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daho potato farmers are in the thick of harvesting the new crop following a dismal year for many producers.

New figures from the U.S. Department of Agriculture show the value of Idaho's potato crop reached a record $855 million last year. That's an increase of nearly $22 million from 2008, according to the report the USDA released Thursday.

The Russet Burbank is still the reigning king of spuds, thanks largely to Americans' love of fries.The industry stalwart comprised 44.6 percent of total acreage this year in Idaho, Washington, Oregon, Wisconsin, Maine, North Dakota and Minnesota, acco...

Potatoes are good for you, and Chris Voigt wants to prove it with an all-spud diet for the next two months.Starting Oct. 1, the Washington Potato Commission executive director will eat only potatoes -- 20 a day -- to let people know just how healthful ...

Los productores de papa han estado esperando que los científicos encuentren un camino para combatir la sarna común de la papa. Los investigadores han encontrado un defensor en el suelo. Traducción al castellano del Ing. Agr. Carlos A. Del Caso del artí...

The potato harvest in North Dakota continued slowly as the first frost of the season hit this week, according to the USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service, North Dakota Field Office.

The effects of a lingering recession continued to keep visits to U.S. restaurants down for the eighth consecutive quarter this past spring, but the rate of decline eased over the same quarter a year ago, according to The NPD Group, a leading market re...

Bloomberg: Procter &Gamble Co. was in talks to merge its Pringles unit with Diamond Foods Inc. before halting negotiations last month on concern about the deal’s structure, according to people with direct knowledge of the discussions.

The fast-approaching 2010-11 potato season in the San Luis Valley of Colorado could be the antidote for the lingering headaches grower-shippers have been suffering in the wake of the 2009-10 deal.

Who says a box of pancake mix can only make pancakes?

Final disposition numbers show Idaho’s 2009 potato crop totalling 133 million cwt, an increase of 1.1 percent from earlier estimates.

Harvested area for fall-season potatoes is forecast by the USDA to be down four percent from 2009.

Pest Pros Inc has been granted a trade mark for its Storage Potato Disease Risk Indexing system to be known as STORECAST.The system is the first of its kind potato storage disease and inventory management tool.

"Focus on Potato"of the Plant Management Network has published a new webscast: The Changing Face of Potato Virus Yby Dr. Stewart Gray of USDA-ARS

Organic foods are making a larger impact in consumers’ shopping choices in 2010, according to the results of Whole Foods Market’s annual Food Shopping Trends Tracker survey, conducted online in June by Harris Interactive.

El desarrollo de nuevas tecnologías ha permitido a los especialistas un mejor entendimiento de la biología del Phytophthora infestans (Mont.) de Bary. Sin embargo, mucha de esta información se presenta de forma fragmentada o en publicaciones que a vece...

Chuck Stadick doesn’t want to predict the agricultural future of the Mon-Dak region — the northwest North Dakota and northeast Montana region.“No, we want to make the future,” says Stadick, who is one of the key experts the area has been counting on to...

The United States Potato Board presents the 2010 National Eating Trends Report. The objective of this report is to track and examine in-home potato consumption trends. Data for this report is obtained from the NPD Group’s National Eating Trend...