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“When farmers think about PVY and finding it, they think about the field. We can do fields, but I don’t want to be
With more than a dozen researchers from multiple universities on the agenda, it was a dog that stole the show at the Washington State University Potato Field Day, held June 23 in Othello, Washington. Zora, a young black Labrador, demonstrated her abilities to detect Potato virus Y (PVY) in front of an attentive audience.
The virus has a distinct smell, according to Parish, and Zora is trained to pick up on three strains of PVY with high accuracy. She is most accurate when working with lower rates of PVY. In fields with 30 percent PVY infection, for example, the smell is overwhelming to a dog. Zora scouts potato fields when plants are about 3 inches tall, well before visual symptoms of PVY, if any, are present. But ideally, Parish prefers to focus on tubers in a controlled environment, rather than plants in a field where wind can carry a scent.
Andrea Parish, a dog handler and owner of Nose Knows Scouting, is using her specially trained K-9s to sniff out PVY and bacterial ring rot in potato plants and tubers. Making her way through a research plot of potatoes and running along a line of cups containing tubers, Zora correctly identified PVY-infected plants and tubers time after time.
a rogueing crew,” Parish says. “I want farmers to think about we can detect it in tubers. How is that of value to you?”
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Working Like a Dog
Zora sniffs each container of potatoes, looking for the tuber infected with Potato virus Y.
Working during the months following harvest, Zora can identify bags that contain tubers with PVY with over 99 percent accuracy, Parish says. The dog can then go back through and pick out the individual tubers that are infected.
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“I want seed growers to think about we can go through those bags and give them instant results at the time of harvest and we can clean lots over the winter before they plant. So for seed certification, you can have a clean seed lot and you can know if you have a problem at harvest,” Parish explains.
Parish sees the use of dogs having
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Confident in the concept, Parish began working with Zora and then launched her new business in March 2020. She now works with three dogs in potatoes;
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“I was so surprised farmers were not using dogs to detect disease and that the agriculture community wasn’t doing it,” she recalls. “That seemed antiquated to me.”
While working as a physical therapist, Parish discovered an interest in search and rescue work and became very interested in tracking dogs. Looking for something for her dog to do in the offseason, she asked her husband, a potato specialist, if dogs were used to detect disease in potatoes.
Andrea Parish tosses a ball into the air for Zora to catch. This is the dog’s reward for identifying Potato virus Y.
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potential to make smaller-scale winter grow-out testing feasible. She also believes dogs can substantially change ring rot testing methods, resulting in cost savings for farmers and ultimately, the eradication of ring rot in the U.S. in 10 years.
Field day attendees examine some Colorado potato beetles.
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Tim Waters, a WSU area extension educator, discusses Colorado potato beetle control.
Andrea Parish, a dog handler and owner of Nose Knows Scouting, and Zora, a specially trained Labrador, scout a field for Potato virus Y.
Viewers of the seed lot trial look for a mosaic pattern in the leaves of a potato plant that might indicate Potato virus Y infection.
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“The end user and commercial farms would like the seed growers to use the dog so when the seed gets to them, they have cleaner potatoes, and the seed growers are seeking me out because I am a good tool for them to use to keep their seed clean,” Parish says. “It’s largescale testing with lower cost with a high accuracy rate and instant results.”
Parish generally works with clients on an annual contract because her work as a handler is a yearlong commitment. It initially takes three months to train a dog, followed by constant ongoing training. She is observed weekly and certified every six months to make sure she and her dogs can do what she says they can Montanado.
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State University has received a grant to conduct a two-year study testing the accuracy of the dogs to detect diseased tubers in bags. That work will begin this fall.
Zora and Dudley are trained to sniff out PVY, while Scout is trained to detect ring rot. The business is in its third year of working with commercial seed farms, in the fields and in storages.
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Projects include evaluating potato varieties potentially resistant to the pest and testing the efficacy of new chemical products, biological products and “old” chemistry.“We’re trying to come up with new tools that will allow us to put more of those tools in your toolbox so you are going to be ready to control this important pest,” Rondon said.
Aymeric Goyer, a plant biologist with OSU, reported on results of a research project looking at blackspot bruise susceptibility. The two-year project,
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OSU researchers are conducting several studies to help growers better manage Colorado potato beetles.
