b'days before the COVID-19 pandemic hit. Since its creation, she has trained her dogs to detect potato virus Y (PVY) and Bacterial Ring Rot (BRR). Nose Knows Scouting offers storage scouting, field scouting and equipment scouting.Parish currently has three working dogs that she trains fiveWere successful.to seven days a week, year-round. While each dog might not bePeople believe in it. And it reallyused year-round, the training must remain consistent to maintaindoes work. The dogs really do well.the skills. The training sessions last from five to 10 minutes and occur five to 10 times a day, as dogs work better in shortsAt three per cent and undersessions, explains Parish.of the virus, the dogs areFor disease detection, Parish says the floppy eared dogs and the breeds that are most used in law enforcement or at airportsvery, very successful.are the best. She uses one dog for a single disease and can trainANDREA PARISHeach dog to learn up to five or six different diseases.Were successful. People believe in it. And it really does work. The dogs really do well. At three per cent and under of the virus, the dogs are very, very successful. When we get over three per cent, our success rate goes down, so thats always challenging when we go on mass odour. Mass odour is a lotbasically their empty farm while everythings already planted more challenging, Parish explains in a phone interview within the ground, to see if it exists. Its confidential information, Spud Smart. and then you can use better cleaning protocols in the areas that While the dogs can be used to detect disease in the fields, theywe indicate that there has been a kind of breach of disease, can also be useful when the plants are still in the ground. says Parish.We can tell you if your shoes or your office has ring rot.One of the greatest external pushbacks, according to So, a lot of farms have hired us for ring rot to do a sweep ofParish, are those who are unsure about the authenticity and 28SPUDSMART.COM Fall 2022'