Michigan farmers can now test their seed potatoes for disease in-state, eliminating the need to ship samples to North Dakota ...

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.

The Michigan Department of Agriculture gained a new way to make it easier for farmers to grow and sell potatoes.

Thirteen years after Rio Grande Valley farmer Jack Wallace got the fateful call from Frito-Lay, Zebra Chip — the disease that has since blotched potatoes as far away as New Zealand — appears to be ...

North Dakota and western Minnesota potato growers have an improved tool to fight a dangerous crop disease. The North Dakota Agricultural Weather Network, or NDAWN, has launched its Potato Blight app ...

ABERDEEN — Ongoing studies at the University of Idaho's Aberdeen Research & Extension Center seek to help seed potato growers avoid a chronically troublesome disease spread by aphids, called potato ...

POCATELLO, Idaho (AP) — Researchers in Idaho have found a way to use drones to detect diseased potato plants. Led by Idaho State University assistant geosciences professor Donna Delparte, researchers ...

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 ...