OSU entomologist Silvia Rondon grabbed growers’ attention with a warning about the increasing populations of Colorado potato beetles in the Columbia Basin.
Blackspot SusceptibilityBruise
rom pathogens and pests to potato breeding and bruising, the Oregon State University (OSU) Potato Field Day, held June 22 in Hermiston, Oregon, covered a variety of topics as researchers explained their latest trials and shared observations about trends affecting the Columbia Basin potato crop this season.
conducted in collaboration with the University of Idaho and Miller Research, evaluated the effect of vine maturity and nitrogen application rates on blackspot susceptibility.“Whatmotivated this project is we still do not fully understand the factors that contribute to blackspot, and it has led to reoccurring issues with blackspot with a lot of unpredictability and fluctuation from year to year and from field to field and sometimes day to day during the harvest season,” Goyer explained. “We thought it was important to understand whether there were management practices that could be used to decrease blackspot susceptibility.”
“The problem is really expanding. One of the main reasons why the problem is expanding geographically in the Columbia Basin is because, in some instances, we may be facing the beginning of the development of pesticide resistance,” RondonRondonsaid.made it clear that while she is seeing an increasing trend of resistance in the Columbia Basin, Colorado potato beetle populations in the Pacific Northwest are still susceptible to most labeled products. The region is not at the point that has been reached in the eastern part of the U.S. where the beetles have very strong resistance to insecticides with nearly all modes of action.With that, Rondon reviewed management recommendations, reminding growers that carefully rotating insecticidal modes of action is critical to slow the development of resistance. In addition, planting potatoes far from the previous year’s crop where Colorado potato beetles overwinter can make it more difficult for beetles to find a new potato field. And adding chopped straw before plant emergence can reduce infestations since mulching provides a habitat for natural enemies.
Abigail Moore, a graduate student at OSU, (right) presents her research on genomic solutions for potato powdery scab.
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OSU entomologist Silvia Rondon comments on the increasing population of Colorado potato beetles in the Columbia Basin.
Samples of a developmental variety of purple potato are on display for viewing.
Studies in the 1990s showed that vine maturity at the time of vine kill or harvest is one factor related to bruise susceptibility. Specifically, the more mature vines were, the more susceptible potatoes were to bruising. With most of that research done on Russet Burbank, there was a lack of data on newer varieties, Goyer said. In addition to more varieties, the research team also looked at nitrogen management since one way to delay vine maturity – and, in turn, possibly reduce blackspot bruise susceptibility – is to increase seasonal nitrogen applications.
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A field trial in Boardman, Oregon, evaluated rates, sources and application methods of potassium for Clearwater Russet, Umatilla Russet and Russet Burbank. In the past, the agronomy team completed a project focusing on potassium requirements for six main varieties in the region. They found that potassium applications increased the yield of ≥6-ounce tubers at a rate of 200-400 lbs. per acre in Quincy loamy fine sand with the available potassium level ranging from 92 to 170 ppm. However, potassium applications did not impact total yield and marketable yield. Potassium applications tended to decrease specific gravity and improve fry color, especially when the rate was up to 400 lbs. per acre. Potato yields and quality were significantly affected by year
Postdoctoral scholar Shahram Torabian detailed three of OSU’s latest trials on nutrient management practices for potatoes in the Columbia Basin.
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Ken Frost, an OSU plant pathologist, tells growers which diseases to watch out for during the 2022 growing season.
In the end, there was some correlation between vine maturity and blackspot severity; however, it was not consistent between varieties and between years, making vine senescence level not a good indicator of bruise susceptibility. The researchers also found no effect of nitrogen rate on bruise susceptibility.
OSU Ph.D. student Hemant Kardile uses a microscope to show field day attendees how chloroplast counts from stomatal guard cells can be used to determine ploidy in potatoes. The work is part of diploid breeding in potatoes.
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Plots of Russet Burbank, Ranger Russet, Clearwater Russet and Umatilla Russet were grown in Oregon and Idaho. Trial treatments included different vine maturity levels and various nitrogen application rates. Tubers were harvested, put through an impact test and analyzed.
