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& Ag Expo
January 19-21, 2021
• A VIRTUAL EVENT •
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Contents: Welcome to the 2021
Idaho Potato Conference
Welcome............................ 2
Highlighted Programs......... 3 This is the 53rd annual Idaho Potato Conference
and 42nd annual Eastern Idaho Ag Expo. Unusual
Invited Speakers................ 4 times call for unusual responses, so we decided to
Schedule......................... 6-7 hold this event in a virtual format this year due to
restrictions on gatherings that are in place because
CCA/ISDA credits............... 7 of the COVID-19 situation. We are keeping some
Sesiones en Español......... 8 of the touches attendees are used to, such as
presentations spread over several days during
List of Exhibitors................. 9 the 3rd week of January. The biggest change you
Survey QR Code.............. 10 will notice is that all presentations are limited to
20 minutes and have been pre-recorded. Each
Show Sponsors................ 11 presentation will be followed by a 5-minute live
question and answer session so you can interact
directly with industry experts. In addition, we have
2021 Idaho Potato Conference included several short updates by leading potato
Planning Committee: industry companies each day.
Nora Olsen, University of Idaho, Co-Chair
The Spanish Language Session will also be offered
Joseph Sagers, University of Idaho, Co-Chair
virtually for 2021. This session will be held from
Mike Thornton, University of Idaho, Co-Chair
1 to 3 pm on January 19th. There will be short
Travis Blacker, Idaho Potato Commission
videos and live discussions on several topics led
Ian Crawford, Simplot
by University of Idaho extension educators Joseph
Drew Glascock, Lamb Weston
Sagers and Jason Thomas.
Pam Hutchinson, University of Idaho
Nate McBride, Mart Produce Highlights for this year’s three-day virtual
Jeff Miller, Miller Research conference include:
Trent Munden, CSS Farms ▶ Dr. Paul Bethke from USDA-ARS in
Jason Thomas, University of Idaho Wisconsin to discuss “Tuber lenticels”— what
James Woodhall, University of Idaho is their function and why do they become
enlarged?
▶ Dr. Andy Robinson from North Dakota
University/University of Minnesota – to
elaborate on the seasonal topic of “Managing
brown center and hollow heart”
▶ Dr. Ken Frost from Oregon State University
will provide a much-needed summary on the
“Blackleg/soft rot disease in potatoes”
▶ Dr. Mark Pavek from Washington State
University will provide “Cultural management
updates on Clearwater Russet and Alturas”
and his graduate student Francisco Gonzalez
will provide new (and old) information on
“Measuring soil moisture in potato fields”
• The remainder of the presentations will focus
on a wide variety of topics, such as bruising
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Highlighted Programs
and quality, new varieties, growth regulators,
and managing diseases such as PVY, PVMT,
Zebra Chip, early die, pink rot and Pythium
leak. There will also be sessions on weed
management and volunteer potato control, soil
health, potato sustainability and Idaho Potato
Commission programs. We hope everyone will
be able to find something of interest to start off
For the last five years, a transdisciplinary team
2021 on a good note!
of researchers including nematologists, plant
Please note that Idaho Pesticide License breeders, extension specialists, and economists
Recertification credits will be available on January from Idaho, New York, Oregon, Canada, UK,
20th. Attendees are required by ISDA to pass a and France tackled the ongoing threat of potato
short on-line quiz to receive credits. cyst nematodes (PCN) to U.S. potato production
through a USDA-NIFA award. This collaborative
effort, known as the Globodera Alliance or
GLOBAL, developed germplasm resistant to potato
cyst nematodes, used DSSAT to predict yield
loss by PCN, and used genomics to characterize
PCN virulence. More information is available
on the GLOBAL website: www.globodera.org
or by contacting Project Directors Louise-Marie
Dandurand, lmd@uidaho.edu or Inga Zasada,
Inga.zasada@usda.gov.
The Potato Soil Health Project was established to
address two related issues with soil health in potato
cropping systems across the U.S.: (1) despite the
frequent use of fumigation in most farms, pressure
from soil-borne diseases is increasing over time,
and (2) at the same time, soil productivity is
PMTV and other viruses: Potato mop-top virus declining. Our overall objectives are to determine
(PMTV) is a newly emerged virus transmitted how best to measure soil health in potato
through soil and inducing tuber necrotic symptoms cropping systems, identify the tools (cover crops,
in potato. This virus as well as its protist vector are soil amendments, rotation schemes) that best
the targets of the newly awarded USDA-NIFA grant enhance both soil health and tuber production, and
on management of tuber necrotic viruses, which communicate our findings to potato growers. More
includes PMTV and PVY. information can be found at https://potatosoilhealth.
cfans.umn.edu/.
