Schedule at a Glance
Monday, January 27th
1pm - 4pm Booth Move In 5pm - 9pm Early Bird Reception SpringHill Suites
Tuesday, January 28th
7:00am Registration Opens
8am - 10am Booth Move In
8:30am - 12pm English CPR/First Aid Training
10am - 12pm Ag Innovation: Cutting-Edge Ag Tech
10am - 5pm Trade Show
2pm - 5pm Cultivar Performance Workshop
5pm - 8pm Trade Show Reception & Potato PAC Auction (TRCC)
Ag Innovation Session
Tuesday, January, 28th
10:00 am Andrew Blight, Spudnik. Improving Tuber Quality Through Innovation
10:20 am Aaron Schultz, Monarch Tractor. Autonomous Tractors: Challenges and Opportunities
10:50 am Blake Farris, Ecorobotics, Ecorobotix ARA. AI-Powered Innovation in Ag-Spraying 11:15 am Monty Teeter, Dragon Line. Boosting Pivot E ciency with Mobile Drip Irrigation
First Aid / CPR / AED Certification Toyota Center Media Room
8:30am-12pm English-Tuesday, January 28
Annual Potato Bar
Wednesday, January 29th
12pm - 1:30pm Located in both TRCC & TC
Wednesday Sessions January, 29th
7:30am Continental Breakfast @ Three Rivers Convention Center
Raina Spence, Moderator
7:55am WELCOME
8:00am Potatoes USA Update, Blair Richardson, Potatoes USA
8:25am Federal and International Trade Update for the Potato, Kam Quarles, National Potato Council
8:50am Washington State Potato Commission Update, Chris Voigt, Executive Director Washington State Potato Commission
9:15am Oregon Potato Commission Update, Gary Roth, Executive Director Oregon Potato Commission
9:40am BREAK
9:55am Harvesting Progress: The State of Water and Agriculture in Washington Derek Sandison, Director, Washington State Department of Agriculture
10:20am Water for Crops: Navigating Challenges and Opportunities
Matt Harris, Assistant Executive Director, Washington State Potato Commission
10:45am Sprout Control in Storage: A Review, Nora Olsen, University of Idaho, Kimberly
11:10am Contributions of Plant Pathology to the Potato Industry, Gary Secor, North Dakota State University, Professor
11:35am Insecticide Resistance Management of the Colorado Potato Beetle
Russ Groves, University of Wisconsin-Madison
12:00pm Hosted Potato Bar - TRCC & TC
Ken Frost, Moderator
1:00pm Physiological Aging Storage Treatments to Optimize Tuber Set Size & Size Distribution..., Olufunke Ogundiya, WSU, Pullman
1:25pm Skin Development in Tubers from the Columbia Basin Jacob Blauer, WSU-Pullman
Cultivar Workshop Schedule
Tuesday, January, 28th
1:30pm Cultivar display – view the clones and cultivars from this year’s trials
1:45pm Field performance and agronomy updates of new clones & cultivars
2:10pm 2024 postharvest storage & quality evaluations
2:35pm How do selections from Columbia root-knot nematode resistant breeding families stack up against their siblings?
3:00pm Screening for physiological defects in tubers
3:25pm Oregon potato breeding & variety development program update
4:00pm ADJOURN
First Aid / CPR / AED Certification
Three Rivers Convention Center Room CD
8:30am-12pm Spanish-Wednesday, January 29
Potato Foundation Banquet
Wednesday, January 29th @TRCC
5:30pm Happy Hour - Hosted beer/wine 6:00pm Dinner is served 7:00pm Entertainment begins
1:50pm Potato Necrotic Viruses, Alex Karasev, University of Idaho, Moscow
2:15pm Powdery Scab and Spongospora Biology, Kiwamu Tanaka, WSU-Pullman
2:40pm BREAK
2:55pm E ects of Soil Fumigation and Cover Crops on Potato Yield and Soil Health, Ray Qin, OSU, Hermiston
3:20pm Shaping a Climate Resilient Workplace..., Lorena Lopez, Labor and Industries
3:45pm Research Update on Yellow Nutsedge Herbicide E cacy Trials, Rui Liu WSU IAREC-Prosser
4:10pm Potato Mop Top Virus Research: Current Progress and Future Directions, Kylie Swisher, USDA-ARS, Prosser 4:35pm ADJOURN
Español (Spanish) Session Schedule
Three Rivers Convention Center, Room CD Thursday, January 30th 8:00am - 1:00pm Haga clic en Código QR
Thursday Sessions January, 30th
7:30am Continental Breakfast @ Three Rivers Convention Center Carrie Wohleb, Moderator
7:55am WELCOME
8:00am Do Healthier Soils Produce Better Potatoes?, Steve Culman, OSU, Madras
8:25am Analysis of Historical Seed Acreage of Table Stock Cultivars Max Feldman, USDA-ARS Prosser, WA
8:50am In-Season Potato Fertilization: How Do Interpret My Petioles, or Do I?, Mark Pavek, WSU, Pullman
9:15am Discussion on Bruise Management, Nora Olsen, University of Idaho, Kimberly
9:40am BREAK
8:30am - 12pm Spanish
- 5pm Trade Show 10am - 2pm Flavor Chip Challenge 12pm -
9:55am Direct Tuber Testing for Detection of Potato Pathogens Chakradhar Mattupalli, WSU, Mount Vernon
10:20am Automated Identi cation of Plant-parasitic Nematodes of Potato at Genus Level, Cynthia Gleason, WSU, Pullman
10:45am Where Are the Nematodes? Sampling to Facilitate Nematode Management Decisions, Inga Zasada, USDA-ARS, Corvallis
11:10am Developing Improved Potato Varieties with Resistance to Columbia Root Knot Nematode, Sagar Sathuvalli, OSU, Hermiston
11:35am Incorporating RNAi Based Insecticides in Control Programs..., Russ Groves, University of Wisconsin-Madison
12:00pm Hosted Luncheon, Convention Center
Tim Waters, Moderator
1:00pm Introducing New Entomologists, Louis Nottingham, WSU Mount Vernon and Armando Falcon-Brindis, University of Idaho, Parma
1:25pm Palmer Amaranth and Other Emerging Weeds, Albert Adjesiwor, University of Idaho, Kimberly & Joel Felix, Oregon State University, Malheur
1:50pm Response to EPA Rulings Regarding Pesticide Use in Consideration of the Endagered Species Act, Abigail Nickelson, WSDA
2:15pm BREAK
2:30pm Assessment of Blackheart Resistance in Potatoes, Roy Navarre, USDA-ARS, Prosser
2:55pm Blackleg: The Current Situation, Gary Secor, North Dakota State University, Professor
3:20pm New Approaches to Potato Pest Management in a Changing World, Stuart Reitz, OSU, Malheur
3:45pm The Brave New World of Insect & Nematode Control in Potatoes, Alan Schreiber, Agriculture Development Group, Eltopia, WA
4:10pm Predicting Potato Plant Daily Water Use, Mark Pavek, WSU, Pullman
4:35pm ADJOURN
