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October 2, 2015
Spud leaders hope to continue
collaborative breeding effort
By JOHN O’CONNELL
Capital Press
ABERDEEN, Idaho —
Rich Novy, a potato breeder
with the local USDA Agri-
cultural Research Service,
and his colleagues spent
Sept. 16 evaluating an as-
sortment of their own lines
and material from all of the
major U.S. breeding pro-
grams.
The spuds were entries in
the National Fry Processing
Trials, a collaborative breed-
ing effort started five years
ago in response to industry
concerns about acrylamide
— a chemical found in cer-
tain fried foods linked to
cancer in testing of laborato-
ry animals.
Industry sources say it’s
unlikely that the trials will
continue next season in their
present form, as there’s still
no conclusive evidence link-
ing acrylamide to human can-
cer and the issue has largely
fallen off the public’s radar.
Some in the industry,
however, say the trials have
demonstrated what can be
accomplished when breeding
programs work together, and
they hope to retain the part-
nership to address a broader
range of processing needs.
“The funding partners are
still in the midst of making a
decision on that,” said Ryan
Kraybill, U.S. Potato Board’s
director of research and anal-
ysis.
The trial has helped cut
the roughly 15-year timeline
for releasing certain variet-
ies in half, Kraybill said. The
major processors and U.S.
Potato Board have collec-
tively contributed $250,000
to $300,000 annually toward
the trials.
“I think it’s unanimous
that there was value in it,”
Kraybill said. “We’ll just
have to devote some thought
to it and weigh the bene-
fits against the cost to see
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University of Idaho Extension and USDA research staff evaluate potatoes for the National Fry Processing
Trials. The trials involve raising potatoes in five different states to evaluate lines that are low in acryl-
amide, a chemical found in certain fried foods that may be linked to cancer.
Wooden high-rise
in Portland shares
$3 million USDA
design prize
By ERIC MORTENSON
‘We don’t want to stop doing the type of work
we’re doing, but we want to build on it.’
Asunta Thompson, North Dakota State University breeder
if it makes sense for it to be
something to be continued.”
Jeannie Debons, execu-
tive director with the Pacific
Northwest’s Potato Variety
Management Institute, be-
lieves the acrylamide issue
that spurred the industry to
take quick action with a nov-
el approach has proven to be
a tempest in a teacup. None-
theless, she sees a future for
the trials in an altered form.
“I think it was a new way
of cooperating,” Debons said.
“Most of the time, the pota-
to programs just worked for
their own geographic area.”
The trials started with re-
search plots in Idaho, Wash-
ington and North Dakota
evaluating advanced breed-
ing lines from their own pro-
grams, as well as Oregon,
Colorado, Wisconsin and
Maine. Three years ago, sites
were added in Wisconsin and
Maine, with funding from a
USDA grant.
At each site, Novy ex-
plained, 52 breeding clones
involved in the trials, in-
cluding 11 from Aberdeen,
were planted this season and
graded for shape, size, starch
content and other attributes
to “see how these clones do
across different regions of
the U.S.”
The top varieties in the
western programs go to J.R.
Simplot’s Caldwell plant for
further evaluation, including
for taste and texture. Eastern
lines are evaluated by Mc-
Cain Foods. Lines from all
five sites have also been sent
to East Grand Forks, Minn.,
where processors and scien-
tists can evaluate them to-
gether during a mid-October
field day.
This season, Novy’s pro-
gram will release a promis-
ing trial variety with several
desirable attributes, Payette
Russet.
North Dakota State Uni-
versity
breeder Asunta
Thompson released Dakota
Russet on a fast track through
the trials.
“We don’t want to stop
doing the type of work we’re
doing, but we want to build
on it,” Thompson said.
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Capital Press
PORTLAND
—
A
high-rise to be built using
cross-laminated timber pan-
els is co-winner of a $3 mil-
lion USDA prize designed to
spark the use of timber prod-
ucts in tall construction.
Framework, a 12-story
project in Portland’s upscale
Pearl District, split the Tall
Wood Building Prize Com-
petition with a project in
New York City. The USDA
sponsored the competition
in conjunction with the Soft-
wood Lumber Board and
the Binational Softwood
Lumber Council. Agricul-
ture Secretary Tom Vilsack
announced the awards Sept.
17.
The Portland project will
have ground floor retail, five
levels of office space, five
levels of workforce hous-
ing and a roof top amenity
space.
According to the devel-
opers, the building’s design
is intended to “communicate
at street level the project’s
innovative use of wood and
engineering technology in
the development of a high
rise structure, along with
its relationship to the rural
economy.”
The building will feature
an engineered wood core and
lateral system to withstand
earthquakes, and cross-lam-
inated timber floor panels up
to 50 feet long.
The design team is led
Thomas Robinson, of LE-
VER Architecture. Con-
struction schedule details
were not immediately avail-
able.
Cross-laminated timbers,
or CLT, are panels made by
bonding dimensional lum-
ber in perpendicular layers.
Boosters of the technology
say the panels — which can
be up to 8- to 10-feet wide,
10 to 20 inches thick and
64 feet long — are strong,
lightweight and much faster
to install than standard steel
and concrete construction.
D.R. Johnson, a mill in
Riddle, Ore., south of Rose-
burg, is the first U.S. manu-
facturer certified to make the
panels. State and industry
officials believe CLT tech-
nology could revitalize Ore-
gon’s timber industry.
Submitted by R.D. Offutt
A pollinator strip planted with the help of a National Potato Council pro-
gram provides a buffer near an R.D. Offutt potato field in Minnesota. It
also provides habitat for bees and other wildlife. NPC is encouraging
members to use their farms to help address declining pollinator habitat.
Potato Council helps
improve bee habitat
By JOHN O’CONNELL
Capital Press
The National Potato Coun-
cil is asking members to use
their fields to address declin-
ing bee and monarch butterfly
habitat, hoping the Environ-
mental Protection Agency
will appreciate the gesture
when it implements pollina-
tor health-driven pesticide re-
strictions.
NPC recently submitted
public comments on sepa-
rate EPA proposals to protect
pollinators and monarchs.
Both comment periods have
closed.
The proposed pollina-
tor-health restrictions would
prohibit the application of
pesticides deemed highly
toxic to bees when crops are
blooming and bees are un-
der contract for pollination
services. According to EPA,
the restrictions would restrict
“most insecticides and some
herbicides during bloom.”
“EPA believes these ad-
ditional measures to protect
bees providing pollination
services will protect other
pollinators, as well,” EPA
stated in a press release.
EPA action on threats to
monarchs, including the loss
of milkweed due to herbicide
use, are still early in the regu-
latory process.
NPC has launched its own
program promoting pollina-
tor habitat planting on piv-
ot corners and field buffers,
partnering with Syngenta and
Pheasants Forever. The pro-
gram donates monarch and
pollinator seed mixtures to
growers. R.D. Offutt, which
has potato fields in 11 states
including Washington and
Oregon, worked with NPC
to plant 650 acres of polli-
nator habitat this spring in
Minnesota and North Dakota,
said Vince Restucci, an Idaho
company official who over-
saw the project.
“I was in one of the plots in
Minnesota a couple of weeks
ago and was excited to see
how much honey bee activity
there was,” Restucci said.
NPC Executive Vice Pres-
ident and CEO John Keeling
argues such voluntary part-
nerships, rather than pesticide
restrictions, are the best way
to help pollinators.