Members of the North Dakota and Minnesota potato industry have helped to establish a $1.5 million endowed professorship for Susie Thompson, a North Dakota State University potato breeder. Thompson in ...

Michigan State University potato breeder Dave Douches has genetically finessed a breed that will store longer, stay fresher and even make potato chips taste better, researchers said. Which means, ...

New $1.6 million storage research facility aims to unlock value, reduce losses, and improve profitability across the supply chain Mississippi State University (MSU) is advancing its commitment to ...

A North Dakota potato breeder brings in a speaker from Wyoming who has trained a dog to detect potato virus diseases using their nose. Andrea Parish of Dayton, Wyoming, sniffs bags of potato seed ...

AMERICAN FALLS, Idaho — Nearly 14 years after Joseph Pavek’s retirement from potato breeding, new and improved spud varieties still bear his fingerprints. While reading about new releases from the ...

Potatoes don't just magically happen. Good ones, Idaho-grown ones at least, are raised with love, care, and mad skills in science! They are the fourth most important crop in the world and a massive ...

Although college potatoes are popular as a representative snack using sweet potatoes, it is a little troublesome after cooking to use oil as it is made at home. It is easy to make such university pot ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Students in tank tops with sunscreen-dotted noses walked down the rows of a potato field, ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — The Indigenous people of the Andes were the first to domesticate the potato, making the starch-rich crop a dietary staple for this high-altitude population long before it spread to the ...

POCATELLO, Idaho—“Putting Sustainability into Practice” is the theme of the University of Idaho’s 42nd Annual Potato Conference Jan. 20-21 in Pocatello. Participants will learn how to more efficiently ...