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The end of the Idaho potato harvest was in view when DTN/Progressive Farmer visited Russell Paterson’s farm not far from Burley, Idaho, a community on the Snake River in south-central Idaho and ...

With harvest well underway, the Idaho Potato Commission says this year’s crop looks like a winning one, according to a report by RFD-TV. The Commission says even though the weather has been all ...

As increasing heat makes fire seasons longer and more intense, a team of scientists is looking to this U.S. state to see what might happen to potato yields – and their findings ...

Potato acreage is down and yields are relatively low in Idaho. “Growers aren’t feeling very positive about their yields – they’re looking to be lower,” Ryan Wahlen of Pleasant Valley Potato told ...

Idaho’s potato crop sold for USD1.04bn in total in 2021, a 14% increase over 2020. Idaho’s average price for potatoes for the marketing year increased by USD1.18 to USD8.46 per cwt. 132 ...

University of Idaho researchers are introducing genes from a plant in the nightshade family into potatoes, seeking to develop spuds that resist harmful nematodes.  The plant, called ‘litchi tomato’, has natural resistance to ...

Pam Hutchinson draws a parallel between identifying weeds in a potato field and wowing a crowd with a drum solo. She performs both seemingly dissimilar yet related feats at a high level as the University ...

In the latest edition of its Grower Spotlight feature, Eagle Eye Produce celebrates potato grower Reed Searle in Eastern Idaho. Eagle Eye says on its YouTube channel, “Reed is an integral part of our ...

The USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and the J.R. Simplot Company signed a memorandum of agreement on June 28, outlining ways they plan to work cooperatively with their mutual customers to support ...

Over the last several years, agricultural producers have been pulled in multiple directions: improve water use efficiency, maintain profitability in the face of rising input prices, and improve sustainability and soil health

Snake River Manufacturing, the parent company of Double L and SRM-Kodiak, continues to invest in Southern Idaho. Currently, Snake River Manufacturing is renovating the entire Kodiak corporate and manufacturing office in Burley, Idaho. ...

The Great Depression was becoming history, and the United States was poised to enter World War II when Idaho’s potato marketing order first went into effect on Sept. 3, 1941. Today, the ...

The global potato market is tight on supply, and farm-level spud prices for Idaho farmers are up substantially. But so are farm input costs and, with prices for other Idaho crops also up significantly, many Idaho potato farmers ...

In 1951, a mere nine years after the government’s first potato dehydration facility began operations, a group of potato farmers in Lewisville, Idaho, joined forces to start their own dehydration plant, and ...

The impacts of climate change in Idaho will present challenges and opportunities to all sectors of Idaho’s economy — from recreation and tourism to agriculture, energy, human health, infrastructure and land — according to ...

This article appears in the December 2021 issue of Potato Grower SouthWind Farms has been around for 21 years, but brothers Robert and Jerry Tominaga and their partner Rod Lake have all been involved in the potato ...

This article appears in Potato Grower’s 2021 Idaho Annual issue. Conn Crapo is Potato Grower’s 2021 Idaho Seed Grower of the Year Conn Crapo of Skyline Farms Seed Grower of the Year.  Idaho Seed ...

Idaho University Moscow campus will soon be hosting a new USD5.5m Seed Potato Germplasm Laboratory. This new lab is, in fact, an upgrade to the previous facility that maintains the startup material ...

Idaho’s potato industry uses to produce about 90% of the potatoes grown in Idaho

A marketing expert who was raised in Shelley and has deep roots in the potato industry will be tasked with maintaining Idaho’s reputation for having the world’s top taters. Jamey Higham will ...

Produce industry veteran Jamey Higham will become the next president and CEO of the Idaho Potato Commission, effective in early 2022. Born and raised in Idaho potato country, Higham says he is ...

The transition from old crop to new crop potatoes is taking place right now, and two potato industry observers report that expected reduced fresh shipments during the 2021-22 marketing year should provide ...

Heat and dryness have been the story of the summer this year in southern Idaho. With record heat, crops — including Idaho’s most famous crop — have seen effects in numerous ways, ...

The hot, dry, and smoky growing season has left some Idaho potato farmers bracing for a poor crop. Randy Hardy of Oakley told the Idaho State Journal that his harvest will likely ...

Idahoan Foods joins the “Mashed in America” tour, kicking off September 2021, and running through August 2022, in order “to spread the love of potatoes” across the USA’s one mashed potato cup ...