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Podcast: Eye on Potatoes: A Podcast on All Things Potatoes
Episode: Reflections on the 2023 EPA/USDA Agency Farm Tour Hosted in Washington State
Description: The National Potato Council's annual EPA-USDA Farm Tour allows federal regulators the opportunity to meet with growers face-to-face to better understand how their decisions have real-world implications on family farms. In July 2023, NPC partnered with the Washington State Potato Commission (WSPC) to host its annual Agency Farm Tour in Washington’s Columbia Basin for USDA and EPA staff. Tour stops focused on the use of potato production technologies, including demonstrations of seed treatment, irrigation-mounted imaging cameras, drone and see-and-spray cameras, fumigation and chemigation equipment, and monitoring devices and models.The Eye on Potatoes podcast caught up with Wa...