INDUSTRY DIRECTORY
June 28, 2002

RRV, Colorado Contrast Continues

Hurry and set up a 36-inch pipeline from northwestern Minnesota to southern Colorado to carry water and you’d have some happy potato growers.
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June 24, 2002

Aussies Want Government Control

The Western Australian Farmers Federation wants the existing regulation of the potato market in West Australia retained.
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June 19, 2002

Idaho Merger Still Under Way

Work is still ongoing in the merger of Idahoan Foods of Lewisville, ID, with Magic Valley Foods Inc., and Magic West Inc., of Rupert and Glenns Ferry,
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June 14, 2002

Idaho Seed Growers Concerned

>Idaho seed growers, discouraged and many lacking enthusiasm to plant this season, are concerned for not only their future markets but several other f
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June 13, 2002

ARS Scientists May Solve Dry Rot

ARS scientists in Peoria, IL, are testing soil-dwelling bacteria as a biological alternative to using chemical fungicide as a dry rot control agent in
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June 12, 2002

Washington Denied Import Data

Washington State’s Potato Commission has been denied access through the freedom of information act to reports from the USDA’s Agriculture
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June 06, 2002

Farmland Files Chapter 11

Farmland Industries Inc. has received approval from the U.S. Bankruptcy Court to file a voluntary petition for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
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June 06, 2002

Wisconsin Gets Mini-Tuber Facility

A Wisconsin company, Quantum Tubers Corp., of Delavan, WI, announced today plans to build the world’s largest biomanufacturing facility for mini
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June 05, 2002

Idaho Crop Nearly Planted

.Idaho’s 2002 potato crop is all but planted, the Potato Growers of Idaho said.
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June 04, 2002

BOR Says ‘They’ve Gone Too Far’

Federal biologists have gone too far in mandating water for protected fish in the Klamath Basin of Oregon and California during the next decade, the U
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June 03, 2002

Bayer Merges With Aventis

Bayer CropScience has been formed through the merger of Bayer’s Crop Protection Business Group with Aventis CropScience SA.
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