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Two other field trials are ongoing. One aims to optimize the nitrogen application rate and timing for Alturas Russet. The other is designed to improve nitrogen use efficiency with controlled-release nitrogen fertilizers.
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Tiziana Oppedisano, a postdoctoral scholar with OSU, displays a collection of Colorado potato beetles.
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retail, consumer, seed potatoes and market access. Each of these programs works with a specific audience to address constraints unique to each international region and provide education and support to increase the demand for U.S. potatoes.
Retail Marketing Program
ith approximately 20 percent of U.S. potato production going to exports, it is important to focus efforts on expanding international demand for U.S. potatoes and supporting current and potential customers in key markets. Potatoes USA, the marketing organization representing over 2,000 potato farms in the U.S., conducts international marketing programs to promote five main potato products: fresh table-stock potatoes, fresh chipping potatoes, seed potatoes, frozen potato products and dehydrated potato products.
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• Executing promotions in-store and online
• Performing outreach through promotional support and technical training
The international foodservice marketing program targets volume-driving foodservice operators, importers and distributors, as well as culinary students and instructors, to encourage the international foodservice trade to menu more U.S. potatoes. This program works to offset competition in foodservice and increase market share by communicating the benefits of buying and serving U.S. potato products. Marketing activities at the foodservice level include:
Consumer Marketing Program
• Providing menu development activities to inspire chefs
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• Hosting meetings and seminars to discuss expanding retailers’ U.S. potato product offerings
• Developing new recipes
• Using social media to reach and engage with consumers
• Conducting culinary student training events
• Conducting merchandising visits with top retailers in each market
• Attending trade shows and maintaining social media accounts
• Conducting public relations activities and partnering with key opinion leaders
In the international consumer marketing program, consumers are educated and inspired to cook and enjoy more U.S. potatoes. Activities include:
The international marketing program includes 12 of the top regions for U.S. potatoes: Central America, China, the Gulf Cooperation Council, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Myanmar, the Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam. In each of these markets, local representative agencies work with Potatoes USA to develop strategies and conduct marketing activities to get more people to eat more U.S. potatoes in more ways. Marketing activities focus on five programs: foodservice,
By working with retail decision-makers and importers and distributors, the international retail marketing program educates and inspires international retailers to sell more U.S. potatoes. This program helps maximize potato categories throughout the store and online to increase sales long term. Activities in this program include:
• Hosting educational workshops that highlight U.S. potato recipes and nutrition benefits
• Fueling athletes with U.S. potatoes at athletic events
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The seed potato marketing program is focused on Central America and works with international potato growers, importers and government officials to grow potential for U.S. seed potatoes. Marketing activities in the program include:
For more information on the Potatoes USA international marketing programs or to learn how you can get involved with these programs, contact Tiffany Thompson at tiffany@ potatoesusa.com.
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Market access is critical to successfully exporting U.S. potatoes. Potatoes USA supports these efforts in conjunction with Bryant Christie Inc. and the National Potato Council, ensuring that any issues are addressed quickly and effectively. This work is key to making sure U.S. potatoes have meaningful access to international markets.
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• Conducting field trials of various U.S. potato varieties in the markets
Potatoes USA strongly encourages involvement from the U.S. potato industry in these programs. By attending an international trade show, utilizing Potatoes USA’s “Buy U.S.” branding on product packaging or marketing materials, or providing feedback on the direction of Potatoes USA activities, the industry can help work toward the goal of more people eating more U.S. potatoes.
As a global supplier of innovative dormancy and sprout-inhibiting products for the potato storage industry, 1,4Group aims to help the Earth and all its inhabitants grow and thrive for many generations to come. The company’s flagship product 1,4Sight, a proven biocontrol, helps alleviate shoulder bruise and reduce shrink and can be applied shortly after door closure to establish a deepThedormancy.teamat1,4Group is dedicated to the development of new and improved post-harvest chemical applications through continuous improvements of product formulations and integrated supports systems. From the harvest of the crop to delivery at the customer’s dock, growers will find a complete family of complementary treatments that protect the quality and condition of their potatoes.
Agri-Stor Companies offers innovative controls and automation for post-harvest. The Agri-Star Control Panel provides accountability and reporting through the entire farm management chain. This allows for a better strategy for storage by correlating data to performance.
