{"id":6059,"date":"2021-07-19T14:07:47","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T21:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potatoes.wsu.edu\/?page_id=6059"},"modified":"2024-02-20T08:46:39","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T16:46:39","slug":"zach-holden-associate-in-research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stagewp.cw.wsu.edu\/potatoes\/zach-holden-associate-in-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Zach Holden, Associate in Research"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Office: Johnson Hall 39
Phone: 509.335.3452
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Zach Holden has been working with the Potato Research Group since 2005. A 2004 graduate of WSU\u2019s program in Elementary Education, Zach is a native of the Palouse region. He loves the outdoors and especially fishing. \u201cMy father and I have been fishing the North Fork of the Clearwater River for 20 years,\u201d he says. Zach says his dad has a kind of sixth sense and can tell where the big fish are hanging out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI have two wonderful kids,\u201d Zach says, Maverick and Cece, who keep him busy when he\u2019s not working. Now that COVID has parents schooling their kids, Zach gets to draw on his teaching degree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Watching his children grow is like the process he\u2019s seen with moving a new potato from single plant to widely grown commercial variety. \u201cNot many spuds make it out of trials,\u201d he says, but he\u2019s helped nurture Clearwater russet, now widely grown for French fires and enjoyed all over the world, since it was a single hill. Zach says, \u201cIt takes 12 to 14 years to move a new variety\u201d through the rigorous selection process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zach says he enjoys the gamut of potato research, from supervising seed cutting in the spring to harvesting tubers in the fall, all the while processing evaluation data in every other spare moment. \u201cWe always listen to what the growers need,\u201d he says. \u201cThere\u2019s always a new challenge, from diseases to climate change.\u201d But maybe the most satisfying part is setting up an experiment in the spring, running it throughout the growing season, and learning the results at or after harvest. \u201cYou never know if it\u2019s going to work\u201d until the tubers are out of the ground and ready for inspection by the keen-eyed evaluation team.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\r\n\n\n

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