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"When Tillage begins, the other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization"
--Daniel Webster, 184Click on any of the following headings for links to related websites.
See Also Fertilization and Liming
StorageSee Also, Equipment(Buildings) and Production
Frozen Storage
Crop Storage
Ventilation and Refrigeration
Varieties & Breeding
Sites followed by red text are mostly huge listings with up to several thousand entries. Virtually every variety can be found in one or the other. See also OSU Variety Identification Chart
Potato Breeding
- Bejo Seeds -- true potato seeds and potato hybrids
- C. Quiro's Potato Breeding Page (CA) -- a fully annotated college course outline
- Potato Genebanks
Commercial Potato Production Guide (Manitoba) Commercial Potato Production in Alberta Commercial Potato Production in N. America (PAA) Commercial Potato Production in Eastern N.C. Growing Irrigated Potatoes (NDSU) Ohio Potato Production Guide Potato Information Exchange (P.I.E.) -- a comprehensize website covering all aspects of potato production Potato Pest Management Guide (Maine) -- excellent resource for diseases, insects, weeds, vine killers, sprout inhibitors, etc. Potato Production in Alberta -- a topnotch, comprehensive site; check it out! Potato Vine Dessicants (Fla) Potato Vine Killing (Idaho) Production (Potato) in Australia -- click on selected topic or scroll down to links Production (Potato) in Florida Production (Potato) in Kentucky Small Potatoes for Fresh Market (Alberta) University of Idaho Potato Page Vegetable (and Potato) Production in Ohio
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Related Sites Crop Water Use (Agrimet)Water
(See also Irrigation, Environmental)
- Agrochemicals in Groundwater/Potatoes (Sask., Ca.)
- American Inst. of Hydrology (AIH)
- Desertification -- UN Commission on
- National Groundwater Association
- American Rivers Home Page
- American Waterworks Assoc.
- Conservation of Water (Oregon) -- several pubs on water conservation at home and on the farm
- Conservation on Small Acreages (Texas)
- Crop Water Use, PNW (Agrimet)
- Ctr. for Water & Env. Sust. (CWESt--Oregon) -- many good links
- Drought in Oregon (OSU) -- info about, coping with drought
- Drought Planning Guides & Links (NDMC)
- Endangered Species --program and many links to related sites
- Endangered Species Act -- actual legal document
- EPA Off. of Wetlands, Oceans & Watersheds
- For the Sake of Salmon
- Give Water a Hand
- Groundwater Foundation
- Hydrology and Water Resources (Oregon)
- Klamath Basin Crisis, The -- keep track of the Klamath Basin struggle over irrigation rights
- Klamath Basin (Upper) Watershed
- Klamath River Compact Commission
- Kuo Testing Labs, Inc. -- nitrate levels in plants, water, and soil
- Loggers, Galaxie -- loggers for soil temp., moisture, conductivity, and other environmental parameters
- Managing Water for Drought (ACE) -- huge file!!!
- Manure and Groundwater (Oregon)
- Manure Management to Reduce Water Pollution (Oregon)
- National Drought Mitigation Center (NDMC)
- National Inst. for Water Resources
- National Water and Climate Center (NWCC)
- National Water Resources Assoc.
- National Wetlands Research Center
- Nitrogen Management and Groundwater (S. Dak.)
- NRCS Water and Climate Center
- Oregon Climate Service (OCS)
- Oregon Groundwater (OSU) -- everything you need to know about Oregon groundwater and related topics?
- Oregon Seagrant
- Oregon Geog. Info. Systems
- Oregon Water Resources Dept. -- water rights, usage, much more
- Pacific Rivers Council
- Pesticides and Clean Water (Neb.)
- Pesticides in Groundwater (USGS)
- PNW Water Quality Program, CSREES
- Potato Information Exchange (P.I.E.) -- a comprehensize website covering all aspects of potato production
- Production (Potato) in Australia -- click on selected topic or scroll down to links
- Reducing Groundwater Contamination from Manure (Oregon)
- Riparian Zone Resources (B. Col.)
