The other day at the “Potato Tent” at Ag Progress Days, I chatted with experts about the problem of potato scab. I spoke with Bob Leiby, retired Lehigh County extension director who now works for the ...

Q: We’ve been gardening all our lives and have never had such terrible luck with our potatoes. They grew very large, but developed lots of scabbing. Many are hollow inside. We have very sandy soil. We ...

A bid to synthetically produce a toxin that costs the Australian potato industry about $20 million annually might hold the key to beating the disease, Australian researchers say. Researcher Peter ...

MONTRÉAL--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CXC-AG, which specializes in the commercialization of university-developed technologies for agriculture, has been granted a patent by the US Patent and Trademark Office ...

Two research scientists on P.E.I. have spent their summer trying to grow a better potato, more resistant to scab and greening, which are both costly problems for potato growers. "Common scab is ...

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Dry, scabby patches or spots appear on the skin of the potato, which can become cracked and pitted. However, potatoes are still edible. To prevent scab, water plants regularly, especially at the tuber ...

The unusually dry weather sweeping the nation could cause levels of a highly destructive potato disease to soar, the Potato Council has warned. Potato scab causes rough 'scabs' on skins and costs the ...

After a long season of planting, hilling, watering and weeding, unearthing a mound of scabby taters at harvest time is downright infuriating. Potato scab (Streptomyces scabies) is a bacteria that ...

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Next time you have food scraps left over from cooking, think twice before throwing them in the trash or garbage disposal. Certain kitchen leftovers can safely attract birds to your garden, while other ...

Common scab's create crusty lesions on potato skins and make the potatoes unmarketable. Q: We put a lot of manure in our vegetable garden, now our potatoes are very scabby. How can we correct our ...