2013-06-08 Vegetable Crop Update

June 8 2013 Vegetable Crop Update

Content:

  • DSV’s/Blitecast for late blight management
  • PDays for early blight management
  • Basil downy mildew
  • Carrot foliar disease control considerations
  • Insect Pest updates:
    • Seed maggots
    • Aster leafhoppers
    • potato leafhoppers
    • onion thrips
    • soybean aphids

67 Years of Potato Chip Innovation

Source:  NPR.Org

Americans spend less on groceries than they did a few decades ago. That’s partly because of new machines and technology that have made it much cheaper to produce food.

NPR went to the Herr’s potato chip factory in Nottingham, Pa., to see some of this food-making technology in action. When Herr’s first opened up in 1946, founder Jim Herr and his family made chips by hand. Here are three ways the process has changed over the years.

Potato Chip Innovation