INDUSTRY DIRECTORY
August 26, 2002

Idaho Shippers Meet This Week

Idaho Grower Shippers Association members will meet this week in Sun Valley, ID, to go over some pressing issues, hear the Idaho Potato CommissionR
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August 26, 2002

Syngenta Names Mack President

Michael Mack, formerly president of Imerys S.A., a French worldwide paper company, has been named president of Syngenta Crop Protection.
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August 23, 2002

EPA Completes CIPC Reassessment

A tolerance reassessment for CIPC has been completed, the EPA announced last week.
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August 23, 2002

Minn-Dak Gives Promotions

David H. Roche, president and CEO of Minn-Dak Farmers Cooperative announced the promotions of Jeff Carlson as vice president of operations and John Ha
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August 23, 2002

Mop Top Concern Still Mystery

>Idaho potato industry spokesmen are still puzzled by the sudden announcement by the Canadian Food Inspection Service that potatoes from Idaho were in
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August 20, 2002

Mop Top Virus Stirs U.S. Industry

Discovery of the potato Mop Top virus in Maine and the ensuing outcry from Canada has created a hornet’s swarm in the United States.
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August 20, 2002

WSC Names Cal Jones CEO

>Calvin K. Jones, with over 30 years in the beet sugar industry, has been named chief executive officer of the new Wyoming Sugar Company LLC.
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August 19, 2002

China’s Japanese Exports Increase

China’s sharply increased exports of fresh and frozen vegetables to Japan during the 1990s does not yet pose a serious challenge to the position
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August 19, 2002

Idaho Gets 24(c) Rely Label

Bayer CropScience gave notice that the Idaho Department of Agriculture has approved a 24-c label for reduced plant-back restrictions of Rely herbicide
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August 16, 2002

Nebraska Growers Say ‘Enough’

Like growers/ranchers in neighboring states, Nebraska farmers are saying, “Enough is enough.”
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August 16, 2002

Voigt Named By Colorado

>Chris Voigt, who has served as field operations director for the United States Potato Board, was named Executive Director of the Colorado Potato Admi
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August 15, 2002

Alloway Bought By Standard

Woods Equipment Company of Oregon, IL, has sold its Alloway line of beet harvesters, defoliators and cultivators to a group of local investors.
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August 15, 2002

PepsiCo Goes After Thai Market

PepsiCo-owned Frito-Lay (Thailand) Co. will double its promotional spending to US$10 million to increase its share of the fragmented snack market.
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August 14, 2002

PEI Growers Share Concerns

Over 450 Prince Edward Island, Can., potato growers recently showed up at three meetings to discuss the adoption of a new code of practice to stop cro
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August 14, 2002

Will It Be Tit For Tat?

A major question is looming over the eastern United States and Canadian potato industries.
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August 13, 2002

Idaho Crop Progressing Nicely

.Idaho’s potato crop is progressing nicely at mid-August and it appears a quality harvest is in store.
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August 13, 2002

Irish Growers Being Scammed

Genetic tests are being carried out to determine if cheap potatoes are being passed off as the higher quality Irish Queens variety in a supermarket ch
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August 13, 2002

U. S. Beet Production Up 7 Percent

With sugarbeet production now on a quota system, it is Mother Nature that has a hand in expected increased production this year.
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August 08, 2002

EPA Denies NRDC Claims

As it completed six years of very intensive screening of crop-protection products to meet the guidelines of the Food Quality Protection Act, the U.S.
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