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		<title>All Potatoes All The Time?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Oct 2010 12:31:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[OLYMPIA, Wash.&#8211;The executive director of the Washington Potato Commission is on an unusual campaign to protest a decision by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Chris Voigt is on day 22 of a diet that even he admits is a little crazy. He’s eating 20 potatoes a day for 60 days. Chris Voigt is eating nothing but potatoes to get the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s attention and the public&#8217;s too. Voigt says recently the USDA excluded potatoes from its list of subsidized foods in low-income programs. And now the agency is deciding whether potatoes should be allowed in school lunches. Voigt&#8217;s efforts have garnered the attention of Washington Governor Christine Gregoire who posted a video to his Facebook page. SOUND: Christine Gregoire. But Voigt says it’s harder than he thought to eat the roughly 7 pounds of spuds a day with nothing but a little oil, herbs or chicken bouillon. Chris Voigt: “I think when I started this diet I underestimated how physically difficult it is to eat 20 potatoes. You’re feeling full all the time. I’m literally having to eat three potatoes every couple of hours. So it’s a challenge even to find the time to eat that much.” Because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Newer Spuds Promise Less Pesticides &amp; Fertilizer</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 13:22:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Potatoes are notorious users of pesticides and fertilizers.  Back in 2007, I produced an Edible Idaho radio story on how potato production had tainted wells on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation in Eastern Idaho. That lead the Shoshone Bannock tribes on a search for healthier ways to grow potatoes.  An article in the Capital Press suggests that the entire potato industry is now thinking more sustainably: &#8220;The industry has changed and potato breeders are changing spuds to keep up, researchers said at the Idaho Potato Conference this week. The theme was &#8216;Putting Sustainability into Practice.&#8217; Researchers outlined some of the advantages of new Russet varieties compared with the industry standard &#8212; the Russet Burbank. Most of the new varieties that have come out of the tri-state breeding program (Idaho, Oregon and Washington) in recent years have appreciably higher nitrogen use efficiencies compared with the Burbank, said Jeff Stark, director of the University of Idaho&#8217;s potato variety development program. Alturas, a newer processing Russet, uses about 42 percent less nitrogen fertilizer than the Burbank to produce the same yield, he said. Premier Russet uses about 27 percent less nitrogen and Clearwater Russet uses about 25 percent less.&#8221; In addition, several of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Genetically Modified Potatoes Hit the News</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2009/10/29/genetically-modified-potatoes-in-the-news/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:20:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A little cosmic convergence of potato news: Last night, PBS ran it&#8217;s ambitious 2 hour program &#8220;Botany of Desire,&#8221; based on Michael Pollan&#8217;s popular book about the evolutionary relationship of plants and humans. In the section of the show profiling potatoes (all shot in Idaho), Pollan &#8220;points up the peril of trying to control nature.&#8221; &#8220;More than most other foods,&#8221; the show says &#8220;the easily cultivated, immensely nourishing potato appeals to our desire to control the messy, fickle business of farming and feeding ourselves.&#8221; One attempt at control was Monsanto&#8217;s genetically modified NewLeaf potato. The show says &#8220;The NewLeaf potato ultimately failed, largely due to the public outcry against genetically engineered foods.&#8221; This morning, Capital Press, an excellent source of Western agribusiness news, published a story stating &#8220;The U.S. potato industry is working to make the reintroduction of genetically modified spuds into the American marketplace a success.  Four or five companies are working on genetically modified varieties, said John Keeling, executive vice president of the National Potato Council.&#8221; The potato industry is understandably sensitive to the fact that the public is wary of GM products, so, according to Capital Press &#8220;The potato council will put together a task force this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Potatoes and Pesticides</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 22:34:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all know that Idaho is famous for potatoes. But did you know that nearly a third of those potatoes are grown on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation, near Pocatello? The soils there are perfect for growing spuds. But that light, sandy soil also leaches agricultural chemicals into the ground water.]]></description>
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