hand.
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September 29, 2015
Insecticide

No Zebra Chip in Alberta Psyllids: Nine cases of potato psyllids were found but none was carrying zebra chip disease

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September 29, 2015

Bayer CropScience Combats Hunger : #Thankful4Ag campaign hits the road with to raise greater awareness and help provide meals to families in need

Bayer CropScience today announces the launch of its third annual #Thankful4Ag campaign, a national social initiative dedicated to helping feed families in need in the U.S. and educating consumers about their food.
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September 28, 2015
Potato Harvesting
Kathryn Olmstead

Fourth-graders Learn about Harvest Tradition

More than 25 years have passed since children at Katahdin Elementary School in Stacyville, Maine, were released from classes to harvest potatoes, but every year, fourth-graders at the school still get a taste of a traditional harvest.
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September 25, 2015
Potato Harvesting
Shannon Ballard

Alaska Sees Near-Record Harvest

This time of year, farmer Ben VanderWeele spends nearly every morning the same way. He oversees hundreds of tons of potatoes as they’re cleaned, set on a conveyor belt and put into storage.
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September 25, 2015
Seed Potatoes
Jayson O’Neill

Montana Seeks Proposals for Potato Research Grants

The Montana Potato Research and Market Development Program is seeking proposals to advance opportunities and address the needs of the state potato industry.
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September 24, 2015
Potato Harvesting
AP

Maine Growers Happy with Harvest: The amount of rain and sun was perfect this year, growers say.

The bright sun is outshining Maine’s reputation for fickle weather as the potato harvest gets underway in earnest following an excellent growing season, potato growers said.
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September 24, 2015
Krysta Harden, USDA Deputy Secretary

Veterans Find Opportunities in Agriculture

An increasing number of veterans are pursuing careers in agriculture because they believe that it helps them successfully transition to civilian life, gives them purpose, and enables them to serve their community
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September 23, 2015
Fertilizer
Amber Moore and Megan Satterwhite, University of Idaho

Using Dairy Manure in Potato Production

In regions like southern Idaho, the overlap between potato and dairy production has opened the option for potato growers to work with dairy manure as a potentially beneficial soil amendment.
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September 23, 2015
Potato Harvesting

Harvest Under Way in SE Idaho

Potato harvest kicked into high gear this week in Idaho’s Power County.
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September 23, 2015
Potato Harvesting, Potato Storage
Dale Hildebrant

N.D. Grower Awaits Harvest

Paul Fossum is ready for his potato, soybean and sugarbeet harvests.
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September 22, 2015
Fungicide, Herbicide, Insecticide

Idaho Pesticide Disposal Pick-ups Announced: Collections scheduled for the Magic Valley, Nampa are safe, legal and free

Agricultural producers, dealers, professional applicators and homeowners who are storing unusable pesticides will have a safe, legal and free opportunity to dispose of them this fall.
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September 22, 2015
Ross Courtney

Washington State Potato Values Down

Washington State’s 2014 potato crop value is down from 2013, according to the latest USDA numbers.
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September 21, 2015
Jeanine Bentley

Potatoes Account 30 Percent of Vegetable Availability

Even though vegetable consumption is more diverse than it was 40 years ago, many Americans keep coming back to the same few favorites.
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September 17, 2015
Potato Equipment, Potato Harvesting

Potato Harvest Drives Local Ag Business

With potato harvest just around the corner, farmers are making sure all their equipment is ready to go. And that means big business for the shops that service them.
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September 16, 2015| Published in the September 2015 issue

Catching It Early: Intercepting silver scurf in potato storage

Silver scurf is one of the most notorious cosmetic diseases of potatoes.
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September 16, 2015| Published in the September 2015 issue
Allen Thayer, Assistant Editor

Celebrating the Potato Industry: Growers Reconnect and Celebrate 25th Anniversary

Thirty-six teams teed off in the 25th Annual Potato Grower Industry Golf Tournament at Idaho Falls (Idaho) Country Club on July 20.
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September 16, 2015| Published in the September 2015 issue
T.K. Kuwahara, Global Ingredients Marketing Manager, U.S. Potato Board

Changing Lives around the World: Creating new markets for U.S. potatoes

Many times, we take the goodness of a potato for granted.
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September 16, 2015| Published in the September 2015 issue
Nora Olsen and Alexander Karasev

Going Viral: Discerning among common virus-induced diseases

Harvest finally allows us to gauge the quality of the new, incoming crop.
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September 16, 2015| Published in the September 2015 issue
Frank Muir, IPC President and CEO

Good for the Heart: IPC partners with American Heart Association

Over the last year we at the Idaho Potato Commission (IPC) have worked closely with leadership at the American Heart Association (AHA) to make it easier and more cost-effective for shippers to carry the well-respected and widely recognized heart-check mar
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September 16, 2015| Published in the September 2015 issue
Jan Suszkiw, USDA-ARS

Lady(bug)'s Aid : Improving a native insect's biocontrol prospects

“Necessity is the mother of invention,” the saying goes.
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September 16, 2015| Published in the September 2015 issue
Jerry Wright, UPGA President/CEO

Market Share vs. Prosperity: Sometimes, less really is more

At some point in its development, every business faces the same age-old dilemma: What effect will increasing market share have on my business’s profitability?
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September 16, 2015| Published in the September 2015 issue
John Keeling, Executive VP and CEO

