Grower Resources
Videos
- Harvest Training Videos- Windrower Operation, Harvester Operation
- Mike Thornton & Nora Olsen Discuss Quality of Idaho® Potatoes
General Links
- Commodity-specific Food Safety Guidelines for the production, harvest, storage, and packing of potatoes (pdf)
- All Bug Information Sheets (pdf)
- Safety and Health Topics, Agricultural Operations, OSHA
- ISDA Inspection Results (Buck Slips)
- US Grade Standards for Potatoes. Fresh, Process and Seed.
- USDA Marketing Order 945
- AG Inspection Laws and Rules
- Grading and Packing Idaho Potatoes
- PNASH Potential Hazard Sheets
How To Avoid And Protect Against Bacterial Ring Rot
- Sanitation of Equipment and Storages (pdf)
- Recognizing and Managing Tubers Diseases to Look Out for at Harvest (pdf)
- Directions for Swabbing Potato Production Surfaces for the Detection of BRR Using PCR (docx)
- Cleaning and Disinfecting Potato Equipment and Storage Facilities (pdf)
- Sanorinse Instructions & Precautions (pdf)
- Susceptibility of Corynebacterium Sepedonicum to Disinfectants in Vitro
- What Can You Do To Avoid BRR (docx)
Good Harvest Practices
- Preparing equipment for Harvest (pdf)
- Top 10 Idaho® Potato Production Practices Infographic (pdf)
- Top 10 Idaho® Potato Packing & Shipping Practices Infographic (pdf)
- Storage Checklist (pdf)
- Bruise Prevention Begins Before Planting (docx)
- Preventing Potato Bruise Damage (pdf)
- Thumbnail Cracks of Potato Tubers (pdf)
- Diagnosis & Management of Potato Storage Diseases (pdf)
- Harvest Temperature Consequences (pdf)
- Minimize Bruises and Wounds This Harvest Season (docx)
- Pressure Bruise and Potatoes In Storage (pdf)
- Wound healing: potatoes natural Band-Aid (pdf)
- Superficial Growth On Potatoes (pdf)
- Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) & Good Handling Practices (GHP)
Food Safety Audit Resources
- Example/Guideline Documents
- Example Food Safety Plan
- Example Blank Risk Assessment Sheet (PDF) (Excel)
- Example Filled Risk Assessment Sheet (PDF) (Excel)
- On the Farm
- Penn State
- Cornell
- United Fresh
- Harmonized GAP Plus+ Standard
- USDA Good Agricultural Practices Good Handling Practices Audit Verification Checklist