Disinfecting Services specializes in post-harvest applications on stored potatoes, as well as cleaning and disinfecting potato storage and other facilities to meet GAP standards. Disinfecting Services also offers plenum pipe straightening, cleaning and disinfecting humidification system flushes, AC coil washing, piler applicator cleaning, and thermal fogging.
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Disinfecting Services has its own line of post-harvest chemical products. Harvest 6.0 is one of the strongest disinfectants labeled for potatoes and other produce. Bio Ultra is a high-foaming detergent designed to penetrate into heavily contaminated surfaces and break down contaminants from storage walls. Growers’ Shield is a soil treatment that when combined with Harvest 6.0 moves deeper into the surface to disinfect floors. StorGuardian is a floor treatment used to help control diseases. Cell Guard is used to improve airflow by cleaning and maintaining open-air passages in humidification systems, increasing the life of the media.
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Agri-Stor’s condensing units are custom ordered to suit each situation and environment. They are available either with a control that is integrated with the Agri-Star Panel or installed as a separate refrigeration controller. The ability to use controls to intelligently rotate usage of expensive compressors, automate the automated defrost cycle and monitor mechanical failures make Agri-Stor controls indispensable for potato operations.
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IVI’s chemical service application is rooted in years of experience. With evolving market demands – both at home and abroad, for fresh or frozen – IVI is adept at customized plans for growers’ unique needs. IVI offers a comprehensive line of application options and proven solutions to address sprout control, cut black, dormancy and more. IVI welcomes the opportunity to demonstrate its commitment to each customer’s best storage outcome and bottom line.
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Industrial Ventilation Inc. (IVI) offers state-of-the-art ventilation technology and climate control for stored potatoes. Growers turn to IVI from the ground up, from building design services to equipment systems and installation.
Apply Sprout-Stop by ground at the application rate of 1 to 1.33 gallons in a minimum of 30 gallons of water per acre. For aerial applications, apply 1 to 1.33 gallons in a minimum of 10 gallons of water per acre. Sprout-Stop will also control the sprouting of dry bulb onions, dry bulb shallots and garlic.
Sprout-Stop is a pre-harvest, foliar-applied maleic hydrazide (MH) liquid growth retardant designed to inhibit sprouting, resulting in increased storage life, potato quality and marketability. Sprout-Stop uniquely prevents cell division while not impacting the cell’s ability to elongate. This results in the potato plant using its energy for cell growth and expansion, creating more uniform tuber sizes with fewer defects.
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Forte Humidifiers have proven to be a cost-effective solution for achieving ideal humidity levels in potato storages. While being offered at a fraction of the cost of the current market alternatives, Forte Humidifiers produce a superior fog quality and allow for more adaptable installations. In addition, all Forte Humidifiers have been carefully designed and constructed with materials that resist corrosion from water and acids, and thus can double as chemical applicators.
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IVI’s Imperium control panel puts storage control right at growers’ fingertips and includes a handy mobile app. The Imperium features intuitive operation with extensive capabilities including historical data, helping users determine the best parameters for their current storage conditions. IVI service technicians understand prompt response is critical in troubleshooting solutions.
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GroupAg is a full-service post-harvest company. The core of the business services includes potato storage ventilation, refrigeration and post-harvest chemical application. Proprietary application methods are efficient and effective. GroupAg can help create and maintain the ideal conditions to maximize the value of the crop through the storage and shipping processes. GroupAg offers engineering expertise to design and build storage ventilation systems with industry-leading components and can service and maintain any existing system.
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Titan Steel has a combined experience of more than 50 years building straight and arch wall metal buildings. Primarily offering Meridian and Varco Pruden buildings, Titan Steel has the ability to meet the needs of all its customers. With the technology and products offered from both Meridian and Varco Pruden, combined with Titan Steel’s building experience, businesses receive a quality product that will take their storage to the next level for years to come.
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Suberizer Inc. is a second-generation construction company that specializes in designing and manufacturing raw product storage facilities. The company’s goal is to provide clients with a costeffective design that meets expectations for tomorrow’s market. Suberizer’s dedication, knowledge and experience for nearly 50 years set the company apart. Suberizer has been exposed to nearly every spectrum of the potato and onion storage market. Its team addresses everything from start to finish, including project planning, storage and building design, types of construction, civil and structural engineering, ventilation system and air distribution solutions, refrigeration systems and electrical work.
