Webinars

Cultivating Quality: How Growers Can Overcome Barriers to Better Potatoes

Weather extremes, pest pressure, and seed limitations are just a few of the challenges today’s potato growers face. Join TriCal Group’s live discussion featuring Dr. Amanda Gevens and Dr. Chad Hutchinson as they explore how to overcome these obstacles and elevate potato quality from the ground up. Learn actionable insights to boost storability, reduce waste, and enhance profitability.

• Dr. Amanda Gevens, plant pathologist and former department chair at the University of Wisconsin. A leading researcher in potato disease management, she’s evaluated a wide range of products and strategies to control common scab in one of North America’s most challenging growing regions.
• Dr. Chad Hutchinson, global director of potato research and market support for TriCal Group, sharing what real-world data reveals about soil fumigation, soil health, and finding the balance between effective control and sustainability.

Sponsored by: TriCal Group

Staying a Step Ahead: How Potato Growers Can Manage Early Blight and White Mold

Season after season, early blight and white mold test even the most experienced potato growers. Join two leading potato experts, Dr. Jeff Miller of Miller Research and Dr. Curtis Rainbolt of BASF, for an insight-packed, field-tested discussion on how to keep these yield-robbing diseases in check. Learn how management decisions and environmental factors can shape disease pressure, which practices make the biggest difference in the field and how Endura® PRO fungicide is helping growers protect their potatoes with confidence.

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Sponsored by: BASF

Potato Nutrient Management and Sustainability

Nutrient management is an important tool for producing high yielding and high-quality potatoes.  In this webinar, we will provide an overview of to manage nutrients in your potato crop and how to use nutrient management as a tool for resilient potato production when facing abiotic (heat, drought, smoke) and biotic stresses (pests and diseases).  We will also discuss nitrogen management in a fertigated potato system. We provide insights and case study data on how to improve nitrogen use efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions on the potato and discuss pathways to further reduce farm-level greenhouse gas emissions now and in future seasons.

Sponsored by: Yara North America

The Future Beneath Your Feet: Disease Control, ROI & Soil Science in Action

What’s really happening underground? In this webinar, experts share data-backed insights on managing soil-borne disease, improving return on investment with Strike/Chloropicrin, and building a resilient soil biome that supports better yields.

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Precision Fertilization: Boosting Potato Yields and Profitability

Explore the economic potential of your potato crop! In this webinar, we’ll demonstrate how a systems approach to crop nutrition—combining precision techniques and tailoring fertilizers—leads to healthier tubers, higher yields,
and lower fertilizer costs. Learn how balancing nutrients (from source, to rate, to time, to place) can improve potato profitability.

Sponsored by: ICL

Sustainable Potatoes: Why Your Fertility Choices Matters

What does “sustainability” really mean for potato producers?
Join Dr. Jason Haegele, ICL, North American Agronomy Lead and Georg Lemperg, ICL, Global Food Market Relations Manager, as they break down how your
fertility choices directly impact environmental sustainability and profitability from farm to table. Learn about best practices that can be applied on your farm today, supported by research trials and mini-case studies.
In this webinar, we will explore:

* Nutrient synergy and improving Nitrogen Use Efficiency (NUE)
* Maximizing soil-P to reduce phosphorus run-off and P-inputs
* The role of CRFs in reducing nitrous oxide emission
* Trials and research on sustainable fertilizer choices
(Polysulphate, Agrocote, Agrolution pHLow, Nova PeKacid)
* Sustainability through the food value chain

Sponsored by: ICL

The “More Yield, Better Potatoes” Phenomenon Behind Envita

Join Spudman for a roundtable discussion about Envita. Learn more about filling the gap between available and accessible nitrogen with the help of naturally occurring, food-grade bacteria.
Gain insight into how Envita works, view some of the promising results and get your questions answered.

Sponsored by: Azotic.

Data-Driven Decision-Making: Growers Explain How They Stay on Top of Evolving Environmental Challenges

As inflation drives up input costs and extreme weather strains crop yields, many fruit growers are turning to agtech for help. To fine-tune decisions around planting, harvesting, irrigating, preparing for frost, spraying for pests, etc., growers are deploying monitoring solutions that enable them to keep better tabs on crop growth cycles and environmental conditions. In this webinar, Chris Sullivan, president of Davis Instruments, will talk with a panel of fruit growers about the monitoring solutions they are using to stay on top of evolving weather-related challenges.

Sponsored by: Davis Instruments

Increasing Nutrient Efficiency in Potatoes with PeKacid and Agrolution pHLow

How can you make the most of phosphorus soil fertility and fertilizer applications? Potatoes often respond to fertilizer P at soil test levels that would be considered very high for most others crops. Even with high starting soil test P, potatoes often require additional P fertility to optimize yield and quality. High levels of P in soil are often unavailable to plants, especially with elevated soil pH, and inefficient use of P fertilizer application is an environmental concern. When acidifying water-soluble fertilizers, like Pekacid and Agrolution pHLow are used as a source of P in nutrient management programs, the acidifying effect can optimize the availability of applied nutrition, and unlock soil nutrient reserves, resulting in increased nutrient efficiency for higher quality, improved yield, and cost-effective results. Join agronomists Dr. AJ Foster and Dr. Jason Haegele to explore phosphorus management for potatoes, including digging into the latest research on managing soil and fertilizer pH as a tool for making the most of phosphorus. Scroll down to learn about our speakers.

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SpudWeek 2023

SpudWeek, featuring three 1-hour interactive webcasts with industry experts discussing the latest issues facing growers today. Attendees will hear about the latest industry insights, production tips and guidelines to grow successfully.

Learn about how spore capture can detect fungal pathogens in the field and prevent crop loss due to disease. Daniel Mondor from AIR Spore will explain how this has protected growers against late blight and other diseases.
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Get the latest on sustainability for potato producers from the Potato Sustainability Alliance.
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Spudman will host a roundtable with the Spudman Dream Team winners to get the lowdown on production challenges today, how they’re handling them, and what the future of the potato industry may look like in the days ahead.
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