INDUSTRY DIRECTORY
June 28, 2019
Articles

Syngenta Helps Find a Better Way Forward for Conservation: Two ongoing pilot projects seek to show that environmental protection and pesticide regulation don’t have to conflict.

Two ongoing pilot projects seek to show that environmental protection and pesticide regulation don’t have to conflict.
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June 28, 2019
Articles

Collaboration Crucial to Solve Global Food and Environmental Challenges

US Farmers & Ranchers Alliance committing to cooperation with food industry to nourish an at-risk world
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June 28, 2019
New Products

New Product: SoilWeb 2.0 App Update

The app gives access to valuable scientific data through modern technology. All the soil information in SoilWeb was collected from the National Cooperative Soil Survey, organized by the NRCS, and accesses soil survey information the agency has been collec
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June 27, 2019
Articles

Eagle Eye Updates Packaging, Promotes Staff

The company, which grows more than 30,000 acres of potatoes and other fresh produce from Idaho to Mexico, has been upgrading its packaging technologies, allowing it to broaden the scope of its potato packaging options.
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June 27, 2019
Articles

Study Reveals Ancestry of European Potatoes: Plants collected by Darwin have helped reveal the ancestry of European potatoes and solve nearly 100 years of debate on the crop’s origins

Plants collected by Darwin have helped reveal the ancestry of European potatoes and solve nearly 100 years of debate on the crop’s origins
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June 27, 2019
New Products

New Product: John Deere 3D Series Compact Utility Tractors

The new John Deere 3D Series compact utility tractors offer a powerful, affordable solution for a wide range of jobs. Available in three horsepower offerings, the 3D Series tractors are designed to tackle everything from pulling and hauling to cutting and
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June 27, 2019
Articles, Fertilizer, New Products

Wilbur-Ellis to Distribute Employ with Harpin aß: National ag distributor increases biological solutions portfolio

National ag distributor increases biological solutions portfolio
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June 27, 2019
Articles

FMC Invests in Delaware Research Facility: FMC Corporation plans $50 million investment in global R&D headquarters in Newark, Del.

FMC Corporation plans $50 million investment in global R&D headquarters in Newark, Del.
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June 27, 2019
Articles
Jennifer Kite-Powell

Inside The High-Tech World Of Microbes For Crops

It is essential to understand that certain microbes can produce nitrogen, but that its ability to produce nitrogen has been suppressed over time.
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June 27, 2019
Articles, New Products

Wilbur-Ellis Acquires Ag Aviation Companies: Ag retailer strengthens presence in Montana’s Golden Triangle

Ag retailer strengthens presence in Montana’s Golden Triangle
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June 26, 2019
Articles, New Products, Potato Equipment

Agri-Service Merges Washington Facilities : Combined facility promises continued integrity and quality customer service, as well as adding Fendt to its products.

Combined facility promises continued integrity and quality customer service, as well as adding Fendt to its products.
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June 26, 2019
Articles
Bob Yirka

Genome Study Reveals History of European Potato

A team of researchers from Germany, Peru, the UK. and Spain has sequenced a large number of potato varieties to learn more about the history of the modern European potato.
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June 26, 2019
Articles
Rebekah Schouten

Lamb Weston to Acquire Australian Frozen Potato Processor

Lamb Weston Holdings, Inc. has entered into an agreement to acquire Ready Meals Pty Ltd., a frozen potato processor based in Hallam, Victoria, Australia.
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June 26, 2019
Articles, Herbicide
John O'Connell

Bad Weed Year Expected in Idaho

Growers throughout much of the state may be in for a weedy growing season, due to cold and rainy spring weather, says a University of Idaho Extension weed expert.
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June 26, 2019
Articles

Perdue: Farmers Hit Hard by Trade Policies

U.S. agriculture secretary Sonny Perdue admitted this week that American farmers have been hit hard by President Donald Trump’s trade policies. But, he said, he would make no promises about continued aid to those paying the price.
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June 26, 2019
Articles
Frank Muir, IPC President and CEO

Spuddy Buddy has Become a Top Mascot in U.S.

