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2016 Pacific Northwest 'Tri-State' Potato Selection Tour This year's tour dates are Aberdeen, ID - 12 Hill - September 14^th Aberdeen, ID - Single hills - September 27^th - 29^th Hermiston, OR - Single hills - October 4^th Klamath Falls, OR - Single hills - October 5^th - 7^th (PDF) Click here for contact information and where to stay. Single Hill Selection to Begin at Aberdeen on Wednesday, September 28^th We dug after lunch (Tuesday 27^th)and it looks as though we can keep going with the digging of single hills ….. warmer day temperatures have helped with drying out of the soil. We’ll keep digging this afternoon to lay some out additional prior to tomorrow morning. The first single hill families we’ll be selecting among tomorrow will be specialties, then we’ll head into russets (early and full-season) after that. We’ll plan on meeting at Aberdeen at 8:00 AM tomorrow (Wednesday) and will head out to the fields at 8:30. If too short of notice to attend tomorrow, you are welcome to come on Thursday and/or Friday as well. Please RSVP to me if you believe you will be able to make it this week—looking forward to seeing you if your harvest schedules allow. Thanks. Rich (PDF) Previous Bulletin	Clearwater Russet (AOA95154-1)/h2> Mini-tuber Orders for 2018 Jenny Durrin at the Nuclear Seed Potato Lab at the University of Idaho is starting to multiply tissue culture plantlets for the next greenhouse crop which will be available Spring 2018. Mid-December is the deadline if you are interested in ordering any long dormancy varieties such as Teton Russet, Alpine Russet or others. Long Dormancy lines are starred* and in bold below- Due to limited greenhouse space, shorter dormancy varieties should also be ordered at this time. Deadline is early February. (PDF) See the list of available varieties.
Blazer Russet and Clearwater Russet are now accepted by McDonald's for "golden standard." Read the press release: McDonald's Gilroy Garlic Fries Officially Launch at McDonald's Restaurants Throughout Greater Bay Area Today PVMI Varieties have had their Fingerprints taken!! Dr. Vidyasagar (Sagar) Sathuvalli, Assistant Professor Potato Breeding and Genetics with his colleagues at Hermiston Agricultural Research and Extension Center (HAREC), Oregon State University, have established the SSR Fingerprints for the PVMI varieties as well as for some other common lines. These are now available. (PDF) The fingerprinted varieties! For more information, contact: Sagar on 541 567 6337 or email: vidyasas@hort.oregonstate.edu Change of Address Please note that with immediate effect the address for all payments to PVMI will be: PVMI, Inc., 60380 Chickasaw Way, Bend, OR, 97702, United States of America 2015 Royalty Form Available For Download Go to the list of Documents and Agreements... » Mini-tuber Orders for 2017 Lorie Ewing at the Potato Lab at the University of Idaho is starting to multiply tissue culture plantlets for the next greenhouse crop which will be available in 2017. Mid – December is the deadline if you are interested in ordering any long dormancy varieties such as Teton Russet, Alpine Russet, Payette Russet or others. Due to limited greenhouse space, shorter dormancy varieties should also be ordered at this time, deadline is early February. (PDF) Available PVMI Clones Contact: Lorie Ewing on 208 885 6663 or email: lewing@uidaho.edu Tri-State Brochure A new brochure about the TriState Research and Breeding Program is now available. Click here to download a (PDF) Contact jeannedebons@msn.com for paper copies. Variety News Download the 2015 Summer issue of Variety News, the annual newsletter from the Potato Variety Management Institute, or Previous PVMI Newsletters Read More... » Oregon Seed Growers Information The Oregon Seed Potato Growers contact list is now posted on the OSCS Web page at http://seedcert.oregonstate.edu/potatoes. Gems versus Gold Yukon Gem gets high marks in North Dakota when it is compared with Yukon Gold. Read More in NDSU's Yard & Garden Report... » Potato Virus Y Information At potatovirus.com you will find information related to PVY strains, variety-strain interactions in tubers and leaves, and an excellent collection of photographs showing PVY symptoms under a variety of conditions in selected varieties. A ‘Discussion Forum ?is available for specific questions and can be posed to a variety of experts in this field.	New Website and Refurbished Research Library Database at www.nwpotatoresearch.com Since 2012 the Washington, Idaho, and Oregon potato commissions have cooperated in research funding and management, and have called this cooperative venture the Northwest Potato Research Consortium. The Consortium has been represented on the Web by www.nwpotatoresearch.com, which included the ‘research library’ developed by the WSPC in the 2000s. Recently, a long-awaited redesign and reprogramming of the website was completed and is now live online. For those of you with research library passwords, your old login will work on the new site. For those without a login and password, there is a user-friendly means to request a password. I encourage everyone to have a look, and of course offer feedback anytime! Andy Jensen, Consortium Manager. New Management Guidelines Management Guidelines have been release for Mountain Gem Russet and Targhee Russet . . . go to the Varieties page. Payette Russet Storage Check out the recently released Payette Russet Storage Bulletin. (PDF) Bulletin CIS 1220 Your Storage Solution! (PDF) Click here for more details. Results from National Fry Processing Trial The National Fry Processing Trial (NFPT) is a multi-year and multi-location national effort that aims at identifying new potato varieties with low acrylamide forming potential while maintaining or exceeding the agronomic quality and consumer acceptance found in current varieties. Read More... » Zebra Chip (ZC) Essential information about Zebra Chip (ZC) in the Columbia Basin: Identification, Late Season Control, and Storage Read More... » New Tri-State Russets Comparison A Multi year review by Washington State University of several new Tri-State lines shows impressive yields when compared to traditional russets. Read More... » Potatoes and Diabetes Researchers at Montana State University have found that several varieties of potatoes could foil type 2 diabetes. Among them is Huckleberry gold. Read the entire article. (PDF) The Prairie Star, February 5, 2016 Tri-States Specialty Review USDA reviews Tri-State Specialty Potatoes AmaRosa, Purple Fiesta and TerraRosa Click here, to link to the report
The TriState Selection Tour	Klamath Falls, October 7^th & 8^th, 2015