2024 Miller Research Potato Pest Management Meeting

2024 Miller Research Potato Pest Management Meeting

Miller Research held its annual Potato Pest Management Meeting on February 21, 2024, at the Historic Wilson Theater in Rupert, ID. Handouts from the presentations are available here.

Please contact Jeff Miller (208-431-4420) with any feedback or suggestions for future meetings.

2023 Miller Research Potato Pest Management Meeting

2023 Miller Research Potato Pest Management Meeting

Miller Research held its annual Potato Pest Management Meeting on February 16, 2023, at the Historic Wilson Theater in Rupert, ID. Handouts from the presentations are available here.

Please contact Jeff Miller (208-431-4420) with any feedback or suggestions for future meetings.

Presentations from the 2023 Idaho and WA/OR Potato Conferences

Presentations from the 2023 Idaho and WA/OR Potato Conferences

The 2023 Idaho Potato Conference was held January 18-19 in Pocatello, ID and the 2023 WA/OR Potato Conference was held January 24-26 in Kennewick, WA. Handouts of the presentations given at these meetings are available here:

Please contact Jeff Miller (208-431-4420) with any feedback or suggestions for future meetings.

2022 Miller Research Potato Pest Management Meeting

2022 Miller Research Potato Pest Management Meeting

Miller Research held its annual Potato Pest Management Meeting on February 10, 2022, at the Historic Wilson Theater in Rupert, ID. Handouts from the presentations are available here. If you are interested in getting a copy of the poster shown by Dr. Jonathan Whitworth showing how different potato varieties react to different strains of PVY, please contact Dr. Whitworth directly at [email protected].

Please contact Jeff Miller (208-431-4420) with any feedback or suggestions for future meetings.

Common Pests of Potatoes

Common Pests of Potatoes

I recently had the opportunity to speak at the Utah State University Vegetable IPM Winter Webinar Series (January 20, 2021). Nick Volesky and I talked about common insect and disease problems of potatoes. It wasn’t possible to discuss all diseases, or spend a lot of time on the diseases we did discuss, but we were able to give a thumbnail view of some common diseases. We briefly covered the following topics:

  • The role of seed certification
  • The importance of quarantines, eradication, sanitation, fertility, and proper irrigation
  • Fusarium dry rot
  • Rhizoctonia canker and black scurf
  • Late blight
  • Early blight
  • White mold
  • Pink rot
  • Pythium leak

A handout of the meeting slides is available here: Common_Pests_of_Potato_Diseases

The video of the meeting is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A9sey8av5k