The Idaho Potato Commission's mascot has achieved celebrity status.
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June 25, 2019
Articles, Seed Potatoes

Cornell's Uihlein Farm to Close in 2020

After 59 years, the Uihlein Farm of Cornell University in Lake Placid, N.Y., will shut down, effective June 30, 2020. The closure decision was made in March.
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June 25, 2019
Articles

U.S. Sets Wet Record

May 2018 to April 2019 is the wettest 12-month period on record in continental United States
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June 25, 2019
Articles

Future Crop Insurance Will Need 'Unique' Approach

The issues farmers and policymakers hope crop insurance can address in the future will be more difficult than in the past and may require “unique” approaches, a former Agriculture Department Risk Management Agency administrator said at a House Agriculture
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June 21, 2019
Articles

NW Crop Continues to Move at Even Pace

Potato grower-shippers from the Northwest are still working out of storage crop with good supplies.
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June 20, 2019
New Products

New Product: John Deere Specialty Tractors: New models include premium high-clearance tractor ergonomic updates and front-hitch options that expand the company’s product portfolio.

New models include premium high-clearance tractor ergonomic updates and front-hitch options that expand the company’s product portfolio.
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June 20, 2019
Articles, Irrigation, New Products
Andrew Oerman, Valley Irrigation

Irrigation Forecasts: Save Time with Valley Scheduling

Greg Juul and his partner, Troy Betz, own and operate G2 Farming near Hermiston, Oregon. He says technology has given them a competitive advantage.
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June 20, 2019
Articles
Michael Langemeier & Jordan Shockley

Impact of Emerging Technology on Farm Management

Cost economies and the reconfiguration of the value chain are accelerating farm consolidation and structural change in production agriculture. In addition, many economists have described scenarios in which key innovations and technologies could revolution
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June 20, 2019
Articles, Fertilizer, New Products

Vestaron Hires Patel as COO

Ash Patel is the most recent hire as Vestaron continues to round out its corporate leadership team and fulfill its mission of revolutionizing the agricultural insecticide landscape.
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June 20, 2019
Articles

New Factory Heralds New Era for Tong Engineering

Tong Engineering, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of vegetable grading and handling equipment, is looking forward to a new era as it starts work on a brand new production facility in Lincolnshire, UK.
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June 19, 2019
Articles

BioSafe Adds to Sales Team

BioSafe Systems announces the hiring of Mathew Smith and Taylor Vadon as technical sales representatives for its agricultural sales division.
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June 19, 2019
Articles, New Products, Potato Equipment

New Product: Haith Sample Washer

The UK’s leading designer and manufacturer of vegetable handling equipment has taken the guesswork out of sample washing potatoes, carrots, beets and turnips by introducing programmable functionality to the latest version of its Sample Washer.
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June 19, 2019
Articles

Grower-Researchers Reap More than Just Increased Production: Participants in research are motivated by learning, teaching opportunities.

Participants in research are motivated by learning, teaching opportunities.
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June 18, 2019
Articles, Event Calendar

Calendar: WSU Potato Field Day

June 27 in Othello, Wash.
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June 18, 2019
Articles, Fertilizer, New Products

Looking Down, Not Up, at Rain

Nutra-Crop explains why soil nutrients are still important to remember during the rainy planting season.
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June 18, 2019
Articles

Bayer Celebrates National Pollinator Week: Company continues its commitment to bees and other pollinators by spotlighting young people impacting the industry and local groups doing their part i

Company continues its commitment to bees and other pollinators by spotlighting young people impacting the industry and local groups doing their part in planting forage
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June 18, 2019
Articles, Fertilizer, New Products

Take It In: Why do growers so often get little benefit from application of calcium fertilizers?