- SagTech.Com -- a new approach to reservoir/basin tillage for erosion prevention
- Soil and Fertility Management (Florida)
- Soil and Water Science Handbook (Florida) --outstanding, comprehensive
- University of Idaho Potato Page
- U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
- USGS Water Resources of the U.S.
- U.S. Fish & Wildlife Svc.
- Water Conservation (Oregon) -- several pubs on water conservation at home and on the farm
- Water Librarian's Home Page -- outstanding resource for water issues
- Water Quality Info. Center (Nat. Ag. Lib.)
- Watershed Analysis Tools (Oregon)
- Western Drought Coordination Council (WDCC)
- West. Governors Assoc. Drought Initiatives Page
- World Water Council -- 3rd world water forum; int'l policy think tank. Outstanding resource
- World's Water, The -- info on world's fresh water; hundreds of good links
- Klamath Basin Crisis, The -- keep track of the Klamath Basin struggle over irrigation rights
- Oregon Water Rights Public Notice
- Oregon Water Rights
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Related SitesWEB Searching Tired of slow internet access at "40 Up & Plumb"? That is, 40 miles north of town and plumb back in the sticks? You may want to look into fast, direct access via a satellite dish. If so, check out DirectPC for details.
- Ag/Potato Site Lists, etc.
- Ag Answers Home Page -- Ohio State
- Ag Domain
- AgDB -- databases for a large number of agricultural topics
- Ag Internet Users Association
- Agriculture Business Directory
- Agriculture Colleges -- world-wide coverage
- @griculture Online
- Agricola--Access to Ag Literature-- find books and articles on any subject; citations only
- AgriGator * Agricultural Publications
- Agriculture Business Directory
- Agronomic Links (Purdue Univ.)
- Agrisurf -- dozens of categories and thousands of links, all ag!!
- Agronomic Links Across the Globe (Purdue University)
- Ag Market Sites
- Ag Network Info Center (AGNIC) --Directories of ag-related internet info resources
- AG PAGE
- Agsites -- more than 1,000!
- APSnet WWW Server
- Best of the Web - Potatoes - a helpful resource for researching potatoes on the Internet.
- CCI, Inc. agLINKS
- Cornell University Farmer's Guide to URL Listings
- Current Research Info System (CRIS)
- DMOZ -- links to major links
- DTN Ag Data
- E-Answers -- outstanding keyword-search tool for finding online university pubs.
- Equipment Search -- on-line search engine for all manner of used equipment
- Farm Management Resources
- Farmers Guide to the Internet -- Fairly complete source for all topics
- Favorite Sites ( U of Ky.)
- Florida Ag Info Ret System
- Florida Agricultural Information Retrieval System
- Florida Agricultural Information Retrieval System
- Fuad's Potato Links -- lots of potato sites
- Global Agribusiness Info Network -- almost 400 companies as of 8/21/2000
- Global Potato Focus
- Growserv PNW AG
- Horticulture WWW Servers
- HTML CENTRAL : The Web Resource
- Info Services for Ag (ISA)
- International Ctr. for Scientific. Res.
- Intl. Fed. of Ag. Producers
- Internet IPM Sources for Potato
- Internet Resources for Ag (NCSU)
- Internet Searching Tools Index
- Irrigation Association (Search Engine)
- Joe Farmer Search Engine
- National Agricultural Library
- National IPM Network
- Nerd World Agriculture
- Not Just Cows -- Web directory for agriculture.
- OCES's Guide to Agricultural Web Sites
- Oregon Ag Resources
- OSU Library -- click on "Research Gateway" then "E-Journal List" to search abstracts or full-text articles in popular journals
- PotatoEngine -- a search engine devoted solely to potatoes!!
- Potato News Website Directory -- more than 800 categorized links!
