Links

10/26/04 - Gordon Van Wyk called Monday from Hermiston to say the Oregon State link didn't work, and it didn't, I had their old orst.edu address in there. That one is fixed. Mark Ochoa sent me the AgriMet and WSU addresses from the Othello office last week and Ted Lindquist asked for Montana State, so those are new.

Universities and Research

• University of Idaho - www.uidaho.edu - Aberdeen and Kimberly R&E Centers. Kimberly is the storage research. The U of I Potato Conference is in Pocatello every January.
• Washington State University - www.wsu.edu - Prosser and Othello
• Oregon State University - oregonstate.edu - Hermiston, and Klamath Falls for the Tulelake and Merrill growers
• Montana State University - www.montana.edu - seed potato certification is in Bozeman
• Colorado State University - www.colostate.edu - San Luis Valley Research Center at Center
• University of Nebraska-Lincoln - www.unl.edu - potato research is at the Panhandle R&E Center in Scottsbluff
• Potato Association of America - www.potatoassociation.org - American Journal of Potato Research

USDA

• NASS - www.nass.usda.gov - acreage, production, Potato Stocks. The reports are PDF files so you need Adobe Reader.
• Market News - www.ams.usda.gov - go to Fruit and Vegetable. Shipping point reports by district (Upper Valley and Twin Falls-Burley, Columbia Basin, Klamath Basin, San Luis Valley)
• Risk Management Agency - www.rma.usda.gov - crop insurance

State Departments of Agriculture

• Idaho - www.agri.state.id.us - pesticide license and recert seminars
• Washington - agr.wa.gov - same. Our Dec. 7 workshop in Moses Lake isn't on their list yet, the 2 credits haven't been approved.
• Nebraska - www.agr.state.ne.us - pesticide licenses

Commissions and National Groups

• Idaho Potato Commission - www.idahopotato.com - Idaho assessment and grade rules
• Washington State Potato Commission - www.potatoes.com - Moses Lake
• National Potato Council - www.nationalpotatocouncil.org - Washington D.C., Potato Statistical Yearbook
• U.S. Potato Board - www.uspotatoes.com - Denver

Weather and Water

• National Weather Service - www.wrh.noaa.gov - click Pocatello, Spokane, Pendleton or Medford on the map
• NRCS Snow Survey - www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov - SNOTEL, and the water supply outlooks monthly Jan. to June
• AgriMet - www.usbr.gov/pn/agrimet - daily crop water use for potatoes by weather station
• Idaho Dept. of Water Resources - www.idwr.state.id.us - water rights, well permits, Snake River Basin Adjudication

Magazines

• Potato Grower - www.potatogrower.com - Idaho Falls, monthly
• Spudman - www.spudman.com - out of Sparta, Mich.
• Capital Press - www.capitalpress.com - weekly farm paper out of Salem, Ore.

Asked For

Shirley Bidegaray called from Ashton on the 21st about the Idaho Crop Improvement Association for the seed growers. I haven't found a web address for them yet. Paul Gonzales in Monte Vista is getting me a page for the San Luis Valley Research Center, for now that line goes to the Colorado State main page. Dennis Moe asked about putting the dealers' sites on here and Dale said no, dealers can run an ad in the Classifieds.