Why do growers so often get little benefit from application of calcium fertilizers?
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June 18, 2019
Articles

Potato Industry Supports Passage of U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement

The National Potato Council joined with over 950 farm groups and agricultural organizations in a letter urging Congress to immediately ratify the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement.
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June 18, 2019
Articles

Developing Hyperspectral Imaging Technique for PVY Detection

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June 17, 2019
Articles

Idaho Researcher Protects Potato Quality

Nora Olsen helps make sure Idaho's potatoes stay in the best possible shape as they move from field to storage cellar to customer.
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June 17, 2019
Articles, Irrigation

Lindsay CEO Appointed to USDA’s Agriculture Policy Advisory Committee

Lindsay Corporation president and CEO Tim Hassinger has accepted an appointment to the Agricultural Policy Advisory Committee for Trade.
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June 17, 2019
Event Calendar
Kay Ledbetter, Texas A&M University

New Varieties to Highlight Texas A&M Potato Field Day

The annual Texas Potato Breeding and Variety Development Program Field Day, hosted by Texas A&M AgriLife Research and the Barrett Potato Farms, will be July 18.
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June 17, 2019
Articles

Research Aims to Discover Why People Like Potatoes

Chetan Sharma is conducting a project that looks at the sensory aspects of potatoes. He is focusing specifically on the drivers behind what people like about potatoes.
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June 10, 2019
New Products

New Product: Farmwave AI Subscriber Model

Farmwave’s mission is to transform the world’s agricultural information into AI data models that power decision-making and preserve the future of farming.
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June 10, 2019
Articles

MSU Extension Offers Delayed Planting Resources

Midwest farmers are facing difficult planting and farm management decisions after weeks of unrelenting rainfall. Michigan State University Extension has educational resources and programs to help farmers as they deal with delayed planting seasons.
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June 10, 2019
Articles
Matthew Weaver

Researcher Thrives on Questions

Ask a farmer why he or she uses a certain practice, and the reply might be: "Because that's what we've always done." That's not good enough for Mark Pavek.
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June 10, 2019
Articles
Cynthia David

Rain Delays Planting for Ontario Growers

It’s been a frustrating start to the Ontario field crop season, with farmers trying to seed their fields in the cold and wet as the growing window narrows.
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June 07, 2019
Articles, Fungicide, Potato Equipment

Northwest Potatoes at Risk of Late Blight

Recent weather conditions in Washington are increasing the probability of late blight infection in potatoes. Late blight thrives in rainy weather, and under such conditions, can damage potatoes quickly.
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June 07, 2019
Articles
Camille von Kaenel

The Potato Guardians

In the Peruvian Andes, Indigenous potato farmers are working with researchers to develop climate-smart spuds.
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June 06, 2019
Articles, Insecticide, New Products

New Product: NemOMEX Nematicide

NemOMEX is a cost-effective biopesticide with unique qualities in comparison to conventional nematicides. NemOMEX uses an extract from the wood and bark of the soapbark tree.
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June 04, 2019
Articles
Laurie Welch

McCain Holds Grand Opening of Expanded Burley Plant

McDonald’s french fries were scrutinized by robotic eyes, peeled, sorted and bagged in a highly automated process Monday as visitors toured the new McCain Foods USA plant during the company’s grand opening.
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June 04, 2019
Articles, Fungicide, Insecticide, New Products

New Products: Drexel Potato Portfolio

Learn more about Drexel's Dimethoate LV-4 miticide, L-C insecticide and SUFFA insecticide/fungicide.
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June 04, 2019
Articles, Fertilizer, New Products

New Product: Omex Cell Power Zynergy

Results from two years of trials using a new nutrient formulation suggest that it may offer a bonus in the way of synergistic activity. It has been billed as a “unique complex of zinc and copper,” which could form part of an integrated crop management pro
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June 04, 2019
Articles
Malachi Barrett

Michigan Farmers Can Build Commercial Solar Panels on Agricultural Land

Michigan farmers will keep their tax incentives if they build commercial solar panels on land set aside for agricultural use.
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June 03, 2019
Articles, Fertilizer, New Products

Legion Bio Chem Renamed as Nutra-Crop

"New name, same mix-and-match nutrient solutions"
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June 03, 2019
Articles, Insecticide

Creating an Effective Pest Management Program for Potatoes

Pest control is a significant part of a grower’s job, and a thorough integrated pest management (IPM) program can help control key insects that attack potatoes.
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June 03, 2019
Articles

Idaho Grower Gets Big Payout for Elk Damage

Don McFarland filed for $1.028 million in damages due to 500 elk eating his organic Kamut wheat and organic potato crops.
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