- Potato Research Online -- service of Global Potato
- Progressive Farmer
- Quick Search -- multi-purpose search engine; dictionary, encyclopedias, phone books, games, movies, etc
- RedePapa
- Selected Agricultural Internet Resources
- Small Grains Links
- USAgNet -- good search engine for any ag subject, companies, etc.
- UselessKnowledge.com -- trivia, sources of famous quotations, etc.
- World Agricultural Information Center
- Worldwide Ag Site Index
- World Wide Web Virtual Library: Agriculture
- Yahoo! Science: Agriculture
- Yahoo's Ag Company List
- Yahoo! - Science:Agriculture:Institutes
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- General Searches, All Topics
- AltaVista
- Britannica (Encyclopedia) -- good information on nearly everything
- DMOZ -- links to major links
- Dogpile
- Easy Searcher
- Excite
- Hot Bot
- Infoseek
- Internet Directory
- INTERNET RESOURCES FOR INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH
- Internet Searching Tools Index
- IXQUICK.COM -- powerful but simple-to-use comprehensive search engine
- Libweb - Library WWW Servers
- Links to Other Internet Information Sources
- Lycos
- Magellan
- Maps (National Geographic) -- find a map for almost any site; use "atlas" version for roads, cities, etc.
- National Science Foundation World Wide Web Server
- Quick Search -- multi-purpose search engine; dictionary, encyclopedias, phone books, games, movies, etc
- Resources List Metacrawler --Interesting
- USA.NET
- Web-Agri -- outstanding all-ag search engine
- Web Crawler
- WebCrawler Searching
- World Wide Web Yellow Pages
- World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Latin American Studies
Weeds
See Also Pests and Diseases
- CDMS--Agrichemical Database -- full text labels!
- C&P Press Greenbook -- similar to above; excellent
- Clemson University Pest Management Handbook -- click on "Irish Potatoes" for disease, weed, insect control recs.
- Commercial Potato Production Guide (Manitoba)
- CropNet: Crop Protection for Insects, Weeds and Disease
- Eptam for Potatoes (Idaho)
- Herbicides for Potatoes (Idaho) -- slightly dated but 20 excellent pages
- Herbicide Rates for Commercial Crops (Illinois)
- Matrix for Potatoes (Idaho)
- NOXIOUS WEED LIST (The Oregon list)
- Noxious Weeds, Federal and State
- Oregon/PNW Weed Management Recommendations -- scroll down as needed
- Ohio Potato Production Guide
- Ohio Vegetable Production Guide
- Pesticide Center Online (WSU) -- labels, other useful info
- PNW Weed Management Handbook -- an outstanding searchable resource for spray recommendations, safety issues, etc.
- Plant Pathology Internet Guide -- huge listing of plant pathology, weed and biotechnology sites
- Potato Information Exchange (P.I.E.) -- a comprehensize website covering all aspects of potato production
- Potato Pest Management and Water Quality (Fla.)
- Production (Potato) in Australia -- click on selected topic or scroll down to links
- Rutgers Cooperative Extension --WEEDS -- images, descriptions
- UC IPM Home Page
- University of Idaho Potato Page
- Weed Hall of Shame, The
- Weed Identification (Oregon) -- excellent site with lots of images, descriptions
- Weed Management in Potato (UFl)
- Weed Science, Oregon -- excellent multipurpose site; provides management recommendations
- Weeds/Small Farms
- WSSA: Weed Science Society of America
Weights and Measures, Metric Equivalents
See Also OnlineConversion.Com -- Outstanding site.NASDA Measures & Conversions -- Nat. Assoc. State Depts. of Ag; excellent ag info.
