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Food Safety Conference set for July 13
Food Safety Net Services (FSNS) and Food Safety Net Services Certification and Audit (FSNS C&A) will host the FSNS Food Safety Conference in Amarillo, Texas on Wednesday, July 13. A tour and reception of the FSNS Amarillo Laboratory will follow a... more
Potatoes USA accepting board nominations
Nominations are now open for new Potatoes USA board Members for the 2017-2020 term. Sixty members will be elected or re-elected to fill open seats and the seats of outgoing board members who are completing their second three-year term in March 2017.A... more
Late blight found in Washington state
Late blight has been confirmed in Walla Walla County near Burbank, Washington according to a Washington State University (WSU) potato pest alert report by Dennis Johnson, WSU plant pathologist.This is the earliest we have had late blight in the Colum... more
Psyllids found in Washington state
Potato psyllids were found on yellow sticky cards in Washington state fields near Mattawa, Mesa, Eltopia, Pasco and Burbank. The largest number of psyllids were found in the Burbank area.They are being tested for Liberibacter, the bacterium that caus... more
Psyllids test positive for liberibacter in Idaho
Two potato psyllids found in two Canyon County potato fields in western Idaho tested positive for liberibacter according to a report in the Pacific Northwest Pest Alert Network by Erik Wenninger, University of Idaho Research and Extension Center ento... more
Europatat elects new board
Europatat recently celebrated its 68th Assembly General Meeting (AGM) and elected new board members.The association welcomes re-elected member, Jos Muyshondt as new Europatat president, as well as Domenico Citterio and Gilles Fontaine in the role of ... more
Hydraulic fracturing spills on farms need scrutiny
Hydraulic fracturing, a widely used method for extracting oil and gas from otherwise impenetrable shale and rock formations, involves not only underground injections composed mostly of water, but also a mixture of chemical additives. These chemicals ... more
North Dakota ag commissioner approves Praiz fungicide
North Dakota Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring has issued a Special Local Needs (SLN) registration to Winfield Solutions LLC enabling North Dakota potato producers to manage disease in long-season potatoes with Praiz fungicide.Winfield Solutions... more
Potato storage research advances
Researchers in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences at the University of Wisconsin, Madison conduct potato storage research to assess new varieties. Variety-specific best practices are developed at the UW, Madison Hancock Agricultural Resear... more
Stockton Group appoints new vice president of R&D
The Stockton Group has appointed Shay Shaanan as the new vice president of Research & Development, leading the company's R&D's activities. In his former position, Shaanan was global development manager of the fungicides division at ADAMA (for... more