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2021 Idaho Potato Conference Invited Speakers
Paul Bethke Francisco
Gonzalez
Paul Bethke has been
a researcher with Francisco Gonzalez
the USDA Vegetable is a graduate student
Crops Research Unit at Washington State
and a faculty member University located in
in the Department Pullman, WA. He is
of Horticulture at the pursuing a Ph.D. with
University of Wisconsin the Department of
since 2006. His Horticulture, under the
research is focused on supervision of Dr. Mark
how genetics and the Pavek. The focus of
environment influence his research has been
potato tuber quality, on potato late-season
especially as it relates to quality out of storage. deficit irrigation and
His group is currently working on projects related evapotranspiration. He is scheduled to graduate in
to diploid potatoes, the appearance of red skinned the spring.
potatoes, the formation and consequences of
lenticels, aerial imaging, and stem-end chip defect.
Ken Frost Mark Pavek
Ken Frost is a plant Mark Pavek is a
pathologist whose Professor in the
research focuses on the Department of
ecology, epidemiology, Horticulture at
and management of Washington State
pathogens that cause University in Pullman,
diseases of irrigated WA. Dr. Pavek has been
vegetable crops. He the State Extension
received his Ph.D. Potato Specialist since 2004 and conducts
in Plant Pathology applied agronomic and variety development
from the University research. He uses his research results to provide
of Wisconsin, Madison in 2012 and joined the outreach to the local industry, aiding in their potato
Department of Botany and Plant Pathology at production and marketing. Dr. Pavek has extensive
Oregon State University in 2015. His research farming experience and has worked for large ag
and extension program is based at the Hermiston corporations. He was born and raised in American
Agricultural Research and Extension Center in Falls, ID and attended the University of Idaho
Hermiston, OR. His current research interests (BS and MS degrees) and received his PhD from
include disease diagnosis and management, Washington State University. Dr. Pavek currently
insect-vectored disease management, and serves the potato industry and research community
understanding how crop rotation influences through his role as the President of The Potato
pathogen biology, soil microbes, and crop health. Association of America. He enjoys spending his off-
time with his wife Pamela and their family, friends
and Labrador retrievers.
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2021 Idaho Potato Conference Invited Speakers
Jolyn Andy Robinson,
Rasmussen PhD
Jolyn is a Senior Andy Robinson is an
Manager for Raw Associate Professor and
Development & the Potato Extension
Sustainability, J.R. Agronomist at North
Simplot and Vice Dakota State University
Chair of the Potato and the University of
Sustainability Alliance Minnesota. Robinson,
(PSA). She grew up an Idaho native, grew up
on her family’s dairy farming in Parma, ID with
farm near Markesan, his family. He received
Wisconsin. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Brigham Young University
a B.S. degree from the University of Wisconsin and his master and doctorate degrees from Purdue
- Madison in Agronomy and Dairy Science, University.
and an M.S. in Horticulture. Jolyn’s experience
includes crop advising, vegetable processing Robinson’s research and Extension goals are to
field representative for Del Monte, and research develop science-based solutions to address real-
supervisor at UW’s Hancock Agricultural Research world problems in potato production, enabling
Station. Jolyn joined J.R. Simplot in 2011, where producers to increase economic and environmental
she has held positions in biotech agronomy sustainability through improved crop management.
research, raw development, and sustainability. Potato producers throughout the world can follow
Dr. Robinson at the NDSU / U of M Potato Extension
website (z.umn.edu/spud), Twitter (@spudology) and
Instagram (@spudology) accounts.
His passion is potatoes. Robinson contributes
regularly to the Valley Potato Grower writing “Andy’s
Advice” and enjoys working with potato farmer
throughout the world.
Save the date! Next year’s Idaho Potato
Conference is Jan 19 & 20, 2022
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2021 Idaho Potato Conference Schedule
Sponsored by:
Tuesday, January 19: (CCA Credits available)
8:00 – 8:25 am Changes in potato quality during packing and shipping – Mike Thornton
(miket@uidaho.edu)
8:25 – 8:50 am Factors that impact development of bruises – Nora Olsen (norao@uidaho.edu)
8:50 – 9:15 am Tuber lenticels – Paul Bethke (paul.bethke@ars.usda.gov)
9:15 – 9:40 am Economic Implications of Retailer Rejections of Fresh Potatoes Due to Quality
Issues – Patrick Hatzenbuehler (phatzenbuehler@uidaho.edu)
9:40 – 10 am Break
10:00 – 10:25 am What makes new varieties better than Burbank? – Rhett Spear
(rhetts@uidaho.edu)
10:25 – 10:50 am Susceptibility of russet cultivars to common potato diseases– Jeff Miller
