NPPGA imakulitsa digito kuti uthenga ukhale watsopano, munthawi yake.
Kuyankhulana pakati pa kampani iliyonse ndi mayanjano ndikofunikira, makamaka munthawi yocheperako-nthawi komanso pamaso pamasom'pamaso pamisonkhano yama pulogalamu ndi kulumikizana nthawi yomweyo pa intaneti.
Ndipo ntchito zambiri zotsatsa zikukulitsa gawo la digito kuti mamembala azolumikizana azilumikizana pomwe nthawi yomweyo amatsegula njira zatsopano zothetsera zosowa za makasitomala.
Ted Kreis, director / director for director of the Northern Plains Potato Growers Association, akugwira ntchito ndi opanga ndi opanga kuti atsitsimutse tsamba la NPPGA, nppga.org, komanso kukulitsa kuwonekera pazanema.
Pothana ndi zovuta za COVID-19 ndikusintha kwakanthawi kwamisonkhano yapakhomo ndi malo ochezera, Kreis adati ndalama zoyambirira zomwe zidakonzedwa kuti zizigwira ntchito mwa iwo zidaperekedwanso pazosowa za mamembala kudzera munthawi zina.
"Tasinthana ndalama zochulukirapo kuchokera pazowonetsa zamalonda zomwe zaletsedwa kusindikiza ndi kutsatsa kwa digito, komanso kusintha kwa mawebusayiti ndi makanema otsatsira," adalongosola pakati pa Novembala, ndikuwonjezera kuti, "Misonkhano yamembala yonse idakhala mfundo imeneyi. ”
COVID yakhudzanso zoyeserera za digito pamlingo wina, adatero. "Zinachedwetsa kuwonera makanema patsamba lino," adatero. Nthawi yeniyeni yakukhala ndi moyo sinakhazikitsidwe, koma Kreis adati mawilo onse akuyenda.
Misonkhano yapafupipafupi si ntchito yaying'ono kwa NPPGA, yomwe ili ndi mamembala opitilira 200 a mbatata ndi omwe akutumiza kudera la Red River Valley ku North Dakota, Northwestern Minnesota ndi Eastern Montana kwambiri ndipo ikuyimira imodzi mwa mbatata 10 zapamwamba kwambiri- Kupanga madera ndikupanga mbatata zofiira kwambiri ku United States.
Yoyang'anira ku East Grand Forks, MN, NPPGA ili ndi mlandu wogwiritsa ntchito kutsatsa, malamulo, kafukufuku komanso kulumikizana kwa mamembala ake. Amakhala ndi Purezidenti Donavon Johnson, Director of Finance / Operations Diane Peycke, Woyang'anira wamkulu wa Potato Todd Phelps, Marketing / Communications Director Kreis ndi ND / MN Extension Potato Agronomist Andy Robinson.
Makampani a mbatata amderali ndiopadera munjira zingapo, kuphatikiza pafupifupi ma Spuds onse a Red River Valley omwe amakula mwatsopano sathiriridwa. Mbatata zomwe zimalimidwa kunja kwa RRV ku Central ndi Western North Dakota zimathiriridwa, ndipo zimagwiritsidwa ntchito ngati batala la ku France.
"North Dakota ndi zigawo zoyandikana ku Minnesota zidabzala maekala pafupifupi 82,000 ku mbatata mu 2020, ndikupanga mbatata pafupifupi 25 miliyoni," adatero Kreis.
"Pafupifupi 65% adapita kukakhazikika, ndi 16% kumsika watsopano, 10% ya tchipisi ndi 9% ya mbewu yotsimikizika. Mitundu yayikulu pamsika watsopano ndi Red and Dark Red Norland; Mitundu yayikulu pamsika wogulitsa achisanu ndi Russet Burbank ndi Umatilla. Cascade ndi Dakota Pearl ndi mitundu yodziwika bwino yodula zipatso, ndipo gawo la mbewu ndilosiyanasiyana. ”
Anatinso nyengo yakukula "inali yabwino," koma adati, "Zinawonongeka chifukwa cha mvula yambiri kumapeto kwa Juni komanso nyengo yowuma kwambiri mu Seputembara ndi Okutobala."
Ndipo, Kreis adati, momwe mliriwo udakhudzira ma acreage ena. “COVID idapangitsa kuti maekala osungunuka achisanu adulidwe, pafupifupi 10%. Alimi atsopano aona kuti malonda ogulitsa chakudya akusowa, koma kugulitsa kumathandiza kwambiri chifukwa anthu ambiri akudya kunyumba panthawi ya mliriwu. ”
M'magawo atsopano, kuyambitsa kwa Farmers to Families Food Box Program sikunapindule kwenikweni ndi mamembala a NPPGA, atero a Kreis.
"Bizinesi yambiri ya Food Box inali nthawi yachilimwe pomwe ife sitili kumsika," adalongosola. "Pakhala bizinesi mu kugwa kumeneku ndi kagwiritsidwe kabwino ka ndalama koma palibe chilichonse chofunikira ku Red River Valley."
Nkhani wamba zomwe mamembala amembala amagawana zimaphatikizapo protocol ya COVID, mayendedwe ndi ntchito. Kreis adati masheya onsewa akutsatira njira zoyenera zachitetezo; mayendedwe ndi "olimba kwambiri"; ndipo ntchito, nayonso, imatchedwa “zolimba kwambiri.”
Koma masabata omwe adatsogolera ku Thanksgiving adawona bizinesi yomwe Kreis adalongosola kuti ndi "yachangu kwambiri," ndipo pamodzi ndi zina zonse zadziko lapansi, Zigwa za Kumpoto zikupita ku 2021 ndikuyembekeza kuti masiku owala bwino abwera ndi chaka chatsopano.