National Ag News
Potato blight and seed certification bills pass Senate, now in Assembly
Jun 7, 2017, 09:14 AM
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Two Wisconsin bills impacting potato producers might become law during this growing season. One is the “Fight the Blight” bill, which Senator Patrick Testin says changes the response times for farmers when late blight is detected. “The farmers whose field is impacted has 24 hours to treat it with an anti-spore (agent), and if that treatment doesn’t take within 72 hours, then the field has to be destroyed just to make sure that the contagion doesn’t spread.”
The current state law allows growers up to 10 days to deal with late blight, but Testin says research supports the change.
