Production
US Potato Board Dehy Workshop: Part 1
Teresa Kuwahara, manager of the USPB International Marketing Committee's Dehy, Food Aid and Market Access Program, leads a deny workshop at Miles... watch »
USPB Dehy Workshop: Part 2
Sandra Wood, USDA Farm Service Agency procurement office, discusses her experience at the deny workshop.... watch »
Idaho psyllid test positive for liberibacter
The first psyllid to test positive for liberibacter (Lso), the bacterium that causes zebra chip disease, has been confirmed.The psyllid was collected ... 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 »
U.S. trade impasse with Mexico
U.S. fresh potatoes were allowed to enter the entire country of Mexico for 19 days. Then the Mexican grower organization, CONPAPA, filed a lawsui... watch »
BASF 2014 media summit
Markus Heldt, president of BASF's crop protection division and Nevin McDougall, BASF senior vice president of North American crop protection, dis... watch »
Psyllids found in Pacific Northwest
Potato psyllids have been found in Idaho, Oregon and Washington this spring. This is the earliest date for psyllids to be reported in the Pacific Nort... more »
U.S. potato cost of production for 2014
Paul Patterson, University of Idaho Extension agricultural economist, discusses his projections for cost of potato production for 2014.... watch »
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 »
Understanding Millennials
Meredith Myers, USPB manager of domestic marketing programs, discusses findings from a Sterling Rice Group marketing research paper targeting two... watch »
