Erick Knowles News Today

A percentage of the proceeds will be donated to the local VFW Post in Victoria.

A percentage of the proceeds will be donated to the local VFW Post in Victoria.

A percentage of the proceeds will be donated to the local VFW Post in Victoria.

Jake Blauer joins WSU’s potato research group Jake Blauer is the newly hired post-harvest potato physiologist at Washington State University. Blauer says that being raised on a farm, seeing global hunger challenges, working in potato processing and seeing the ways storage, distribution, and quality can be improved, all inspired him to pursue a doctoral degree in Molecular Plant Science at WSU. His mentor was WSU potato physiologist Rick Knowles, whose retirement in 2020 opened the door fo...

February 26, 2021 By Brian C. Clark When Jake Blauer lived in Brazil, he says he saw a lot of potatoes, “but they were often green.” Blauer is the newly hired post-harvest potato physiologist at Washington State University. What green potatoes meant to Blauer was that they had been improperly stored. A farmer can grow a great crop of potatoes but if the crop is not managed properly after harvest, there can be significant loses, resulting in poor quality and reduced access to a nutritious en...