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Deron Beck with the University of Idaho designed the smoke experiment and tested several different types of fuel to keep the smokers pumping.
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Wildfire smoke also affects plants. Smoke cover can modify local environments, creating temperature inversions and increasing diseases that favor cooler and wetter conditions like
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ildfires in the Western U.S. are inevitable. This summer was no exception, as fires burned in all western states and many in the South. Record high temperatures this year and the ongoing mega-drought are not helping things. Dried-out soil and vegetation creates a tinderbox, just waiting for a spark. Mostly human caused, wildfires produce tremendous amounts of smoke, often making its way all the way to the East Coast and even across the Atlantic into Europe. Smoke destroys air quality and is particularly hazardous to those with cardiovascular or respiratory diseases, young children, senior citizens and outdoor workers such as farmers.
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AQI can be pictured as a vertical bar with “zero” (good air quality) at the bottom. At the top is 300, which the EPA considers hazardous air quality, prompting a health emergency.
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late blight. In addition to light-reducing particulates like black and brown carbon, wildfires also produce ozone, one of the most damaging air pollutants for plants. Leaves subjected to high concentrations of ozone can develop spots, known as leaf stippling.
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Wildfire smoke is harmful to humans and plants, but does it also affect potato processing? McCain Foods wants to find out. Addie Waxman, manager of agronomy with the company, noticed quality issues in some French fry varieties in very smoky years and wondered if wildfire smoke was the culprit. Waxman called on Mike Thornton with the University of Idaho, and a two-year study was secured, funded by a specialty crop block grant from the Idaho State Department of Agriculture.
Thornton and his group at the Parma Extension Center in Parma, Idaho, are in the opening stages of a trial that reproduces smoke at extreme levels and pumps it into movable smokehouses they have built onsite. They are blasting three common processing varieties with smoke: Russet Burbank, Clearwater Russet and Alturas. The goal is to find out if some varieties are more sensitive to smoke than others during processing.
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Thornton is blasting 500 PM2.5 worth of smoke on his plants. This is 200 points over the level at which the EPA suggests no one should be doing anything physical outside. This extreme 500-level versus a control group that is only using the air in Parma should see results, even in a heavy smoke year.
Mike Thornton (right) with the University of Idaho speaks to team members gathered to view the smoke experiment. Air quality on this day in July was deemed good.
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After two years, the researchers hope to have enough concrete results to get more funding and do even larger testing. Unless the West gets enough rain and snow to saturate the parched ground and break a historic drought, wildfires will remain a constant threat in summer and fall, making research like this vital to the ag industry.
Par-Fry
The key to this project is not just smoking out the plants, but analyzing the final, processed product. Owen McDougal at Boise State University will test some par-fried (partially fried) French fries in his food chemistry lab and look at some of the chemical qualities
Observers watch as Deron Beck stokes the smoker. Small aquarium pumps help keep the fire stoked in a small drum that uses two commercial smoke generators. A larger pump then pushes smoke upstream to the fields through a PVC pipe, visible at bottom.
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of fries to determine if processing has been affected by the smoke. If it can be determined that one variety holds up better than others, and if a heavy smoke year is predicted, processors will be able to make recommendations to their growers about which varieties to plant to maximize end-product quality.
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About a month after row closure, you notice brown spots on some of the stolons (Photos A and B). Even though the spots are brown, the lesions don’t look like Rhizoctonia. It appears that one of the lesions is breaking open. When you dig a little about 10 days later, you see a warty growth growing out of those brown lesions (Photo C).
During harvest, you pull a nightshade plant growing near the edge of the field and see some of these same structures on the nightshade roots (Photo D)
Can you determine what the problem is with the potatoes in this Disease Quiz?
