Company history

 Today Sterman Masser, Inc. ships 8,000 truckloads with 400 employees and farms 6,000 acres — about 1,000 acres of potatoes Keith and Helen Masser both grew up on Pennsylvania potato farms before meeting and...

A scientist. That’s what Terry Miller was. A really, really good plant pathologist.

The Side Delights Network of family-owned farms is vigilantly integrating the next generation into the potato business.

third generation and is the leading frozen potato specialties manufacturer in Austria

largest grower, packer and marketer of bite-size potatoes

Brian's son Tyler graduated from Michigan State University in 2014 and is the 6th generation

Chin Farms owns 1,400 acres of land and rents 3,500 acres in Oregon and California

Franz Grimme, honorary citizen of Damme (Germany) and owner of the GRIMME Group, turns 75 on 3 March this year. In 1970, at the age of 24, he joined GRIMME...

You get the maximum benefit of Northern Vigor

Waltson chips can recently be found in many farm shops and small supermarkets in West Flanders. These are artisan chips made by the Stadense potato wholesaler Debeuckelaere. "The reactions are...

Contract cut had a major impact on their operation but added that this year’s drought hurt them even more

Bj farms is located at Sarabha Village about 25kms from Ludhiana, On Ludhiana Pakhowal Road.

We started out very small

Germicopa is a French company specialising in the creation of potato varieties for the fresh market and industrial processing (fries, chips and starch).Many iconic varieties, such as Charlotte, Chérie and...

The San Luis Valley is in south-central Colorado at an elevation of 7,544 feet, making it the largest alpine desert in the world. The area, roughly 60 miles east to...

Mickelsen Farms was founded in 1988 by brothers Lynn and Dale Mickelsen and Lynn’s son, Mark, but the family’s potato-farming history in southeastern Idaho goes back further than that. “We’ve...

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...

Farming in the north-west of Scotland can be tough enough given the somewhat challenging weather conditions, but the right machinery can make things a little easier Mike Martin runs Garguston...

A lot of farm kids—probably a healthy majority—spend a good portion of their youth grumbling about the long hours, the low wages, the heat, the cold. They get the work...

It’s only early days, but Tim Heysen is excited about boldly going where no potato grower has gone before. Together with growers in the south east, southern Murraylands and the...

From the early stages of planting to the final phase of every package and shipping, you will find the Easterday family actively involved in all aspects of delivering you high...

The smile, even if it’s subtle, rarely leaves its home directly below Ed Starkel’s snow-white mustache, which is somehow both bushy and immaculately groomed. He is a man who takes...

NAPI—the Navajo Agricultural Products Industry—isn’t your typical family farm. For starters, it’s enormous, even by today’s standards of expansion and efficiency: 110,000 acres of cultivated land, with 74,000 of those...

Farming. If you live in Sherburne County, Minn., and your last name is Wingard, that’s most likely what you do for a living. Wingards have been farming in the areas’ sandy soils...

ason Davenport is still a young man, but he has already accrued at least a career’s worth of experience. He grew up on a family farm in Melba, Idaho, and fully expected...

In the early 19th century, German brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm made a name for themselves by putting pen to paper to create heroes who utilized a mix of courage, magic...

Finally, I’m here, in Québec City, the heart of French Canada. Now, if I can get by on the six words of French I learned from Beauty and the Beast, all will be...

Our family company was set up in 1895 as seed merchants who specialise in seed potatoes and grass seed. We also trade in other vegetable seeds and have developed our...

The recent finalisation of a takeover of Thomas Foods International’s potato business and a spike in demand through the coronavirus pandemic has cemented Mitolo Group as the Australia’s largest fresh...

Ten-wheeler truck after ten-wheeler truck rolls by on Airport Road southeast of Aberdeen, kicking up gravel and a familiar, harvesty cloud of dust. Ritchey Toevs has just a few minutes to sit and...

It’s strangely quiet for an early October afternoon at Flying A Ranch in Ashton, Idaho. Trucks and tractors, potato windrowers and grain combines sit idle and unfamiliarly dust-free, waiting for the ground...

The online portal of the Potates News announces a new section - Company History. And he suggests that all participants in the potato and vegetable market place in it a...

Does absence from the potato farm make the heart grow fonder? In talking to young potato and vegetable growers, most were encouraged to find their own paths before deciding on...

Michael Family Farms is located right in the kind of sweet spot that has the potential to make a lot of growers jealous. Urbana, Ohio, where the Michaels have farmed for four...

In the first part of the 20th century, Fred Gumz left his native Germany to seek his fortune in America. He eventually made his way to Indiana, where he set to chasing the American dream...

Agronico is a proud family owned business, based in the small Tasmanian town of Spreyton. Agronico was formed in 1985 by agronomist Julian Shaw (BAgrSc) who with 9 years prior experience...

The Wayside, just off the Heyburn exit, serves a decent burger and killer apple pie. It’s packed in here, as it is every day at noon, but it’s still one...

LeRoy Salazar not only has plenty of experience growing potatoes, he has the rather unique experience — at least among American farmers — of having grown potatoes where they originated:...

Obsession over expenses, old-school work ethic propel Louisiana farmer Sam Ross is the first into the farming fray. Look for the spot where the most work is in progress on...

Since its inception, Patatas Aguilar has focused its efforts on achieving a quality product. To do this, it has taken care of and control the product from planting, selecting the...

Due to the drought problems of recent years and the resulting crop losses in the potato industry, many cultivation companies decided to expand their existing areas. However, the subsequent increase...

Trust in potatoes In 1920 Kees (Cornelis) Meijer established his company.  He traded in potatoes and onions. He built a better life for his family and himself. Kees turned out...

Growers form the core of our organisation: which is why we maintain an in-depth communicative approach and continuously exchange information with them. Nedato advises the growers on choice of potato...

HUNGARIAN POTATOESWe also created our side to show how healthy the potatoes are and how versatile they can be used despite their simplicity. We're one of the biggest potato producers...

From plant to customer. The world was a very different place back in 1963 when NEDATO (Dutch potato growers organisation) was founded. The scale of agriculture was just taking its...

“We love what we do and our passion is in growing the finest quality potatoes for our customers” Castlecor Potatoes was established in 1974. Back then we were as passionate...

EDMONTON, ALBERTA, CANADA - Fresh and natural—an approach consumers and the industry have been following after for quite some time now. This outlook has not only brought a deeper focus on...

NEW HAVEN, Ill. — Delicious food. Beautiful vista. Down-home hospitality. It’s easy to understand why Higher Ground, a banquet destination sitting among the hills of White County in southern Illinois,...

Nonpareil Farms/Idaho Potato Packers in Blackfoot, ID, which will celebrate its 75th anniversary in 2021, has been specializing in russets from its inception, and russets continue to be its focus....

The Heygate group spans farming, flour and feed milling and baking, with ten flour mills on four sites, a feed mill, two modern bakeries and 7500 acres of mainly arable...