(jeff@millerresearch.com)
10:50 – 11:15 am Managing brown center and hollow heart – Andy Robinson
(andrew.p.robinson@ndsu.edu)
11:15 – 11:40 am Learning to use growth regulators – Mike Thornton (miket@uidaho.edu)
11:40 – 12:00 pm Company Updates
Sponsored by:
Wednesday, January 20: (ISDA Pesticide and CCA Credits available)
8:00 – 8:25 am Managing early die in potatoes – Phill Wharton (pwharton@uidaho.edu)
8:25 – 8:50 am Best management practices for pink rot and Pythium leak – Jeff Miller
(jeff@millerresearch.com)
8:50 – 9:15 am Soil-borne diseases – what causes them and what you can do about it – James
Woodhall (jwoodhall@uidaho.edu)
9:15 – 9:40 am PMTV and other viruses – Alex Karasev (akarasev@uidaho.edu)
9:40 – 10 am Break
10:00 – 10:25 am Diagnosing and predicting foliar diseases in Idaho – James Woodhall
(jwoodhall@uidaho.edu)
10:25 – 10:50 am What happened to Zebra Chip in ID? – Erik Wenninger (erikw@uidaho.edu)
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10:50 – 11:15 am Variety reaction to Zebra Chip and interaction with PVY – Arash Rashed
(arashed@uidaho.edu)
11:15 – 11:40 am Blackleg/Soft rot diseases in potato –Ken Frost (kenneth.frost@oregonstate.edu)
11:40 – 12:00 pm Company Updates
Thursday, January 21: (CCA Credits available)
8:00 – 8:25 am Volunteer potato control – Pam Hutchinson (phutch@uidaho.edu)
8:25 – 8:50 am Using plant-pest interactions to build resistance – Louise-Marie Dandurand
(lmd@uidaho.edu)
8:50 – 9:15 am Measuring soil moisture in potato fields – Francisco Gonzalez
(francisco.gonzalez@wsu.edu), Zach Holden, Mark Pavek
9:15 – 9:40 am Weed control options – Pam Hutchinson (phutch@uidaho.edu)
9:40 – 10 am Break
10:00 – 10:25 am Cultural management updates on Clearwater Russet and Alturas – Mark Pavek
(mjpavek@wsu.edu), Francisco Gonzalez, Zach Holden
10:25 – 10:50 am What does healthy soil look like in Southern Idaho? – Linda Schott
(lschott@uidaho.edu)
10:50 – 11:15 am Sustainability and the potato industry: working together to meet customer and
consumer demands – Jolyn Rasmussen (jolyn.rasmussen@simplot.com)
11:15 – 11:40 am Idaho Potato Commission update – Frank Muir (frank.muir@potato.idaho.gov)
11:40 – 12:00 pm Company Updates
**All times listed in MST
CCA (CEU) and ISDA Pesticide Recertification Credits are available for
registered attendees
CCA credits are available on all three days of the conference. Available credits are outlined below:
• Tuesday – 3.5 Crop Management
• Wednesday – 3.5 Integrated Pest Management
• Thursday – 1 Soil and Water, 1 Integrated Pest Management, 1 Crop Management, 0.5 Sustainability
Watch for QR codes displayed on the screen throughout the sessions. Scan them with your smartphone,
and credits will automatically be applied. If you have difficulty with this process, please send your name and
CCA license number via email to Kristy Mayer, conference registrar (kristym@uidaho.edu).
ISDA credits are available on Wednesday, January 20. In order to receive the three (3) credits available,
you must be registered for the conference, and you must participate in a real-time online quiz during the
proceedings. If you have difficulty with this process, please contact Kristy Mayer, conference registrar
(kristym@uidaho.edu).
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2021 Spanish Lanuage Sessions
Spanish Language Session will also be offered virtually for 2021. This session will be offered from
1-3 p.m. on January 19. Topics in Spanish will include reducing bruise, grading potatoes, common
storage disease and much more. There will be short videos and live discussions led by University of Idaho
Extension educators Joseph Sagers and Jason Thomas.
Spanish Language Session • Tuesday January 19, 2021 • 1-3 pm
1:00-1:20 pm Reducing Bruise – Mike Thornton and Joseph Sagers
1:20-1:40 pm Common Storage Diseases – Jeff Miller, Nora Olsen, Jason Thomas
1:40-2:00 pm Grading Potatoes- Jeff Miller, Joseph Sagers
2:00-2:20 pm Entomopathogenic nematodes (EPN) for the control of insect pests - Karin Cruzado
Gutierrez
2:20-2:40 pm The Importance of Certified Seed from Lab to Field - Arturo Quintero Ferrer
•
La sesión en español también se ofrecerá virtualmente para el 2021. Esta sesión se ofrecerá de
1 a 3 p.m. el 19 de enero. Los temas en español incluirán la reducción de moretones, clasificación de
papas, enfermedades comunes de almacenamiento y mucho más. Habrá videos cortos y discusiones en
vivo dirigidas por los educadores de Extensión de la Universidad de Idaho Joseph Sagers, Jason Thomas,
y mas.
Agenda de la Sesión en Español • Martes 19 Enero 2021 • 1-3 pm
1:00-1:20 pm Reducción de moretones – Mike Thornton y Joseph Sagers
1:20-1:40 pm Enfermedades comunes de almacenamiento – Jeff Miller, Nora Olsen, Jason Thomas
1:40-2:00 pm Clasificación de papas- Jeff Miller, Joseph Sagers
2:00-2:20 pm Nemátodos entomopatógenos (NEP) en el control de insectos plagas - Karin
Cruzado Gutiérrez
2:20-2:40 pm Del Laboratorio al Campo, la importancia de la semilla certificada - Arturo Quintero
Ferrer
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