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Lessons From Life: How to Prevent Seed Tubers from Becoming Ticking Time Bombs
I was supposed to go for beer with a buddy of mine last week when he called me sheepishly to postpone. The issue was...
Maximize Potato Quality from Field to Storage
Harvest is a hectic time of year filled with decisions that can make or break your potato season. A few Sundays ago, I got...
Increased Yields Equals More “Servings”
Whether you side with organic or conventional, soil fumigation or in-crop disease management, no-till, cover crops or any of the so many other components...
Are You Giving Your Spuds a 1-Star or 4-Star Experience?
We’re rolling our way towards the end of harvest. Across the country, potato growers are heaving a sigh of well-earned relief as great looking...
It’s ‘Harvest Earned, Not Harvest Given’
Every potato a farmer pulls from his or her field is a potato earned.
Yes, Mother Nature controls many of the factors that can make...
It’s Go Time! Here’s Your Playbook as Potatoes Enter Storage
It’s my favourite time of year: harvesters are rolling in fields and we’re starting to see the results of a whole growing season’s efforts...
Perfect Your Variety Mix for Storage and Market Success
I had the opportunity to visit field trials in Washington and Idaho with our breeder last week.
As we traveled to various plots, we were...
Agricultural Science Done Right Resolves Social Science Intentions
At the end of June, I had the opportunity to present on ‘functional sustainability’ at the World Potato Conference in Adelaide, Australia… and what...
Do You Know (And Appreciate) the Hidden Heroes Beneath Our Feet?
The soil microbiome is an infinitely more beautiful, diverse, complex ecosystem than most realize.
One gram of soil can hold more than fifty thousand (50,000!)...
Adapt and Collaborate to Stabilize Potato Prices
I’m worried. I’m sitting here looking at the annual report of planted acres in the North American Potato Market News, and it looks like...
Lessons From Life: How to Prevent Seed Tubers from Becoming Ticking Time Bombs
I was supposed to go for beer with a buddy of mine last week when he called me sheepishly to postpone. The issue was...
Maximize Potato Quality from Field to Storage
Harvest is a hectic time of year filled with decisions that can make or break your potato season. A few Sundays ago, I got...
Increased Yields Equals More “Servings”
Whether you side with organic or conventional, soil fumigation or in-crop disease management, no-till, cover crops or any of the so many other components...
Are You Giving Your Spuds a 1-Star or 4-Star Experience?
We’re rolling our way towards the end of harvest. Across the country, potato growers are heaving a sigh of well-earned relief as great looking...
It’s ‘Harvest Earned, Not Harvest Given’
Every potato a farmer pulls from his or her field is a potato earned.
Yes, Mother Nature controls many of the factors that can make...
It’s Go Time! Here’s Your Playbook as Potatoes Enter Storage
It’s my favourite time of year: harvesters are rolling in fields and we’re starting to see the results of a whole growing season’s efforts...
Perfect Your Variety Mix for Storage and Market Success
I had the opportunity to visit field trials in Washington and Idaho with our breeder last week.
As we traveled to various plots, we were...
Agricultural Science Done Right Resolves Social Science Intentions
At the end of June, I had the opportunity to present on ‘functional sustainability’ at the World Potato Conference in Adelaide, Australia… and what...
Do You Know (And Appreciate) the Hidden Heroes Beneath Our Feet?
The soil microbiome is an infinitely more beautiful, diverse, complex ecosystem than most realize.
One gram of soil can hold more than fifty thousand (50,000!)...
Adapt and Collaborate to Stabilize Potato Prices
I’m worried. I’m sitting here looking at the annual report of planted acres in the North American Potato Market News, and it looks like...
