Chip Seed Online Auction Available for U.S. Potato Growers

Chip Seed Online Auction Available for U.S. Potato Growers

I'm KayDee Gilkey with the U.S. Potato Update brought to you by Syngenta and the United States Potato Board. Listen carefully so you can answer the Spuds, Scales and Sleds Sweepstakes question.

There is an opportunity for U.S. potato growers to access six new chip stock seed varieties that has successfully passed the Chip Stock trials. Manager of the USPB Chip Potato Program David Parish says.

Parish: “What the USPB fast track program provides its stakeholders is the opportunity to buy seed that has been grown under rigorous seed conditions. Seed that has been certified as meeting all requirements by the state certification programs. When these varieties are at this point in their development there is very limited amounts of clean seed available. This just provides the industry the opportunity to move a little bit faster on these varieties that will be auctioned in February.”

The online auction will begin on February 18th, but you must be signed up to bid ahead of the auction. If you are a U.S. potato grower interested in participated in the auction you must submit your email address to the USPB and be verified as eligible to participate prior to getting the auction web address. That deadline for verification is February 12.

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