Fresh Market Outlook from UPGA’s Mark Klompien

05/28/21 • 23 min

Eye on Potatoes: A Podcast on All Things Potatoes

This week, the Eye on Potatoes podcast welcomed Mark Klompien, President and CEO of United Potato Growers of America, to provide an outlook for remainder of this current shipping crop and a look head to plantings and acreage for the 2021 fresh potato crop. Additionally, in his role as Chairman of United Fresh’s Government Relations Council, Mark discussed the United Fresh/PMA merger and what it means for potato organizations.
Learn more about UPGA at unitedpotato.com.

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Good Leaders Never Stop Learning

The Leadership Institute Alumni Summit, July 13-15, will bring together Potato Industry Leadership Institute graduates to network, refresh skills, and learn new techniques to better position themselves for success in the potato industry. All past graduates of the Institute are invited to participate in the three 90-minute workshops that will be active, engaging, fast-paced, high energy and packed with tips to put to use immediately.

Two of the three sessions will be led by Laurie Richards – a familiar face to Institute grads – as she’s taught leadership training seminars for the Institute for many years.

Laurie and Mike Wenkel from Potato LEAF join the podcast to talk about what alumni can look forward to during this first-ever virtual summit.
Courses will include:

Refining Your Leadership Skills
Refining Your Conflict Management
Boosting the Team's Morale

Registration closes June 18, 2021. For additional information visit pleaf.org.

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Potato Growers Join the Climate Change Fight

Farmers, ranchers, and forest owners are on the frontlines of climate change and have an important role to play in developing solutions. That shared understanding led an unprecedented group — representing farmers, forest owners, the food sector, state governments, and environmental advocates — to form the Food and Agriculture Climate Alliance (FACA), of which the National Potato Council is a member.
This week, Randy Russell, founder of The Russell Group, which manages the Food and Agriculture Climate Alliance, joins the podcast to talk about how the FACA coalition got started and why it was so important that potato growers have taken a seat at the table.
To learn more about FACA, visit agclimatealliance.com.