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Spudman 7: Mike Wenkel
Mike Wenkel joined the staff of the Michigan Potato Industry Commission (MPIC) in August 2012 as the executive director. His responsibilities include ... more »
Show-Me Spuds
How did John Halverson, a fourth generation potato grower from North Dakota and a member of Black Gold Farms, become the lone potato grower in the Cot... more »
Storage Quality
When it comes to potato storage there are two things every farmer needs to know. First, no crop, no matter how good it was when harvested, is going to... more »
Southern Man
Cotton is king in the south. That's a lesson that John Halverson quickly learned when he went down to Arbyrd, Missouri to set up a new potato operatio... more »
Truck weight reform results in safer highways
In our nation's capital, an effort has been revived to reform the rules for shipping cargo on federal highways. At issue is a federal interstate law t... more »
Act one: go slow, (despacio*)
Vive la Mexico!I could have sworn that I heard this collective shout of celebration (or was it a sigh of relief) from the potato industry on March 20.... more »
Getting It Done
A desire to follow the money took Brett Jensen, 43, of Idaho Falls, on a path that led to his 2014 election as chairman of the U.S. Potato Board (USPB... more »
Heavier Loads
Proponents of increasing truck load limits on interstate highways are in for the long haul, according to industry analysts.Introduced in the U.S. Hous... more »
Clean Water Rule
Federal regulators issued a much-anticipated proposed rule on the Clean Water Act (CWA) this spring just as U.S. farmers were getting ready for anothe... more »
When facts don’t matter
Sitting at my desk in Washington, D.C., I am regularly forwarded emails from so-called pro-consumer groups urging people to support their latest publi... more »
