USPB's Chip Program Now Provides NexGen Variety Material to Partners

Every processing partner in the United States Potato Board's National Chip Processing Program as of now has been shipped NexGen variety material to process. This marks the first season the program has had sufficient material to include every processing partner.

Manager of the USPB Chip Potato Program David Parish further explains why this is exciting for the chip stock industry.

Parish: "And now with this alignment with all the key stakeholders happening much, much faster than it did before. It is nothing new, it is just the velocity of having all these loads available in a given year that go out to all these processors from all these growers in a given year is analogous to the difference between pushing water down a garden hose and pushing it an eight-inch diameter pipe -- you can push a lot more water down an eight-inch pipe than in a garden hose. And that's what we are doing in the NexGen program that is so exciting. Everyone has a chance to participate because we have enough material and we are financial sound enough to create enough seed. And we've brought everyone on board and giving them at look every year at all these exciting varieties that are coming down. The reality of it is that the facts of the program are out there."