Potato

The latest monitoring season for potato psyllid in Idaho has begun, with several captures in the first week of trapping.

At the 61st Annual Washington Commercial Seed Lot Trial in Othello, Washington, we speak with Tim Waters, educator, researcher, and entomologist at Washington State University.

In late June, PNW Ag visited the Hermiston Potato Field Day in Oregon, hosted by OSU. Here we talked with Sagar Sathuvalli, Oregon State University's potato breeder.

Fellow Idahoans, the terrible jokes are going to be coming in fast and furious. Be ready.

The 2024 Washington and Oregon Potato Conference and Trade Show is underway this week, held at the Three Rivers Convention Center in Tri-Cities, Washington.

The USDA's most recent crop production report has been released for the Pacific Northwest, covering corn for grain, sugarbeets, and potatoes. All three crops have forecasts of production increases across the board over last year's numbers.

Several studies have shown applying mineral oil is an economically and environmentally sustainable way for seed potato growers to prevent the transmission of potato virus Y

The potato is one step closer to becoming the state vegetable of Oregon.  State Senator Bill Hansell posed this question before this week's vote.   "Should the potato the Oregon vegetable be, or not to be, that is the question before us."   Hans...

The past two years have been challenging for potato growers across the Pacific Northwest.  Last year, the growing and planting season was delayed thanks to a late spring snow storm that dumped several inches of snow in several locations.  An...

Nearly $101 billion.  That’s the economic impact the potato industry has on the U.S. economy.   On Tuesday, the National Potato Council released, "Measuring the Economic Significance of the U.S. Potato Industry," a comprehensive analysis on the domestic economic impact of potatoes.  The analysis, auth...