Andrew Cummings has been growing potatoes his whole life
Andrew Cummings has been growing potatoes his whole life, but he isn’t farming the same land his parents did.
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“Less risks and good returns for the grower”
Varieties in the market that reduce the risks in cultivation and achieve a good return. This is the most important objective ...
Brent Bydevaate is running the family farm
Brent Bydevaate has taken over the family potato farm and is now running it himself. Growing up Brent Bydevaate always ...
Long road for seed potato farmer Mike Telford and his growing family
A life in farming seemed to be preordained for Mike Telford. “I grew up in Utah in Bountiful. My father ...
Brendon Rockey’s
3-generation irrigated potato
farm at Center, Colorado
The synergy creating the farm’s well-being results from a process of discovery beginning 30 years ago, with Rockey’s uncle.
Van den Borne has more precision techniques again
Precision engineering is woven into Jacob van den Borne's business operations. New techniques and applications will also be launched in 2022. ...
Mackenzie-Grieve:
Canada’s most northern
commercial potato producer
In 2004, Steve and Bonnie Mackenzie-Grieve thought they were ready to slow down a little. Their two southern Alberta businesses ...
Idahoan brand – 70 years
In 1951, a mere nine years after the government’s first potato dehydration facility began operations, a group of potato farmers ...
For 5 generations LaJoie family:
potato planting
The LaJoie family has always been farmers—at least for as many generations as anyone cares to mention. But they haven’t ...
George Crapo – in 1968 start of Crapo Trucking
George Crapo grew up in Parker, Idaho, where, from a young age, he developed a deep and abiding love of farming ...
Heartland Farms – now 5th generation
Four and five generations on, August’s descendants now own and operate Heartland Farms, which has become one of the largest ...
Mack Farms grew its first potato crop in 1989
Mack Farms is a member of Fresh Solutions Network, which has helped not only to expand the reach of their ...
Lindsay Corporation for more than 50 years
For more than 50 years, Lindsay has been a pioneer provider of irrigation and water management solutions. From the strength ...
Reinke Manufacturing start in 1954
In 1954, Richard Reinke manufacturing began ag and commercial equipment on his family farm in south-central Nebraska. Many of his innovations, ...
T-L Irrigation founded in 1955
Founded in 1955 by Leroy Thom and J. G. Love, T-L Irrigation had already become an established manufacturer of gravity ...
Planting the seed for growth: Corey Farms’ move to seed potatoes has paid off
Some potato farms in Aroostook County, Maine have histories dating back to the early 1800s. Daniel Corey’s operation is not ...
Massey Ferguson -celebrating 175 years
Massey Ferguson, a worldwide brand of AGCO, announced a fresh new look for its iconic MF Triple Triangle logo and its ...
SouthWind Farms was born on 4 acres in Idaho
This article appears in the December 2021 issue of Potato Grower SouthWind Farms has been around for 21 years, but brothers Robert ...
Conn Crapo – Idaho seed grower 2021
This article appears in Potato Grower’s 2021 Idaho Annual issue. Conn Crapo is Potato Grower’s 2021 Idaho Seed Grower of the Year ...
2 farms work together with one goal in mind
Three keys to making the plan work
First McCain Foods production – New Brunswick 1957
By using frozen food technology, the brothers opened the first McCain Foods production facility in their hometown of Florenceville, New Brunswick, in ...
400 million rubles a year from potatoes – how a farmer from the Vladimir region became one of Lay’s largest suppliers
Andrei Sinitsyn started the potato business back in the 1990s:
Valley Manufacturing – began in 1946
Robert Daugherty began Valmont Industries in 1946 in Valley, Neb., with $5,000 and a dream. Of course, it wasn’t known as ...
Randy & Karlene Hardy
That’s how Karlene Hardy describes the people from across the country she and her husband Randy have gotten to know ...
Dan Moss is Idahoan, through and through
He didn’t grow up in Idaho. He didn’t even begin his farming career in Idaho
