Potato

According to the latest numbers from NASS, Idaho’s potato crop this year is forecast at 135 million cwt, down 6% from last year.  Harvested area, at 314,500 acres, is down 15,000 acres from 2023.  Yield is expected to be 430 cwt per acre, down 5 cwt from 2023.   Potato prod...

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

Are we being trolled by a government agency? Something feels off.

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...