IDENTIFICATIONDISEASEQUIZ
Dr. Jeff Miller, a plant pathologist, is the president and CEO of Miller Research, Rupert, Idaho. He can be contacted by phone: (208) 531-5124; cell: (208) 431-4420;
jeff@millerresearch.comAnswers Page 25
NorthREPORT American Growers Reduce
SDA reports that U.S. growers planted 910,000 acres to potatoes in 2022. That is 33,000 fewer acres than they planted a year ago, a 3.5 percent decline. Idaho’s acreage reduction (-25,000 acres) accounted for 75.8 percent of the total U.S. decline. Preliminary data from Canada show that growers in that country planted 385,128 acres to potatoes this year. That exceeded the 2021 area by 242 acres, a 0.1 percent increase. The combined North American potato area is 1.295 million acres, down 32,758 acres, or 2.5 percent, from the 2021 crop. Since 2019, Canadian potato acreage has expanded by 6.4 percent, while U.S. potato acreage remains 5.5 percent below 2019 levels. Overall, the total North American potato acreage fell 30,267 acres short of the 2019 crop.
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USDA projects this year’s harvested potato area at 902,200 acres. That is 33,500 acres less than growers harvested in 2021, a 3.6 percent decline. A year ago, U.S. growers abandoned 7,300 acres of potatoes, 0.8 percent of the planted acreage. During the previous five years, abandonment has averaged 1.1 percent of the U.S. potato area.
Some states are reporting excellent crops while others expect yield reductions because of slower crop development. The full impact of the cold, wet spring on the 2022 crop remains to be seen. Considering these factors, North American potato production could end up on either side of trend yield projections.
Frozen processing raw product supplies have been extremely tight as the industry transitions to 2022-crop potatoes. French fry and other frozen
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So far, the western states and provinces have avoided the earlyseason heat wave that lingered through most of the growing season last year. Nevertheless, the last half of July was extremely hot in the Pacific Northwest and Alberta, Canada. Potatoes should be more resilient at that point, but probably have not been unscathed.
The U.S. long-term trend yield is 466 cwt per acre. That is up from the current estimate for last year’s poor yield, 438 cwt per acre. Using the trend yield and projected abandonment, the U.S. would be expected to produce 420.4 million cwt of potatoes during 2022. That would be 10.7 million cwt more than 2021 production, a 2.6 percent increase. It would match 2020 production and fall 4 million cwt, or 0.9 percent short of 2019 production.Canada’s average potato yield has increased by about 3.5 cwt per acre per year for the past 20 years. The trend yield for the 2022 crop is 323 cwt per acre. The current estimate for last year’s crop is 322 cwt per acre. With a trend yield and estimated abandonment, Canada would produce a 121.1 million cwt crop during 2022. That would fall 1.9 million cwt short of 2021 production, a 1.5 percent decline.
Yields, Potential Production
North American potato production could increase despite this year’s overall reduction in acreage. Estimated abandonment and trend yields suggest that North America’s 2022 potato crop could total 541.5 million cwt. That would exceed 2021 production by 9 million cwt or 1.7 percent. It also would be 1.3
Canadian growers abandoned only 2,974 acres of potatoes during 2021, mostly due to adverse harvest conditions. That was 0.8 percent of all potatoes
Because there have already been several reports of abandonment, due to heavy rainfall this spring, we have increased our estimate of Canadian abandonment to 2.5 percent. Canada’s 2022 harvested area would be 375,500. Based on these harvested acreage estimates, the combined North American 2022 harvested acreage would be 1,277,700 acres, a 3 percent reduction from 2021 levels.
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Supply and Demand Issues
Abandonment
Planting and crop development got off to a slow start in nearly all the major growing regions this spring. Cold, wet weather made planting difficult and has delayed crop development. Heavy spring rainfall has caused some damage in low-lying areas. Though crops were planted later than usual, many areas have experienced nearly ideal growing conditions through July, which has allowed crops to catch up a little. Moisture conditions have improved from last year in the Red River Valley and in the Prairie Provinces.
planted. In 2020, abandonment totaled 4,266 acres, or 1.2 percent of the crop. Abandonment during 2018 and 2019 was 5.2 percent and 5.6 percent, respectively. Before those years, abandonment has averaged 1.4 percent of the planted area.
million cwt or 0.2 percent more than the five-year average production for the U.S. and Canada combined. Using trendline yields and average abandonment is a good place to start estimating total production. It only takes average growing conditions to produce a trendline yield. However, there are many other factors that can and will impact production between the time I write this article and the time you sit down to read it. A lot can happen before the harvest is complete.
product sales have been strong, despite significant finished product price increases. Contract volumes are up from 2021 in the major processing states and provinces. Alberta and Manitoba planted 5,350 more acres to potatoes this year. On the other hand, total acreage for Washington, Idaho and North Dakota is down 23,000 acres from last year.
