Dick and Carol Okray (left and right) made Ray Keenan (center), chairman of the United Potato Growers of Canada, feel right at home during the Wisconsin Chip Committee and WSPIA Reception. Dick is chairman of the United Potato Growers of America.
January 10, after Potato Expo. The Wisconsin Chip Committee and Wisconsin Seed Potato Improvement Association held its annual reception at the Hilton Austin immediately following Potato Expo, with refreshments, door prizes, cheese and sausage appetizers, networking and some nice old-fashioned camaraderie.
From left to right, Romain Cools, president of the World Potato Congress, Paula Houlihan of the Wisconsin Potato Growers Auxiliary and Jaap Delleman, editor of Potato World Magazine, were all smiles at the Wisconsin Chip Committee and WSPIA Reception in Austin, TX.
new clients, listening to presentations or viewing demonstrations, Potato Expo and Austin, Texas, were good
places to be the second week of January 2019, and a fantastic way to start the year off fresh.
University of Wisconsin Professor Emeritus Walt Stevenson did the honors of emceeing the event and giving out coveted door prizes. From one reception to another, Potato Expo held its own post-trade-show “Potato Fest” in the Grand Ballroom of the Hilton Austin, where appetizers, dinner and refreshments were served to the music of an Austin-based, ninetime Grammy Award-winning band, Asleep at the Wheel. What a way it was to close an event! Immediately following Potato Expo, on January 11 and 12, the National Potato Council held its Annual Meeting at the Hilton Austin. For more on it, see “NPC News” in this issue. Whether it was connecting with current business partners, meeting BC�T February 29