Meet Me in Montana: NPC holds 2015 summer meeting

In mid-July, growers and industry leaders from across the country met in Kalispell, Mont., to discuss public policy and organizational objectives at the National Potato Council’s (NPC) 2015 summer meeting.
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September 16, 2015| Published in the September 2015 issue
Tyrell Marchant, Editor

Real People, Real Results: Senniger Irrigation's Recipe for Success

One of the biggest problems agricultural producers face is the utter lack of understanding the consuming public has of where its food comes from.
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September 16, 2015| Published in the September 2015 issue
Tyrell Marchant, Editor

What's in a Name?: Who we really are

When I was in college, I took several courses from a relatively young professor about whom every student had an opinion.
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September 16, 2015| Published in the September 2015 issue

Worth a Few Thousand Words

Ah, summer.
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September 16, 2015
Fungicide, Potato Harvesting, Potato Storage
Allan Dawson

Late Blight Found in Manitoba

Late blight has been found for the first time this year in the Carberry, Manitoba area.
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September 16, 2015

Petite Potatoes Post Double-Digit Growth

For the 52 weeks ending June 28, 2015, versus the year-ago period, petite potato dollar sales are ahead by 10.8 percent, and volume sales are up 10.7 percent.
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September 15, 2015
Ed Boling

IPC Extends Idaho Brand

With the local movement gaining steam, Idaho Potato Commission president Frank Muir championed locale over local.
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September 14, 2015
Potato Harvesting

San Luis Valley Expects Solid Crop

Growers in Colorado’s San Luis Valley expect good potato quality and demand this season.
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September 10, 2015
Potato Harvesting
The Associated Press

Idaho Growers Hopeful for Harvest

With digging season just around the corner, eastern Idaho potato growers say they are optimistic they will improve on a middling 2014 harvest this year.
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September 09, 2015
Fungicide, Potato Storage

BioSafe Offers Free Support Equipment for Potato Growers

BioSafe Systems announced a new promotion for potato growers that runs through Oct. 9.
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September 09, 2015
Fertilizer, Irrigation
Rosalie Marion Bliss

Toolset Identifies Water Conservation Options

Excess nutrients from watershed runoff can affect downstream water users and the ecological quality of aquatic environments. Now, a new software toolset developed by ARS scientists is geared to better manage the runoff of nutrients.
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September 08, 2015
Tad Thompson, The Produce News

WPVGA Educates, Promotes Potatoes

Promotions of Wisconsin potatoes are widening for the Wisconsin Potato & Vegetable Growers Association.
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September 07, 2015
Event Calendar

Three Recognized for Promoting Diversity in Ag

Increasing diversity in the workplace is not always easy, but three will be recognized with the Women in Agribusiness Demeter Award of Excellence for doing just that in the agribusiness sector.
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September 05, 2015
Chris Koger

Potato Officials Focus on School Foodservice

As students returned to schools in the past month, the controversy over nutrition mandates calling for more fruits and vegetables on students’ lunch trays heated up again.
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September 05, 2015
Seed Potatoes

Minnesota Seed Grower Expands Operations

A Minnesota-based seed potato company recently expanded its operations. Founded in 1945, Pieper Farms supplies seed potatoes to growers both domestically and internationally.
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September 04, 2015
Potato Harvesting

N.W.T. Grower Digs Potatoes : After a three-year hiatus,, Doug Whiteman is harvesting again.

After a three-year break, Doug Whiteman of Norman Wells, Northwest Territories, is getting ready to pull another harvest of Canada’s most northern potatoes out of the ground.
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September 03, 2015

Survey Shows Consumer Attitudes on Ag

Earlier this week, the U.S. Farmers & Ranchers Alliance shared insights from a recent consumer survey focused on farming, ranching and sustainability.
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September 03, 2015
Fertilizer
Michael H. O’Donnell

Magnida Fertilizer Project Moves Forward

For a community hungry for higher-paying jobs, news of the proposed Magnida fertilizer plant project reaching a new milestone was well-received.
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September 02, 2015

Farm Market iD Releases 2014 Farmland Database

Farm Market iD announced the release of its updated farm and land database, which now covers harvest year 2014.
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September 02, 2015
Matt Swayne

Colored Potatoes May Aid Cancer Prevention

Compounds found in purple potatoes may help kill colon cancer stem cells and limit the spread of the cancer, according to a team of researchers.
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September 02, 2015
Christopher Doering

USDA Expects Dip in Exports

U.S. exports will fall to $138.5 billion in fiscal year 2016 due largely to decreased shipments of soybeans and soymeal, the Agriculture Department said last week.
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September 01, 2015
New Products

AgCommand API Open to Third-Party Developers: New functionality enhances customers’ abilities to access machine data

AGCO Corporation announced that its AgCommand application programming interface is now open to approved third-party developers and service providers of farming applications.
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September 01, 2015

Traceability and the Consumer

Customers are more likely to purchase food products when grocers use food traceability systems to show where and how the food was produced and shipped, according to new research from the University at Buffalo School of Management.
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September 01, 2015
Fungicide, Potato Harvesting
Michael Tucker

Late Blight Found in Montana

Late blight was found in Churchill, Mont., potato fields last week, but experts and growers are optimistic the disease would not have long-term affects on the seed potato industry in the Gallatin Valley.
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