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Plant Management Network

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The Plant Management Network (PMN) is a nonprofit online publishing effort whose mission is to enhance the health, management, and production of agricultural and horticultural crops.

They achieve this mission by publishing applied, multidisciplinary online resources for researchers, consultants, growers, pesticide applicators, and other professionals involved in the management of large and small crops.

One of these resources is "Focus on Potato"

Focus on Potato is a commodity specific web portal of the Plant Management Network (PMN).

This resource is intended to enhance the health, management, and production of potato crops through webcasts and other science-based management information. The project is headed by Dr. Gary Secor, North Dakota State University, USA.

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 Focus on Potato Webcast Addresses Fungicide Resistance
August 12, 2015

Focus on Potato Webcast Addresses Fungicide Resistance

The latest Focus on Potato webcast, titled “Best Management Tactics and Fungicide Resistance in Early Blight and Brown Spot” highlights the importance of measures to mitigate fungicide resistance, particularly when applied and repeatedly used on a single site.
Focus on Potato Talk Teaches Bacterial Ring Rot Sanitation
March 08, 2015

Focus on Potato Talk Teaches Bacterial Ring Rot Sanitation

Of the more than 100 diseases of potato, bacterial ring rot is one of the few zero-tolerance pests. If just one seed potato on a farm is found to have this disease, no seed on that farm can be certified.
Nora Olsen, Professor and Extension Potato Specialist at the University of Idaho
December 02, 2014

Sprout Contol during storage topic of latest Focus on Potato webcast

The lastest focus on Potato webcast provides an update on Potato Sprout Control, by Nora Olsen, Professor and Extension Potato Specialist at the University of Idaho
Potato Psyllid Trapping and Management - Focus on Potato webcast
August 21, 2013

Potato Psyllid Trapping and Management - Focus on Potato webcast

This webcast by the Plant Management Network on Potato Psyllids, responsible for the transfer of the Zebra chip disease consists of two parts: