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oktober 18, 2012

Seed Potato Aging, Bacterial Ring Rot Webcasts Available in Focus on Potato

Understanding the physiology of seed potato aging and how it affects crop growth and yield can be vital to the industry. Such knowledge will allow growers to adopt management practices that control the aging process and optimize tuber set and size.

oktober 11, 2012

South Korea lifts ban on Pacific Northwest grown potatoes

South Korea has lifted a ban against Pacific Northwest-grown potatoes used for things like potato chips, but a ban on other fresh potatoes still remains because of a fear over a bacterium known as zebra chip, state officials announced Wednesday during ...

september 21, 2012

Idaho Potato Industry task force to probe origin of ring rot in Idaho potatoes

The Idaho potato industry is forming a task force to trace the origin of a ring rot flare-up that's affected roughly 20 farms, mostly in the Magic Valley area. University of Idaho Extension seed potato pathologist Phil Nolte, who will likely head the ...

september 20, 2012

Potato wart confirmed on Prince Edward Island

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has confirmed the presence of potato wart in two fields on separate farms in PEI. Potato wart poses no threat to human health or food safety. However, it is a quarantine pest that is regulated in Canada becau...

september 03, 2012

University of Wisconsin scientists probe, attack late blight in potatoes

As the annual potato harvest begins, Wisconsin farmers continue to check their fields for late blight, the ferocious plant disease that caused the 1848 Irish potato famine and fueled massive emigration from Ireland.

augustus 30, 2012

Using Pathogen Detection Test Kits for Rapid Potato Disease Diagnosis

The latest Focus on Potato Webcast from the Plant Management Network is available and addresses the use of Pathogen Detection Test Kits for Rapid Potato Disease Diagnosis: Using Pathogen Detection Test Kits for Rapid Potato Disease Diagnosis

augustus 28, 2012

Potato psyllid populations growing dramatically in Columbia Basin

Researchers say populations of potato psyllids - vectors of a new crop disease to the region called zebra chip - are growing dramatically in the Columbia Basin.

augustus 23, 2012

US potato industry working to reverse ban on domestic exports to South Korea

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal &Plant Health Inspection Service is working to provide data to officials in South Korea that it hopes will result in a reversal of a decision to ban potato exports from Oregon, Washington and Idaho.

augustus 21, 2012

Take proactive approach to zebra chip, potato psyllid management

ast year, zebra chip made headlines when the potato disease caught a couple of Columbia Basin growers off guard and devastated their crop.

augustus 21, 2012

NDSU Potato Blightline for August 20

The NDSU Potato Blightline for August 20th sponsored by Syngenta Crop Protection has been issued.

Zebra chip disease affected potato tubers

augustus 16, 2012

University of Idaho receives grant to study zebra chip disease

The federal government is providing $109,000 for the University of Idaho to study an emerging plant disease the school says “poses a substantial threat to the state’s potato industry.” The money will be used to monitor potato fields for the presence o...

augustus 09, 2012

Canadian government invests in potato research

Canadian Potato producers received a boost from the federal Government, as Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz and Member of Parliament Mike Allen (Tobique–Mactaquac) attended the Centennial celebrations at the Potato Research Centre in Fredericton, NB.

augustus 02, 2012

'Zebra chip' disease concerns Northwest potato growers

Northwest agriculture researchers in the US say they are finding more cases of a zebra chip disease in the region’s potatoes.

augustus 01, 2012

Botrytis blight a problem for Michigan potatoes this year

According to a report from Michigan State University, Botrytis blight is causing problems in potatoes throughout Michigan this season.

juli 26, 2012

US organic potato growers have no approved zebra chip options

While other potato growers use preventative insecticide applications to protect their crops from a new disease to the Pacific Northwest, called zebra chip, Fred Brossy can only wait and see if it hits him.

Late blight (Phytophthora Infestans) on potato leaf

juli 05, 2012

New York State growers warned of late blight

Home gardeners and commercial growers are alerted of the potential introduction of late blight this growing season, as it has been confirmed in Suffolk County.

juli 04, 2012

Idaho potato growers concerned over zebra chip

Liberibacter, the bacterium responsible for zebra chip, has been found in an Idaho potato field.

juli 02, 2012

AgriLife Research zeroes in on potato disease insect

Do potato psyllids migrate from one location to the next, starting in northern Mexico and moving northward as the potato season progresses, or are psyllid populations local?