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Monitoring Tools for a Potato Bruise Prevention Program

BUL0966

June 18, 2020

Potato bruising is costly. It lowers the quality of a crop, leading to customer rejections or direct waste. It's thus critical to quickly identify what is causing the injuries in your operation. This bulletin provides crucial tools (e.g., instrumented spheres) and detection methods (staining procedures) that will help you to recognize two bruising defects (shatter and blackspot bruising) and offers practices (including equipment modifications) that will help to minimize them.

Authors: Andrew K Hollingshead, Rabecka Hendricks, Nora L. Olsen, Mike Thornton

2,850 words

Monitoring Tools for a Potato Bruise Prevention Program

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Physical Address:
E. J. Iddings Agricultural Science Laboratory, Room 10
606 S Rayburn St

Mailing Address:
875 Perimeter Drive MS 2332 Moscow, ID 83844-2332

Phone: 208-885-7982

Fax: 208-885-9046

Email: calspubs@uidaho.edu

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