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Unless yields are significantly reduced, Canadian fryers should have sufficient raw product from the 2022 crop to utilize their processing capacity. In contrast, U.S. fryers have the capacity to run more product than they have under contract. Yields have been reduced on earlyharvested varieties due to cold spring weather. Yields are likely to improve for later frozen processing potatoes. Nevertheless, fryers may need to pick up open market potatoes if French fry demand remains strong.
• Processors may need to compete with table potato interests for Russet Burbank potatoes if demand for French fries remains strong.
• Russet table potato production is unlikely to increase this year because of acreage cuts in key russet growing areas.
Russet table potato production is unlikely to increase this year. Idaho and Wisconsin both planted fewer russet table potatoes than they planted in 2021. The Columbia Basin and the Klamath Basin also experienced acreage cuts. If yields in the major production areas meet trend levels, the industry could produce an adequate supply of russets. However, the cold, wet spring might put a damper on yields. In addition, fryers and dehydrators may need to purchase potatoes intended for other market channels. This could tighten russet table supplies significantly.
By Ben Eborn, Publisher, North AmericanMarketPotatoNews
• The 2022 North American potato crop could fall short of long-term trend yields due to the cold, wet spring, which delayed planting and crop development.
In the past, potato demand has been relatively stable. Shifting supply typically has been the primary factor driving potato prices. Inflation and the economic recession are likely to impact the market sectors differently. The size of this year’s potato crop and additional influences on demand are certain to cause supply and demand challenges and opportunities for the 2022 potato crop.
• Potato production could exceed 2021 production, despite a 2.5 percent reduction in acreage.
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Bob Bender will stay on board with the company as chief executive officer until 2023, at which time he will remain on the board of directors. He will also oversee special projects in addition to beginning an advisory role.
INTHE NEWS
Tong manufactures vegetable handling equipment for a range of vegetables including carrots, onions and potatoes.
OSU HARECMovesEntomologistFromtoOIPMC
Mark Hammer is the new chair of the Washington State Potato Commission (WSPC). He will lead the commission through June 30, 2023. Hammer has served in various roles with the WSPC including chair of the Marketing and Industry Affairs Committee, as well as a member of the Government Affairs Committee and the Executive Committee.Hammergrows spuds in Pasco, Washington.
Tong Engineering Builds New Facility
The new facility, made up of three buildings, occupies a 7-acre site. It replaces the company’s former facility, located in the same town, which it utilized for almost 90 years.
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Vegetable equipment manufacturer Tong Engineering has opened its new manufacturing facility in England after a three-year, two-phase construction project. The 90,000-square-foot factory includes new shot-blast, paint-spraying and powder-coating facilities, as well as high-speed fiber laser-cutting facilities to cut mild and stainless steel. In addition, the factory houses metal-preparation, fabrication and final-assembly departments, plus an area to store over 40 tons of spare parts and components.
Next Generation Takes Helm at Tasteful Selections
Nathan Bender has taken over for his father, Bob Bender, as president of baby potato operation Tasteful Selections. The younger Bender has a bachelor’s degree in agribusiness from the University of Nebraska and has been working at the company since 2007. He has been serving as chief operating officer since January 2019 and previously worked as plant manager, director of plant operations and vice president of plant operations. He will be transitioning to have full oversight of Tasteful Selections’ day-to-day activities.
Oregon State University (OSU) entomologist Silvia Rondon will now be focusing fulltime on her role as director of OSU’s IntegratedOregonPest Management Center (OIPMC). Rondon has been filling that role while also serving as interim director of the OSU Hermiston Agricultural Research and Extension Center (HAREC) for the last year. She worked as the extension entomology specialist at HAREC for 17 years.
PomaFresh has also introduced a new potato chip color inspection station for potato chip processors. The new machine uses spectral technology to compare potato chip color to established standards.
