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Tuesday, Feb 5
GROWERS REVIEW NEW SOIL FUMIGATION RULES |
KENNEWICK, Wash.—New soil fumigation rules change who can be in the field during a chemical application, a state official
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Monday, Feb 4
ID GROWERS SEEK TO RECOUP ZC COSTS IN CONTRACTS |
Officials representing Idaho potato growers in contract negotiations with processors say a top priority has been recouping
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Monday, Jan 28
FSMA RULES PUBLISHED IN FEDERAL REGISTER |
The proposed Food Safety Modernization Act rules announced by FDA, Standards for the Growing, Harvesting, Packing, and Holding
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Friday, Jan 18
LUNA MRL PROBLEMS LINGER INTO FALL |
Potato growers in the Pacific Northwest will likely have to wait another season before using the new systemic fungicide
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Monday, Jan 14
LATE BLIGHT STILL THREAT |
A pathogen responsible for a plant disease that has caused food shortages and major loss of life in the past, such as the
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Friday, Jan 11
UNITED FRESH BEGINS REVIEW OF SAFETY RULES |
WASHINGTON, D.C.—With the FDA’s release of its proposed Produce Safety rule and Preventive Controls for Human Food rule
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Friday, Jan 4
FARM BILL WILL NEED TO BE RE-DRAFTED |
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congress averted the “fiscal cliff” with the Tuesday night passage of a massive tax measure, which included
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Wednesday, Dec 26
AG’S APPETITE FOR MOBILE INFO GROWS |
GREENSBORO, N.C.—Agriculture is no ordinary business. People in other industries may spend their days in front of a computer,
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Monday, Dec 24
RESEARCHER CALLS FOR RING ROT TEST LAB |
Following a season in which bacterial ring rot resurfaced in Idaho's potato crop, a University of Idaho researcher hopes
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Friday, Dec 21
FUNGICIDES MAY INHIBIT PSYLLID TREATMENTS WHEN MIXED |
RUPERT, Idaho—The best insecticides for controlling the potato psyllids that spread the crop disease zebra chip may lose
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© 2013 Potato Grower® Magazine
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