New Varieties
Cultivar Corner: Erika’s traits include common scab, black dot resistance and cooking profile
Erika is an early-maturing yellow-skin yellow-fleshed variety. It produces shallow eyed, long-oval tubers with excellent flavor and firm cooking textu... more »
Cultivar Corner: Galena Russet is a high-yielding, french fry processing variety
Overview Parentage: A98083-9 x Premier Russet Developer: Northwest Potato Variety Development Program (PVMI) Plant Variety Protection: Applied ... more »
LeRoy Salazar has decades of experience, including growing where potatoes originated
LeRoy Salazar not only has plenty of experience growing potatoes, he has the rather unique experience — at least among American farmers — of havin... more »
HZPC to host Potato Days Live virtual event
HZPC's Potato Days is going virtual in 2020 as Potato Days Live. The networking and information event is set for Nov. 4. Potato Days brings profess... more »
Cultivar Corner: Queen Anne is a ‘visually brilliant’ yellow potato
Queen Anne is a visually brilliant potato with smooth, bright-yellow skin. This attractive mid-season potato produces high marketable yields while sho... more »
RPE to release premium red potato variety, Golden Red, this fall
After years of trials, RPE's new premium red potato variety — Golden Red — will become available to consumers this fall. Golden Reds are a "sup... more »
Cultivar Corner: Huron Chipper has strong tolerance to common scab
Huron Chipper (MSW485-2) is a new chip-processing variety developed by Michigan State University. Parentage: MSQ070-1 x MSR156-7 Developers: Mic... more »
Inside the Industry: Potato Cultivar & Rotation Survey
Spudman recently surveyed readers on potato rotations, why they choose the varieties they grow, cover crops and challenges they face in balancing long... more »
Hybrid potato breeding offers huge potential
Potatoes can be a tough crop to grow. Seed tubers are bulky, perishable and quickly degenerate when pressured by disease. Furthermore, improvement of ... more »
Biotech potatoes can bring improved performance, quality to global markets
From a scientific perspective, the potato is a pretty cool crop to work with. Cultivated potato and its wild relatives contain a lot of diversity — ... more »
