Potato technology adapts to rising demand with efficient planting, flexible harvesting and automated storage systems for ...

With the harvest now coming to a close, many farmers in Aroostook County are reflecting on a successful season.

Potato maturity depends on the variety, ranging from about 110 days for early types to over 120 days for late ones. Key harvest signals include firm skin, flowering for early harvests, and foliage ...

“Small potatoes, sure. But as history has shown, when you start digging up small potatoes, you just never know what you might find,” the column of that day suggested. Small potatoes. It was ostensibly ...

SHELLEY, Idaho — Bryan Searle dug potatoes early Sept. 29 and aimed to finish harvest the next day. “All in all, digging went quite well,” he said. Idaho potato harvest is on or ahead of schedule, ...

The farmers whose crops were left unharvested were waiting for rain to soften the dirt lumps so they wouldn’t bruise the potatoes, then temperatures dipped into the low double digits and froze them.