{"id":9881,"date":"2012-08-16T14:00:48","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T20:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=9881"},"modified":"2012-08-16T13:36:12","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T19:36:12","slug":"why-south-koreas-ban-on-fresh-northwest-potatoes-wont-have-a-big-effect-on-idaho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/08\/16\/why-south-koreas-ban-on-fresh-northwest-potatoes-wont-have-a-big-effect-on-idaho\/","title":{"rendered":"Why South Korea&#8217;s Ban On Fresh Northwest Potatoes Won&#8217;t Have A Big Effect On Idaho"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9943\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 168px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Researchers Godfrey Miles, ARS, (left) and Venkatesan Sengoda, Washington State University, evaluate symptoms in fried chips made from potatoes infected with zebra chip. (USDA)\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/08\/zebra-chip.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9943\" title=\"zebra chip\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/08\/zebra-chip.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"168\" height=\"252\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Peggy Greb \/ USDA<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Researchers Godfrey Miles, ARS, (left) and Venkatesan Sengoda, Washington State University, evaluate symptoms in fried chips made from potatoes infected with zebra chip. (USDA)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Starting Friday, fresh potatoes from Idaho, Oregon and Washington can no longer be exported to South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>As <em>Capital Press<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitalpress.com\/oregon\/ml-korea-zebra-chip-081012\" target=\"_blank\">reported earlier this week<\/a>, Korea&#8217;s export ban\u00a0<del><\/del>results from concerns over an insect-borne disease that causes light yellow potato flesh to darken and stripe &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ars.usda.gov\/is\/AR\/archive\/feb12\/potatoes0212.htm\" target=\"_blank\">the zebra chip<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Idaho Department of Agriculture, the state exported $469 million worth of vegetables in 2010.<strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Potatoes were, by far, the state&#8217;s the single largest vegetable export.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Idaho Potato Commission president Frank Muir says just one Idaho potato grower sends fresh spuds to Korea.\u00a0 &#8220;At this point it doesn\u2019t hurt Idaho\u2019s economy because we didn\u2019t have that much product shipping,&#8221; Muir says. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The reason Idaho doesn&#8217;t ship many fresh potatoes to Korea is because that market just opened in late 2010 after it was closed over concerns about another disease &#8212;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aphis.usda.gov\/plant_health\/cphst\/projects\/plant-diseases.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Potato Cyst Nematode or PCN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>South Korea will continue to<del><\/del> import frozen and processed Idaho potatoes.<\/p>\n<p>Muir says the ban has a bigger affect on producers in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitalpress.com\/oregon\/ml-korea-zebra-chip-081012\" target=\"_blank\">Oregon and Washington<\/a> because those states were never banned due to PCN.<\/p>\n<p>Muir expects the ban to be short-lived, and is confident Korea will reconsider once it better understands the science behind the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ars.usda.gov\/is\/AR\/archive\/feb12\/potatoes0212.htm\" target=\"_blank\">zebra chip disease<\/a>.\u00a0 A key piece of which, says Muir, is that it&#8217;s not a risk to human health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting Friday, fresh potatoes from Idaho, Oregon and Washington can no longer be exported to South Korea. As Capital Press reported earlier this week, Korea&#8217;s export ban\u00a0results from concerns over an insect-borne disease that causes light yellow potato flesh to darken and stripe &#8212; the zebra chip. According to the Idaho Department of Agriculture, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":9943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[49,157],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9881"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9950,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9881\/revisions\/9950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}