Around 250 people are expected to attend the Big Idaho Potato Harvest Meeting, slated Nov. 12 in Pocatello. Idaho State University’s Bengal Alumni Center event hall, 1601 E. Bonneville St., hosts the ...

PRESQUE ISLE, Maine (WAGM/WABI) - For much of the month, fields across the state were filled with heavy machinery, farmers working from sunrise to sunset, and freshly harvested potatoes. With the ...

The harvest is on. The potatoes are rolling in. And somehow, I keep thinking of Jean Ellinger. She was maybe the world's best potato picker. She died in June of 1999. I met her 40 years ago in 1972 ...

ATWATER, Calif. (KFSN) -- The sweet potato harvest typically requires six to seven people on a tractor to pick and sort the crop. But a change has come to Arnold Farms in Atwater. "What's behind me is ...

I climbed into Ardell Bunde's tractor about 9 a.m. the other day and sat on a pillow shaped like a potato next to him. He was windrowing four long rows of red Pontiac potatoes. A harvester behind him ...

This year’s harvest is strong, thanks in part to consistent rain but not the flooding we’ve seen in recent years. One in a series of columns co-written by Tony and Karen Russo, a father-daughter team ...

Before John Hanson’s revolutionary potato digger, the hand spade or conventional single furrow plough or drill plough was used. A special potato plough was available to “split” each drill by cutting ...