Potato Production Systems - Softcover

Jeffrey C. Stark; Stephen L. Love

9781588030016: Potato Production Systems

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1588030016 ISBN 13: 9781588030016

Publisher: University of Idaho Agricultural Communications, 2003

Potato Production Systems is a comprehensive guide to potato production written by a team of 30 scientists from North America's leading potato producing region. It offers research-based information on all aspects of potato production, storage, and marketing. Specific information on varieties, management, and pest control measures makes this a unique, essential resource. The book includes 20 chapters and more than 350 color photographs. This complete guide to potato production is designed for producers, managers, consultants, fieldmen, researchers, extension educators, and students.

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About the Author:

Jeffrey C. Stark, Ph.D., is the Division Chair of Horticultural Science in the University of Idaho's Department of Plant, Soil and Entomological Sciences. Stark's research expertise is in soil, water, and nutrient management in potato cropping systems with emphasis on nutrient-use efficiency, stress physiology, and precision fertilization and irrigation technologies. Stephen L. Love, Ph.D., is the Superintendent of the University of Idaho's Aberdeen Research and Extension Center, and is Professor of Horticultural Science. Love specializes in potato variety development, with emphasis on evaluation of potato germplasm, production and dissemination of breeder seed, commercialization of new varieties, and development of crop management strategies for new potato varieties.

Review:

Growers are being offered the new 425-page, potato production textbook-sized volume written and compiled by Drs. Jeffrey Stark and Stephen L. Love of the University of Idaho. Every copy of the book includes a bonus CD-ROM with a full copy of the book in PDF format. The electronic version of the book has special search capabilities. There are embedded links in the PDF file that enable quick access to information in the book. The CD-ROM also contains PDF copies of other potation science publications from the University of Idaho's College of Agricultural and Life Sciences. A total of 28 other University of Idaho and ARS scientists and potato specialists wrote segments of the book. The authors have been getting dozens of compliments on the work. Already the book has proven itself invaluable. For example, an Idaho Falls fresh-pack employee used the book to gather information on potato quality to complete a successful bid for a large contract. After the event, he told Love that "Everyone in the potato industry ought to have a copy of this book." A North Dakota teacher in an e-mail complimented the authors. "I just love this book and the CD is great, too. I think the students should have as much fun as I have had." "The handbook is a real tribute to the dedication of these potato scientists. They did an outstanding job. The book should be one of the most practical hands-on production systems books in the the United States," a Potato Grower magazine editor stated. It is probably the most comprehensive, modern-day potato production handbook available. --Potato Grower magazine, January 2004, Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 92-93.

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