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Northwest Region Potato Stocks on June 1, 2022, Totaled 1.75m MT. Potato stocks in Idaho on June 1, 2022, totaled 1.06m metric tons (MT). The disappearance of the Idaho crop to date was ...

ARS scientists released two new varieties of potatoes – ‘Clearwater Russet’ and ‘Blazer Russet’ – that will be used by McDonald’s for French fries. The company has a high criterion for its spuds, ...

The J.R. Simplot Company has agreed on an exclusive, multi-year agreement with the Kraft Heinz Company naming Simplot as the exclusive manufacturer and supplier of its Ore-Ida retail brand. In the agreement, Simplot will ...

A weather-based decision support system that originated 15 years ago in the tree fruit orchards of Washington state has branched into the region’s potato fields. The Pacific Northwest Potato Decision Aid System (DAS) collects ...

The smaller inventories of fresh potatoes are finding higher prices this year, according to USDA data.

AgroScout is an ag-tech company that aims to improve yield quality and quantity through visual inspection in the field. The company believes the main challenges in agriculture and crop management are pest and disease ...

Every year new varieties starts making the rounds. For decades, plant breeders and researchers across North America have spent countless hours meticulously matching potential partners in hopes of creating a better potato. With bleary-eyed, ...

After nearly 25 years of export bans, U.S. potato farmers could begin to distribute and sell more fresh potatoes across all of Mexico by early 2022. American potato farmers and exporters currently ...

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Recently, Lay’s has announced a vodka made in part with the same potatoes used for their potato chips, making the vodka-potato connection ‘feeling’ like a new revelation. Created in partnership with Portland, ...

For the first time ever, a sample of fresh U.S. chipping potatoes arrived in China and was displayed at a tradeshow in Shanghai. This historic event, which is helping to pave the ...

After two decades of work, chipping potatoes from Idaho, Oregon, and Washington were granted access to China, as part of the Phase 1 US-China agreement reached in January of 2020. Since that ...

A knowledge packed learning event for key information on potato diseases, soil health, and growing solutions. Everyone in the potato industry is invited to take part in this knowledge-packed learning event for ...

In late October and early November, US market circumstances performed above year-ago levels. With yields down from a year ago, shipping point prices are visibly up. Based on the U.S. Department of ...

Market conditions for potatoes in the US were running above year-ago levels in late October and early November, according to a report by Tom Karst for The Packer. He reports that the top shipping states ...

Market conditions for potatoes were running above year-ago levels in late October and early November. The top shipping states for potatoes in late October, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, were ...

The USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) released a report containing detailed statistics on the value of the 2020 crop sold in Idaho, Oregon and Washington, as well as figures related to total yield, ...

Last year, the cumulative worth of all potatoes sold for Idaho, Oregon, and Washington was seen at USD1.82bn, according to a USDA regular report from September 29, 2021. All tri-state potato sales ...

High heat in the early summer can lead to reduced yield and deformed potatoes on farmers, said Washington State Potato Commission Executive Director Chris Voigt in a Herald telephone interview. A potato ...

From potato planting to row closure is a busy time for growers. It’s also a busy time for weeds. Getting the herbicides on at the right time and linking up with tillage ...

For potato growers in Idaho and Washington — the two most productive potato-growing states in the country — the lack of rainfall thus far hasn’t hurt farmers’ access to irrigation water.

2021 is a new year for potato growers, and that’s a good thing. “Most growers are pretty happy to have last year behind them,” said Mark Klompien, president and CEO of the United ...

Northwest potato stocks totaled 43.7 million cwt on June 1, down 7.2% from 47.1 million cwt a year ago, the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service reported. According to CapitalPress.com, Idaho stocks totaled ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced a proposed rule to change the handling regulations issued under the federal marketing order for Irish potatoes grown in certain counties in Idaho, and Malheur ...

As a historic drought ravages farms and ranches throughout the Klamath Basin on the California-Oregon border there are visible signs of the calamity everywhere. Fields lie fallow. There are dust storms in ...