The disease, called “rubbery rot,” was seen in North Dakota and Minnesota this summer and was found in Wisconsin in 2019, said Gary Secor, North Dakota State University Extension plant pathologist.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The price of potatoes may soon be on the rise, thanks to a disease killing large amounts of the crop in Michigan. Michigan is one of the nation’s highest producers of ...

Penn State researchers collect suspect plants from a potato field. The samples will be studied further in their laboratory. (Courtesy of Robert E. Leiby) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South ...

Your favorite potato chip might be at risk, as new potato diseases have been identified in Pennsylvania. Several species of bacteria that had not been seen before in the state, as well as one that had ...

University of Idaho Extension has published a new bulletin to help potato farmers recognize the symptoms of bacterial rot and protect their operations from the devastating crop disease. Idaho hasn’t ...

A North Dakota potato breeder brings in a speaker from Wyoming who has trained a dog to detect potato virus diseases using their nose. Andrea Parish of Dayton, Wyoming, sniffs bags of potato seed ...

If you try to order seed potatoes and find the company cannot ship potatoes to Nebraska; try another company or plan to purchase locally. The reason the company cannot ship to Nebraska is likely based ...

If you’ve been into a fish and chip shop in the last twelve months, you may well have seen a notice tacked to the wall about the impact of the potato shortage. Supermarkets, too, slapped temporary ...

The College of Agricultural and Life Sciences Seed Potato Certification Program finalized a public-private partnership this January. The Wisconsin Potato Coalition will take over management of the ...

Penn State researchers collect suspect plants from a potato field. The samples will be studied further in their laboratory. Michael Brooks has been farming in South Jersey his whole life. He grows ...