4 POTATO GROWER | AUGUST 2021
Volume 50 Issue 8
Contents Contents
Bagging, Packing & Shipping
Buyers' Guide
PAGE
20
DEPARTMENTS
5 Calendar
6 Between the rows
Learning from your bad habits
8 new ProduCts
10 around the Vine
50 FOR 50
12 larry alsum
13 JosePh J. PaVek
FEATURES
14 an authentiC exPerienCe
Teton Valley Brands wants to show
snackers "the real Idaho"
18 Built to stand the test of
time
Trinity Trailers are made for the
modern potato grower.
BUYERS' GUIDE
20 Bagging, PaCking & shiPPing
equiPment
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down on one that will work as hard as you? Western potato trailers deliver on average
2000lbs more that the competition. Couple that with the highest resale values in the
industry and you can't go wrong.
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Building the best and making it better…your way!
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DIGGIN' IN
22 load of !*#?@/!
What do you think about manure usage in
cropping systems?
24 go with the flow
Smart reasons to use irrigation water flow
meters
25 automatiC transmission
The continued spread of automatic solutions in
agriculture
26 lying dormant
Understanding how your storage practices
affect tuber dormancy
COLUMNS
28 national Potato CounCil
Fighting to protect America's family farms from
government overreach
29 united Potato growers of ameriCa
Information is a tool that potato marketers
should not under-utilize.
SPECIAL INSERT
idaho grower shiPPers assoCiation
2021 ConVention Program/yearBook