January 2010
- Efficient Commissions In an effort to make their shrinking budgets go farther, the Idaho Potato Commission (IPC), the Washington State Potato Commission (WSPC) and the Oregon Potato Commission (OPC) have initiated exploratory discussions to determine how they could more effectively unify their research programs to share data, at the same time using their financial resources as efficiently as possible.
- Marketing Wada Farms The continued national decline in potato consumption, in both the process and fresh markets, has growers, shippers and industry marketers searching for solutions to end the downward spiral.
- Process Market Outlook The process potato market seems to be in a state of suspended animation across the country at the beginning of 2010.
- Readers Respond – Spudman Grower Survey 2010 Well, if there are two facts you can definitely take away from our 2009 reader survey, it’s that our readers are not shy in expressing their opinions and their opinions are as diverse as the varieties of potatoes out there.
- Spuds in the Sunshine State Southern Florida’s potato industry has seen a dramatic shift in production in recent years as urban sprawl from Miami has decimated fields around Homestead, south of the city.
- Wada Farms There’s a change at the helm of Wada Farms, but the direction of one of Idaho’s largest fresh potato producers will be to stay the course, said Bryan Wada, the new president of the multi-tiered company based in Pingree, Idaho.
- Water Outlook Early indications for the 2010 water year point to sufficient water storage and ground water reserves to get irrigators through the upcoming growing season in the Pacific Northwest and in Colorado’s San Luis Valley.