Potatoes are one of the two main staple crops in Flagler County and farmers are busy preparing the ground and planting the seed. Seed potatoes are smaller versions of harvested potatoes with lots of ...

Eat a Frito-Lay potato chip around the Fourth of July, and the odds are high the potato was grown in Southeast Missouri. It’s part of the Fourth of July Push, the two to three weeks before ...

Many years ago, when I was just starting out in my professional career as a horticulturist, while on my rounds I visited an old farmer. As we talked about growing different crops, he mentioned that ...

TWIN BRIDGES, Mont. — The average American eats 100-pounds of potatoes a year. So there's always demand for healthy seed potatoes. In this week's Montana Moment, we visit a certified seed potato farm ...

STAPLES, Minn. — While most other crops were already in the ground across the country, seed potatoes were just going into the ground near Staples, Minnesota, on Wednesday, June 7. RDO workers were ...

Planting potatoes in the fall gives you a second harvest and fresher food as the weather cools. Fall planting is most effective in mild winter regions, where short-season varieties mature before frost ...

MOSCOW, Idaho — The University of Idaho’s Seed Potato Germplasm Program has started to operate a new cryopreservation unit in which liquid nitrogen vapor freezes seed potato tissue for long-term ...