Crop Calculators (Alberta) -- various conversions for many crops & applications
- Linear Measure
- Square Measure
- Weights
- Volume
- Temperature Conversions
- Yield Estimates
- Seed Required/Acre
- Potato Weights and Volumes
- Sprayer Calibration
- 1 centimeter -- 0.3937 inch
- 1 inch -- 2.54 centimeters
- 1 foot -- 0.3048 meter
- 1 meter -- 39.37 inches
- 1 yard -- 0.9144 meter
- 1 kilometer -- 0.621 mile
- 1 mile -- 1.609 kilometers
- 1 sq. centimeter -- 0.1550 sq. inch
- 1 sq. inch -- 6.452 sq. centimeters
- 1 sq. foot -- 0.0929 sq. meters
- 1 sq. meter -- 1.196 sq. yards
- 1 sq. yard -- 0.8361 sq. meter
- 1 hectare -- 2.47 acres
- 1 acre -- 0.4047 hectare
- 1 sq. kilometer -- 0.386 sq. mile
- 1 sq. mile -- 2.59 sq. kilometers
- 1 tablespoon -- 3.0 teaspoons
- 1 tablespoon -- 0.5 ounce (liquid)
- 1 gram -- 0.03527 ounce
- 1 ounce -- 28.35 grams
- 1 kilogram -- 2.2046 pounds
- 1 pound -- 0.4536 kilogram
- 1 Cwt -- 100 lbs.
- 1 English (long) ton -- 2,240 pounds
- 1 English (long) ton -- 1.016 metric tons
- 1 metric ton -- 0.98421 English ton
- 1 English (long) ton -- 1.12 short tons
- 1 short ton -- 2,000 lbs
- 1 short ton -- 0.907 metric ton
- 1 metric ton -- 1.102 short tons
- 1 metric ton -- 2,204.6 pounds
- 1 tablespoon -- 14.787 milliliters
- 1 cubic centimeter -- 0.061 cubic inch
- 1 cubic inch -- 16.39 cubic centimeters
- 1 cubic foot -- 0.0283 cubic meter
- 1 cubic yard -- 0.7646 cubic meter
- 1 liter -- 1.0567 quarts liquid
- 1 quart dry -- 1.101 liters
- 1 quart liquid -- 0.9463 liter
- 1 gallon -- 3.78541 liters
oC = oF - 32
1.8oF = (oC x 1.8) + 32
Harvest potatoes from several 10-ft sections of row, calculate the average wt. in lbs, then multiply by the following numbers to estimate approximate yield/acre in cwt.
Approximate Cwt/Acre = lbs/10 ft. x Multiplication Factor
Row Width, Inches Multiplication Factor 33 16.4 34 15.4 36 14.5 Approximate Cwt. of Seed Required to Plant an Acre Using 34-inch Rows1
1For 36-inch rows, multiply by 0.93
Seed Seed piece Weight, Oz. Spacing, In. 1 1.5 1.75 2 6 19.2 28.8 33.6 38.4 8 14.4 21.6 25.2 28.8 10 11.4 17.4 20.4 22.8 12 9.6 14.4 16.8 19.2 15 7.8 11.4 13.8 15.6
1 lb/acre = 1.12 kilogram/hectare 1 kilogram/hectare = 0.892 lb/acre 1 cwt/acre = 0.112 metric tons/hectare 1 metric ton/hectare = 8.93 cwt/acre 1 bushel of potatoes = 53 lbs 1 bushel = 1.244 cu ft = 35.2 liter 1 cu ft of potatoes = about 42 lbs 1 cwt of potatoes = 2.38 cu ft 42 lbs/cu ft = 672.5 kg/cubic meter 1 barrel = 11 pks = 165 lb = 3.93 cu ft = 0.11 cu meter 1 short ton = 2000 lb 1 metric ton = 2204.6 lb Broadcast Sprayer Calibration:
Gallons/acre = (5940 x gallons/minute/nozzle)/(nozzle spacing in inches x mph)
Example (5940 x 0.35 gpm)/(18 inches x 4.5 mph) = 25.7 gpa
Band Sprayer Calibration:
Gallons/acre = (5940 x gpm/nozzle)/(nozzle band width x mph)
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Example (5940 x 0.35 gpm)/(12-inch band x 4.5 mph) = 38.5 gpa
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