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Quality Control
Whether they’re Russet Burbanks or Ivory Crisps, this year’s storage potatoes might have quality issues that require a unique brand of management. The unusually hot and dry conditions that prevailed...
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Know Your Enemies
Storage diseases can be headache-inducing, but with the right strategies, growers can keep on top of potential problems this fall. When preparing for the storage season, loss of potatoes is one of the...
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Recipe for Storage Success
The devil is in the details in the battle against post-harvest fungal infections in potatoes. Every grower has seen it at one time or another: the signs of pink rot spreading through the bin, and the...
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Managing Fusarium Dry Rot in Potatoes
From planting to storage, fusarium can affect tubers at every stage of the production cycle. Here are some tips for protecting your potatoes. Fusarium is a major problem for potato growers. The fungi,...
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Controlling Silver Scurf
This common disease that causes unsightly blemishes on potatoes can be a headache for fresh market producers. What options are available to growers for controlling silver scurf? One of the more...
View ArticleTop 5 Storage Diseases
The major threats facing potato producers this season — and how to manage or prevent them. Potato growers are familiar with the expression ‘a potato storage is not a hospital’, which reflects the...
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Tools for Success
New innovations in potato storage technology. To protect their investment, it’s important for growers to keep on top of the latest innovations in ventilation, humidification and spout control when...
View ArticleIdaho potato industry makes progress against diseases
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho — The head of Idaho’s potato seed certification program says growers appear to have made progress in controlling bacterial ring rot challenges, and their potato virus Y infection...
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Simple and Effective Late Blight Detection
Spore traps alert growers to late blight pressure. Determining late blight presence and the resulting pressure on potato crops is an ongoing challenge. Usually, potato growers start a preventive...
View ArticleDeveloping wireless sensor technologies to fight potato rot in storage...
In Idaho, potatoes are both a humble stereotype and a half-billion dollar crop. According to the Idaho Farm Bureau Federation, every spring farmers plant more than 320,000 acres of potatoes valued at...
View ArticleProtecting Your Stored Investment
Managing storage temperature is an enormous step to ensuring top quality product. The vast majority of potato producers have a good to excellent understanding of storage management guidelines. Still,...
View ArticlePotato Storage: Keeping an Eye on the Prize
The case could be made that caring for potatoes and for children have a lot in common: Let your guard down for a minute and you’ll pay for it in the end. Like parenting, potato storage is an area in...
View ArticleManaging Weight Loss in Storage
By now, potatoes in most of the U.S. and parts of Canada have been in storage one to two months. The crop is at or nearing holding temperatures specific to the cultivar and use. Storages are being...
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2019 Successful Harvest Checklist for the Storage Crop
Whoever said that “a potato storage is not a hospital” was absolutely right. Diseased or bruised tubers that are stored will not get better. Tubers bruised at harvest are easily invaded by soft rot...
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Preventing Bruise in Potatoes
[deck]From general tips to variety-specific recommendations, these experts deliver the goods on mitigating bruise.[/deck] Meeting the demands of processors and buyers in terms of quality is a constant...
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The Long Haul: Attaining Your Storage Goals
[deck]Three potato experts share some tips on how to achieve storage success.[/deck] Peter VanderZaag, co-owner of Sunrise Potato Storage Ltd. in Alliston, Ont. and a prominent Canadian potato...
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What To Do When Frost Hits
[deck]Tips for making the best of a difficult situation.[/deck] When a pre-harvest hard frost hits — a temperature of -2.22 C or below — growers are faced with some thorny challenges. While a light...
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Storage Innovations
[deck]New products, technologies, and ways of thinking about storing your crop — three experts discuss what’s out there and what’s coming in storage structures, ventilation and sprout control.[/deck]...
View ArticleHarvest and Storage of Potato Crops Exposed to High Moisture Levels
[deck]Storage management strategies for growers for high moisture conditions.[/deck] Frequent and excessive rain received during the growing season is potentially conducive, especially in low spots...
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The Worry with CIPC
A ‘ban’ on the use of CIPC for potato growers in the EU has the potato industry on both sides of the pond concerned. When chlorpropham (CIPC) came up for review in early 2018, European potato growers...
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