August 2013

Contents

Volume 42 Issue 8

 

Departments

10 Calendar

14 Around the Vine

16 New Products

54 Final Pass

 

Features

20 Innate: DNA Restructured

A new way to approach biotechnology

 

24 Grower of the Month

Mark Johnson of PicaboIdaho

 

Diggin' In

28 "Inside the USPB LRP!"

From SOPC to Potatopalooza

 

32 Releasing the Right Nutrients

Helping plants survive challenging growing conditions

 

34 Back into the Earth

Utilizing soil microbes all year long

 

36 Bigger and Faster

Western Trailers releases its new Commodity Hopper

40 Using Ethylene
New sprout inhibitor system offers possible CIPC alternative

44 Buyer's Guide-Trucks/Bulk Beds/Trailers

 

Columns

8 From the Field

48 Idaho Potato Commission

50 University of Idaho

52 United Potato Growers of America

53 United States Potato Board