Research by Jeff Miller and other scientists is providing potato growers with more tools to use in controlling pink rot. The soil-borne disease is caused mainly by the pathogen Phytophthora ...

FARGO, N.D. — A research alliance between North Dakota State University plant pathologists and the R.D. Offutt Farms of Fargo has worked for 25 years, helping to solve potato disease issues worldwide.

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.

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Wet soil conditions and very high disease levels pose the biggest risk to crops, with wet rots likely to cause most storage headaches this season. Growers will have to be vigilant for tuber blight, ...

Potato growers on P.E.I. are concerned that some of their crops might be lost because of the wet weather. Willem van Nieuwenhuyzen's potato field at Vanco Farms is completely saturated with water ...

DR. G. H. PETHYBRIDGE, economic botanist to the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for Ireland, has recently published two papers, of considerable scientific as well as economic ...