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Take steps now to make every potato count.

Follow these four early preparation steps to achieve the best possible potato post-harvest storage conditions.

November 9, 2021

With climate factors like record heat, growers take steps for what they can control, from harvest to storage.

Farmers often face unpredictable factors with climate and climate shifts, like this year’s record heat, impact the growing season.

April 26, 2021

Fresh growers achieve market-ready results with 1,4SIGHT® and 1,4Zap®

There are 2 treatments for stored potatoes which provide year-after-year effectiveness: 1,4SIGHT® and 1,4ZAP®.

January 28, 2021

Protect your pile with 1,4SIGHT®

Bruising, shrinking, sprouting, and rotting can create one ugly sight for potato growers when it’s time to go to market. Let us help!

March 23, 2020

Quarantining with Potatoes

Whether you’re social distancing, self-isolating or in quarantine, we’re all trying to keep life as interesting and stress-free as possible. For delicious meals, potatoes are a great food to introduce into your food reserves (if you’re not already stocked up).

July 31, 2019

IVI reveals the multi-layered aspects of onion storage

IVI stands apart in partnering with onion growers. The sales and service team members at Industrial Ventilation, Inc. (IVI) have a long-running history of partnering with onion growers to facilitate the most optimal storage possible. Many factors come into play, including the onion variety, the maturity and condition of the onion at harvest, the growing […]

July 1, 2019

IVI Enlists a Root Crop Trio to Pitch their Products and Services

Growers invest in their crops and want to treat ‘em right in storage. Growers of root crops like potatoes, onions and sweet potatoes invest heavily in getting their crops to the point of harvest. When their crops are headed to storage, growers continue with their protective nature, looking to ensure the most successful storage conditions […]

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Close up of red/purple skinned sweet potatoes

May 2, 2019

Sweet Potato Storage Research Aids Success for Growers

Growers are sweet on storage. They know that a successful duration of sweet potatoes in storage means the work that began at planting has paid off to the highest degree possible. Continuing research strives to find the best possible conditions for the optimal outcome of stored sweets. Variables are tested and re-tested at the university […]

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February 28, 2019

IVI is helping redefine honey bee storage with innovative uses of storage refrigeration and ventilation products

While Industrial Ventilation, Inc. is well known as the technology and service leader in industrial ventilation for vegetable storage—especially potatoes and onions—we’re flying into a new frontier: honey bee storage. Honey bees pollinate over 90 agricultural crops in the US, playing a significant role in the economy and a vital part in the production of […]

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January 31, 2019

Optimizing Brix % during sweet potato curing

One of these distinct concerns affecting sweet potatoes is the effect of the curing and storage temperature on the soluble sugar content (Brix). Since the sugar content of most sweets is low at harvest, resulting in a not-so-sweet “green”, but expected by consumers to be high, the curing process to develop that sugar content is an imperative step in the storage process.

December 12, 2018

Love your spuds: Mash ‘em

Potatoes. Spuds. Tubers. No matter how you slice ’em—or mash, dice, or grate ’em—that bit of prep is worth the delicious results! For this post we‘re focusing on perhaps one of the most beloved side dishes of all time…the mashed potato. Easy, filling, and delicious, you just can’t go wrong serving up a scoop of this creamy concoction.

November 30, 2018

Love your spuds: Bake ‘em

Potatoes. Spuds. Tubers. No matter how you slice ’em—or mash, dice, or grate ’em—that bit of prep is worth the delicious results! And when you love spuds, these dishes really deliver. What better way to show your loved ones you care than serving up delicious and nutritious fare?

October 31, 2018

Disease Haunts your Potato Storage

As a grower you know that the threat of disease in potato storage is real. Your spuds can look healthy going in, but some signs of disease are not apparent to the naked eye. Or, signs of decay and rot may be missed.

September 28, 2018

Maximizing Sweet Potato Duration in Storage

Successful sweet potatoes storage is paramount to growers. Upon harvesting, initial storage temperature typically ranges from 12 to 15°C (54 to 59°F). For five to ten days, sweet potatoes are in most cases exposed to temperatures between 26 and 29°C (79 and 84°F). This allows the starch to convert to sugar, allowing the sweet aroma to develop. These optimum conditions make it possible to maximize the net results of the harvested crop—allowing up to twelve months in maintaining a high, consistent quality.

Potatoes rolling on a conveyor belt into storage

August 24, 2018

Make sure your spuds are ready to roll into storage with a Jet-Ag® or FruitGard^TM treatment

You’re a potato grower. You did everything in your power to make sure your spuds came out of the ground in perfect condition. You likely were nervous more than a few times thanks to things out of your control, courtesy of Mother Nature. Let’s say you also see no sign of decay or disease as your harvested spuds are moved into storage. And, your storage housing is perfectly prepared, with temperature, air movement and other factors monitored. Do you need an application of a protective, chemical treatment, such as Jet-Ag? Based upon our experience working with growers year after year, the answering is a resounding yes.

Illustration of the IVI Thermadoor, Prop Fan, Humidicall and potato pile.

July 31, 2018

Temperature, humidity, and air movement: the key factors to successful storage and preventing common potato diseases

The two critical environmental factors involved in properly storing potatoes and preventing common potato diseases are temperature and humidity. Adequate and unrestricted air movement is also necessary to maintain constant temperature and humidity throughout the storage pile—and to prevent excessive shrinkage from moisture loss and decay.