Washington grower gets NPC Environmental Award; Potato Conference next week
Washington Ag Today January 21, 2011 As part of its pesticide stewardship program the National Potato Council annually recognizes four growers throughout the U.S. who have been engaged in reducing pesticide risk and excelling in potato production. At its recent annual meeting the NPC honored a Washington grower with one of those Environmental Stewardship Awards, Rob Mercer of Mercer Canyon Inc. of Prosser. Since 2004 Mercer’s operation has increased its focus on wildlife enhancement and sustainable farming, providing some 15-hundred acres of managed wildlife areas and several organic crops. ? Coming up next week it is the 2011 Washington-Oregon Potato Conference. The event gets underway Tuesday, January 25th and runs through Thursday the 27th at the Three Rivers Convention Center in Kennewick, Washington. The 2011 Potato Cultivar Performance Workshop is Tuesday afternoon. General sessions run Wednesday and Thursday with the keynote address set for Wednesday morning at 11 o’clock. That will be delivered by Bob Treadway of Anacortes. His address is “20/20 Foresight: A Look into the Future of Agriculture. Following that keynote on Wednesday is the Potato Bar. You can find out more at www.potatoconference.com That’s Washington Ag Today. Brought to you in part by the Washington State Potato Commission. Nutrition today. Good health tomorrow. I’m Bob Hoff on Northwest Aginfo Net.
