The pulp temperature of fresh potatoes coming out of the ground was only about 63 degrees around 8:30 a.m. Tuesday. That means harvest can continue for a while, said Pasco farmer Randy Mullen. Once ...
AMMON — Residents hand-picked 1,480 pounds of red, gold, purple and brown potatoes from dark, rich soil dug by an antique machine here recently. Pam Olsen of Ammon invited her customers and the public ...
Since potatoes grow underground, it can be hard to tell when they're ready to harvest. Watch their foliage. Once the leaves turn brown and die, wait a few weeks for the largest, best potatoes. Make ...
Potato farmers have been hit by rising costs and bad weather affecting harvests. Robert Strathern, of Fairfields Farm at Wormingford, near Colchester, told BBC's Countryfile a wet spring had delayed ...
CRYSTAL, N.D. – On a hazy, cool mid-September morning, Samantha and Thomas Shephard stand side by side, their gloved hands pitching dirt clumps out of the potato-covered conveyor belt that is moving ...
PORTAGE COUNTY (WLUK) -- The harvest for many varieties of Wisconsin potatoes is in full swing. Tractors can be seen in many areas of the state, digging up the earth, and collecting the crops buried ...
Potato harvest is nearly complete for RG Abrey Farms in Norfolk, which has been pioneering an innovative camera-based system to drive yield and marketability across its potato crop. Yields are ...
HEGINS, Pa. — To a random passerby, this might look like empty farmland, but you have to dig to get to the gold on these acres in Schuylkill County. "So we grow up to 10 varieties commercially, and we ...
When you think of powerhouse potato growing, states like Idaho and Washington come to mind. But at Heron Pond Farm, a full-diet organic farm just north of the Massachusetts border in South Hampton, ...