Ohalo and Allied Potato Announce Strategic Partnership to Advance the Future of the Global Potato Industry

South San Francisco, California. Ohalo Genetics, Inc., an innovator in plant breeding technology, and Allied Potato, Inc., a premier grower, packer, and shipper of high-quality potatoes, today announced a strategic partnership to accelerate the development and commercialization of Ohalo’s Boosted® potato varieties. 

The collaboration brings together Ohalo’s breakthrough Boosted Breeding technology with Allied Potato’s global footprint and deep agronomic expertise to deliver higher yields, enhanced disease resistance, and true seed technology to potato growers worldwide.

Driving Innovation Through Industry Leadership

As an internationally recognized leader in the potato industry, Allied Potato has built its reputation on a commitment to quality and innovation. Known for its proprietary Chipperbec® brand, the company specializes in the production and distribution of premium chipping, seed, frozen and table potatoes across domestic and international markets. Through this partnership, Allied Potato is contributing critical field-testing capabilities, agronomic insights, and market expertise to help shape the next generation of Ohalo’s Boosted potato varieties.

“With more than 25 years in the international potato industry, I’ve long awaited a breakthrough in potato breeding like the one we are now experiencing with Ohalo,” said Jason Davenport, CEO of Allied Potato.  “Their work and vision will revolutionize potato breeding, bringing the next generation of high-yielding sustainable crops to an industry that very much needs innovation and changes from an industry that has grown some varieties for 50 plus years or longer.  We urgently need to reduce crop inputs and boost productivity creating opportunities for growers and end users around the world.  I’m truly excited to partner with Ohalo and to play a role in driving the lasting changes needed to help feed a growing global population.” 

A Vision for a Global Transformation

The partnership is rooted in a shared vision: transforming the global potato industry through Ohalo’s Boosted Breeding^™ platform. Traditionally, developing new potato varieties has been a slow and unpredictable process, constrained by the crop’s complex genetics. Ohalo’s proprietary technology changes this paradigm by enabling each parent plant to pass its entire genome to its offspring, rather than a random half. This allows for unprecedented precision and speed in breeding, unlocking a more predictable path to varieties that inherit the best traits from both parent plants.

The resulting Boosted varieties deliver meaningful advantages to growers:

• Significantly Higher Yields: Maximizing output per acre to meet the needs of a growing global population.
• Enhanced Disease Resistance: Reducing the reliance on chemical inputs, improving crop resilience and security.
• True Potato Seed (TPS) Potential: Enabling a seed-based planting system that simplifies logistics, reduces the risk of seed-borne diseases, and improves the sustainability and economics of potato farming compared to traditional tuber-based propagation.

Potatoes feed billions of people, but the genetics haven't meaningfully improved in decades. Boosted Breeding changes that. Partnering with Allied Potato lets us bring these varieties to growers at scale — starting with StorMax Atlantic and a full pipeline of Boosted varieties to follow," said Dave Friedberg, CEO of Ohalo."

As the first commercial milestone of this partnership, Allied Potato is leading the scale-up of StorMax Atlantic seed potatoes. Combining Ohalo’s superior genetics with Allied Potato’s market reach, the rollout provides the chipping industry with a high-performance potato optimized for cold storage and maximum yield.

Together, Allied Potato and Ohalo will set a new standard for the future of potato production

About Ohalo

Ohalo® is sowing the seeds of tomorrow. Founded in 2019, Ohalo develops novel breeding systems and improved plant varieties that help farmers grow more food with fewer natural resources, increasing the yield, resiliency, and genetic diversity of crops to sustainably feed our population. Ohalo's breakthrough technology, Boosted Breeding™, will usher in a new era of improved productivity to radically transform global agriculture. 

For more information, visit www.ohalo.com.

About Allied Potato

Founded in 2007, Allied Potato is an internationally recognized leader in the potato industry, specializing in the production, packing and export of high-quality chipping, seed, frozen, and table potatoes. With operations across California, Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Colorado, and a robust international logistics network, Allied Potato is committed to delivering excellence from the farm to the customer.

For more information, visit www.alliedpotato.com.

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