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Once the powdery scab organism is in a field, the spore balls can remain viable for over 10 years. Recent research has shown that spore balls can also be transported in blowing dust in the wind.
NEW CALENDARPRODUCTS KNOW YOUR DISEASE ANSWERS (FROM PAGE 21)
Powdery scab is very difficult to control. No fungicides provide control of the disease. Recommendations for management include planting disease-free seed, avoiding planting in poorly drained soils, avoiding manure as fertilizer if cows have been fed infected tubers, utilizing long rotations, planting resistant cultivars and avoiding excessive irrigation. Unfortunately, many of these options are not practical.
A new inspection roller conveyor from PomaFresh provides packers with digital cameras and displays that allow for rapid inspection of potato lots for pressure bruises and diseases. The conveyor features a large viewing screen that enhances defects for rapid removal of suspect produce. The new table is made to be ideal for potato seed lot inspections and quality control of shipments with documentation.digital
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Photos A-D show symptoms of powdery scab. Powdery scab is caused by Spongospora subterranean f. sp. subterranea. This organism is not a true fungus, but is more closely related to protozoa. However, pathologists often group it with the fungi or call it “fungal-like.” Photo E is a spore ball of the pathogen as seen under a light microscope, and it can survive in the soil for many years.
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The reductions in yield and quality last year were very extreme, as you would expect for that type of a record-setting summer. This year, the heat hit at the usual two-week peak
Last summer, growers in the Columbia Basin were dealing with recordshattering heat not only in June, but through the remainder of the harvest. That heat dome that was considered to be a one-in-100-year event caused some well-documented reductions in yield and quality.Theheat of last year was followed this year by one of the coolest springs on record. There were no extremes that often occur for a week or two to pull down the overall average, but rather a steady, consistent temperature below the historical average. On top of that, we had more cloudy days and intermittent rain that was very welcome by some farmers, but the clouds blocked the radiant heat from warming the soil and slowed photosynthesis in the plants. As a result, the crop through the end of May was at least two weeks behind normal.
Talk about a roller coaster of weather that growers have been dealing with over the past 15 months!
In the back of my mind, I kept thinking about the old adage that Mother Nature always has a way to bring crops back to normal. The early crop harvest was coming in 15-25 percent below average in yield as those fields simply did not have enough time to catch up as the processors needed those acres to fill a very empty pipeline. However, I believed the full-season varieties would be far enough above average to pull the entire crop up to being 4 percent to maybe even 5 percent above average,Unfortunately,overall.
How Quickly Things Change
The other roller coaster that growers are riding is the skyrocketing cost of production. It is one thing to absorb a 40 percent or more increase in the cost of production over three crop years. But to do so when two of those three years are impacted by weather that has reduced both yield and quality is another. It is no secret that the key to profitability with potato contracts, even in stable times, is to get either above average yield or quality. If you can achieve both, you have hit a homerun. Coming up short when costs are going up is very painful. Yes, contracts had a very significant price increase in 2022, but the costs increased so much that with even average yield and quality, the contract should only just cover the added cost and not replenish any bank accounts that were drained last year. Those growers who will suffer the yield and/or quality hits from this summer’s surprise heat wave will be hurt even further.
I hope everyone has a very safe harvest season and that yields and quality turn out to be better than I fear they will be as I write this column. The industry needs a very profitable year for all segments, especially the growers.
we all know now that the long-range forecasts weren’t worth the paper they were written on. As record high temperatures bore down on the crop by the end of July, the potential for a great full-season crop evaporated like a pan of water on a 100 degree day. I still believe the potential is there for a very good crop and that some fields will be record setters. However, there will be others that are impacted by the heat more and will have reduced yields and some quality issues due to the stress the plants are now under.
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in temperatures of the last week of July and the first week of August. Therefore, I do not foresee the size issue being as great this year, but I do expect a few more internals and most likely more rot. Either way, it will be very costly to growers.
Then along comes June with nearly perfect potato growing weather. Not too hot and very cool nights saw much of the late-season crop accelerate its growth to almost daily gain back a little of the development that had been delayed. The longrange forecast up until the middle of July was calling for very moderate temperatures throughout the entire summer. Many people, including me, were forecasting that this would create the potential for the best full-season variety potato crop in recent memory, if not ever.
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