2025 Maine Potato Summit
The Maine Potato Summit was held on January 15, 2025 at the Smith Wellness Center at Northern Maine Community College. It was a great day of innovative talks, crop product updates followed up with a networking reception with growers, vendors and industry representatives.
As always, the event was free for Maine growers and their staff.
Sponsors
Presentations
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2025 Schedule
| Time | General Session |
| 8:00 AM | Registration |
| 8:00 am – 8:30 am | Breakfast sponsored by CaroVail/Carolina Eastern |
| 8:30 – 9:30 am | Steve Li- Auburn University, UAV spraying- Steve will discuss the basics of crop spraying using UAVs. |
| 9:30 – 10:00 am | Andrei Alyokhin- University of Maine, Potato entomology. Andrei will discuss economic impact levels of different insects on potatoes and the amount of damage potato plants can incur before yield impacts are observed |
| 10:00 – 10:30 am | Morning Break |
| 10:30 – 11:30 am | Bryan Hammis- Michigan Operator, UAV Potato Spraying. Bryan will discuss spraying with UAVs specifically on potatoes. |
| 11:30 – 12 pm | Han Tan- University of Maine, UAVs for pest detection. Han will speak on research he is helping conduct on utilizing UAVs to determine disease and insect presence in potatoes. |
| 12 – 1 pm | Lunch sponsored by Bluefield Seeding Solutions |
| 1 – 1:30 pm | Panel (Hammis, Li, Active Intelligence, MBPC)- The panel will discuss and answer questions on the use of UAVs for pesticide applications in potatoes. |
| 1:30 – 2pm | Mario Andrade- University of Maine, Potato Breeding Update. Mario will discuss the latest breeding efforts from UMaine. |
| 2 – 2:20 pm | Mike Wenkel- National Potato Council, National Potato Industry Update. |
| 2:20 – 2:50 pm | Afternoon Break |
| 2:50 – 3:10 pm | Syngenta Update- Latest insecticide product and update |
| 3:10 – 3:30 pm | Techmark Update- Latest storage technology for disease management. |
| 3:30 – 3:50 pm | BioSafe Systems Update- Latest product updates. |
| 3:50 – 4:10 pm | Agri-Cal Update- Latest product updates. |
| 4:15 pm – 6 pm | Reception sponsored by Farm Credit East |