Education

Potato Soil Health Manual

Presentations

• Enhancing Soil Health in Potato Cropping Systems: The SCRI Kickoff
• Enhancing Soil Health in U.S. Potato Production Systems - Industry and Technical Advisory Committee Meeting Presentation - Potato Expo, Austin TX, Jan. 11, 2019
• Summary and planning for Objective 1 research - Stakeholders' Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, March 7, 2019
• Objective 3 presentation on Soil Health Questions at the Montana Seed Seminar - Stakeholders' Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, March 7, 2019
• Enhancing Soil Health in Potato Cropping Systems: PAA Update & Progress
• The Potato Soil Health Project Update.  Poster, Potato Expo 2020, Las Vegas, NV, January 14, 2020.
• The Potato Soil Health Project Update:  Year 1.  National Specialty Crops Research Initiative Stakeholder and Advisory Committee Meeting, Potato Expo 2020, Las Vegas, NV, January 15, 2020.
• Evaluating and improving soil health in OR/WA potato production systems:  Year 1.  Amber Moore, Ken Frost, and Bryn Evin.  Washington/Oregon Potato Conference, Kennwick, WA, January 23, 2020.
• What is a potato soil health cropping system?  Update from the SCRI Potato Soil Health Project.  Poster, Potato Expo 2021.
• Potato Soil Health Interview with Carl Rosen at Potato Expo 2021 on Potatoes USA's Potato-Cast podcast (Original removed).
• Soil health indicators and microbial communities in a newly converted field and an adjacent fumigated field with long-term potato history.  Touqeer Abbas et al.  Poster, PAA 2022, Missoula, MT, July 19, 2022.
• Effects of soil health management strategies on soil characteristics and potato yield.  James Crants et al.  Poster, PAA 2022, Missoula, MT, July 19, 2022.
• Crop management impacts on soil health, disease, and yield in northern Maine potato production.  Katie Ashley et al.  Poster, Plant Health 2022, Pittsburgh, PA, August 6-10, 2022.
• Impacts of compost and fall mustard on a potato production system in Hermiston, Oregon.  Amber Moore.  Presentation.  15th Washington-Oregon Potato Conference, Kennewick, WA.  January 25, 2024.

Videos

• Matt Ruark (University of Wisconsin - Madison) demonstrates aggregate stability sampling in sandy soils.  April 2019.
  • Video 1:  Sand
  • Video 2:  Sandy loam

Extension factsheets

• Michelle Marks, Matthew Ruark, Kurt Steinke, and Kenneth Frost.  What makes healthy soils?
• Michelle Marks, Matthew Ruark, Richard Lankau, Linda Kinkel, and Kenneth Frost.  What is the microbiome?
• Kenneth Frost, Bryn Evin, Michelle Marks, Ann MacGuidwin, Deana Knuteson, and Andy McGuire.  Biofumigation:  Is it a viable alternative?
• Bryn Evin, Kenneth Frost, Deana Knuteson, Matthew Ruark, and Andy Robinson.  Improving soil with cover cropping in potatoes.
• Matt Ruark, Dean Knuteson, Amber Moore, Bryn Evin, and Carl Rosen.  Soil health indicators for potato cropping systems.
• Bryn Evin, Ken Frost, Andy Robinson, Julie Pasche, Deana Knuteson, Amanda Gevens, Ann MacGuidwin, and Jianjun Hao.  A brief overview of soil-borne pathogens & pests in potato production systems.
• Deana Knuteson, Amanda Gevens, Bryn Evin, Ken Frost, Andy Robinson, and Julie Pasche.  Fumigation use in potato production systems.
• Bryn Evin, Ken Frost, Linda Kinkel, Ann MacGuidwin, Deana Knuteson, Amanda Gevens, and Bob Larkin.  Disease suppressive soils.
• Bryn Evin, Linda Kinkel, Marian Bolton, Deana Knuteson, and Jianjun Hao.  What are Beneficial Soil Microbes?
• Deana Knuteson, Matt Ruark, Carl Rosen, Amber Moore, and Kurt Steinke.  Potato soil fertility basics and options.
• Cynthia Gleason, Ann MacGuidwin, and Deana Knuteson.  Nematodes for Soil Health.
• Kate Binzen Fuller, Alex Maas, Chris McIntosh, and Deana Knuteson.  Basics of Potato Economics.
• Amber Moore, Ken Frost, Carl Rosen, Deana Knuteson, Matt Ruark, and Kurt Steinke.  Animal Manures as Organic Amendments in Potato Cropping Systems

Surveys

• Kate Fuller, Bob Larkin, Chris McIntosh, and Alex Maas.  Montana Seed Seminar soil health questions.
• Ruark, Matt, and Michelle Marks. UW Extension and WPVGA Grower Conference survey results.

Imagery

• Multispectral imagery example from Oregon State University's Objective 1 small-plot study field.