Idaho
Bayer CropScience offers sustainability award
Bayer CropScience is seeking applicants for its Young Farmer Sustainability Award. The fifth annual award recognizes agricultural producers, age 40 an... READ MORE »
Valley Irrigation appoints Kaniewski vice president of global operations
Valley Irrigation has appointed Steve Kaniewski its vice president of global operations. Kaniewski will be responsible for global manufacturing, proce... READ MORE »
McCain expanding Idaho plant
McCain Foods USA has announced that it will expand production at its Burley, Idaho plant with the addition of a third production line. McCain is inve... READ MORE »
Dry spring and summer forecast for Western states
The USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service National Water and Climate Center hydrologists predict dry conditions to continue, resulting in red... READ MORE »
PCN detected in two new Idaho fields
Two more fields were positively confirmed as infested with pale cyst nematodes (PCN) in Bonneville County, Idaho on Jan. 2, according to Tina Gresham... READ MORE »
Pest management seminar at Miller Research
Miller Research will be holding two potato pest management research meetings on Mon., Dec. 10.
The morning meeting lasts from 9–12:15. Th... READ MORE »
Idahoan Foods receives training fund
Eastern Idaho potato processor Idahoan Foods will receive up to $240,000 from the Idaho Department of Labor's Workforce Development Training Fund (WD... READ MORE »
Idaho potato production up 12 percent
Potato production in Idaho for 2011 is predicted to total 127 million cwt., according to a press release from the United States Department of Agricult... READ MORE »
States receive specialty crop block grants for potato research
Colorado:Partner with Colorado Potato Administrative Committee to develop and promote a branded potato that is unique to Colorado to help increase sal... READ MORE »
Zebra chip found in two southern Idaho counties
The University of Idaho reports that zebra chip has been confirmed in Idaho by USDA Agricultural Research Service tests of samples from a potato proce... READ MORE »
