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Concerned about water availability? You’re not alone. Agricultural producers everywhere are striving to produce higher-yielding, better-quality potatoes despite increasingly frequent water shortages. Luckily, there’s...

You managed harvest. You got through door close-up. You successfully applied your first dormancy enhancement/sprout suppressant treatment. Now it’s February and you might be...

Every grower knows that a high yielding, high quality potato crop requires good nitrogen management. Too much of a good thing really can be a...

Spud Smart Editor Ashley Robinson, and I recently sat down for a quick Q&A about storing potatoes. Here’s a summary version of our conversation. You...

Drumroll please…. The results are in from this year’s trials and – at a whopping 12.6 to 1 (!!) return on investment – Stimulate’s results...

As a storage guy, I regularly get asked by producers what changes they can make through the storage season that would have the biggest...

Potato Expo – North America’s biggest potato meeting of the year – is coming up Jan, 4 to 5 in Aurora, Colo. Are you booked...

Hal Reed is a well-known agronomist, specializing in potatoes, with ICI Taber. I re-introduced Fortified Stimulate Yield Enhancer to him one year ago. Last...

What do cassette tapes, ‘Spacewar’ (the first ever computer video game), Wonderbras, hand-held calculators, ARPA Net (the precursor to the Internet), the Ford Mustang,...

The countdown is on to our free, open-to-all online Potato School, Dec. 13. One of the speakers I’m excited to hear from is North...