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Promoting Potatoes in New Zealand and South Africa

How two Southern Hemisphere nations are leading the way in innovative potato marketing. In the past two issues of Spud Smart, we focused on potato...

Promoting Potatoes — The American Way

How the United States Potato Board is fuelling potato sales in international markets. The United States Potato Board was created in 1971, the result of...

Promoting Potatoes — British Style

Why the Canadian potato industry could learn much from the way potatoes are marketed in the United Kingdom. Canadian-born writer Nathaniel Branden once wrote: “In...

Killing Weeds with Less

How banded herbicide applications can help the environment, and also pay off for potato producers. Successful weed management is one of the cornerstones of successful...

Tackling Acrylamide

Acrylamide is causing concern in the industry, but there may be hope on the horizon in the form of new acrylamide-preventing technologies. The term “acrylamide” has...

Chemical Pest Control Products: Resistance Update

Signs of resistance should be answered with careful resistance management strategies. Stakeholders in the potato industry, from members of the scientific community to manufacturers of...

Promoting Potatoes in New Zealand and South Africa

How two Southern Hemisphere nations are leading the way in innovative potato marketing. In the past two issues of Spud Smart, we focused on potato...

Promoting Potatoes — The American Way

How the United States Potato Board is fuelling potato sales in international markets. The United States Potato Board was created in 1971, the result of...

Promoting Potatoes — British Style

Why the Canadian potato industry could learn much from the way potatoes are marketed in the United Kingdom. Canadian-born writer Nathaniel Branden once wrote: “In...

Killing Weeds with Less

How banded herbicide applications can help the environment, and also pay off for potato producers. Successful weed management is one of the cornerstones of successful...

Tackling Acrylamide

Acrylamide is causing concern in the industry, but there may be hope on the horizon in the form of new acrylamide-preventing technologies. The term “acrylamide” has...

Chemical Pest Control Products: Resistance Update

Signs of resistance should be answered with careful resistance management strategies. Stakeholders in the potato industry, from members of the scientific community to manufacturers of...