Camping On Farms Grows In Popularity For 5th Consecutive Year
The Dyrt, a camping app with all of the public and private campgrounds, RV parks, and free camping locations in the United States, has found that farm camping is increasingly…
Read More
Ted Tschirky of Washington Elected NPC President
Council installs 2025 Executive Committee during NPC Washington Summit The National Potato Council (NPC) installed its 2025 roster of Executive Committee leaders this week at the organization’s annual Washington Summit….
Read More
The Potato Podcast 50: Washington-Oregon Potato Conference 2025 Part 1
Sponsored by: Craig McCloskey with Bluefield Seeding Solutions Brent Rosman with Syngenta Emily Merk with NAPSO Not pictured: Shane Wright with Northwest Norkotah and Bryan Henning with Ag World…
Read More
IPC Nomination Meetings on March 7
NOTICE OF MEETING TO NOMINATE A DISTRICT 1 GROWER MEMBER OF THE IDAHO POTATO COMMISSION Notice is hereby given that on Friday, March 7, 2025, at 9:30 a.m., nominations for one District No. 1…
Read More
Researchers Engineer Potatoes to Withstand Heat
Researchers at the University of Illinois are making progress in engineering potatoes to be more resilient to global warming. The international research project, Realizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency (RIPE), is looking…
Read More
SunRain Withdraws From Seed Market
Potato Seed Solutions, the research and development branch of SunRain, is now part of Europlant America. The company will take over SunRain’s tasks of multiplying and distributing potato varieties. SunRain…
Read More
Famous Idaho Potato Bowl Scores Impressive Numbers
In the 2024 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl, Northern Illinois University beat Fresno State with a score of 28-20. While a one-score game is always intriguing, the Potato Bowl has always…
Read More
BW Flexible Systems Presents New Palletizer
BW Flexible Systems recently launched the Symach 3500S. This push-type palletizer is designed to deliver high-speed stacking and palletizing performance for bags, bales, crates and cases. Its stacking cage is…
Read More
Gaining Global Perspective on Potatoes
By Dale Lathim In November, I had the great privilege of traveling to Asia and Europe to see potato production and processing in each region. The week prior to that,…
Read More
2024 US Potato Crop Smaller Than Expected
By Ben Eborn, Publisher, North American Potato Market News USDA estimates that potato growers produced 417.85 million cwt of potatoes during 2024. That is 22.28 million cwt less than the…
Read More