Global Potato News
- An online source of potato related information featuring daily potato news updates, a directory of more than 800 links to relevant potato web sites, a globally distributed electronic newsletter containing information about online potato news events and a section for important potato publications.
Briefing Room - Potatoes - USDA provides an overview of potato production in the US, the background, trade and the market outlook. It also produces a newsletter and recommends certain on-line publications.
EuroBlight - A European network of scientists and other specialists working on potato late blight
Growing Potato Plants - In depth article on small scale planting, cultivation and harvesting of potatoes. Potato pests and diseases fully described.
International Potato Center (CIP) - Works to enhance the cultivation, yield, processing, and consumption of potatoes, sweetpotato and other Andean roots and tubers that are in danger of extinction.
Mountain Valley Produce And Potato Seed - Based in Colorado. Photographic tour of seed potato farm, potato variety growing guidelines, recipes and cooking tips, lettuce farming operation tour, and history of the potato.
Post-harvest Management: Potato - Provides information on harvesting, transport, threshing, drying, cleaning, packaging and storage.
Potato Grower Magazine Online - The official web site of Potato Grower Magazine. Information on chemical producers, equipment manufacturers, blight, irrigation equipment, and advertising information.
Potato Industry Profile - Provides information on the history of potato cultivation, production in the United States, demand and the health benefits of the potato.
Potato Research Online - Potato Research Online (PRO) is an online initiative that serves as a gathering place for potato researchers, extension people, growers and other industry members who have a keen interest in potato research. E-services for members include electronic newsletters and discussion forums.
The Potato Then and Now - Compendium of information on potato growing techniques, potato cultivation in history, and science and technology in potato production.
Spudman, Voice of the Potato Industry - Online version of print magazine provides the latest industry news, an up to date calendar of events, a complete industry product guide, and a directory of potato-related links.
Ubi7 - News on a friendly potato gene known as ubiquitin7. Agricultural Research Service researchers snipped part of the gene, hooked it onto a soft-rot-fighting gene, and inserted this new combination into experimental 'potatoes'.