Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Potato maturity depends on the variety, ranging from about 110 days for early types to over 120 days for late ones. Key harvest ...

The red potato harvest has begun at Black Gold Farms’ operation in Winamac, Indiana, located about 2 hours south of Chicago and the same distance north of Indianapolis. Focusing exclusively on red ...

GRAND FORKS, N.D. - It's too early to say exactly how many potatoes the Red River Valley will produce this year, but it looks much more promising than 2016, the head of an area growers organization ...

Associated Potato Growers Inc. is one of the largest potato packing cooperatives in the Midwest, marketing yellow and red potatoes – in a variety of bag sizes – to buyers across the United States. The ...

Growing potatoes is a rewarding gardening endeavor that even beginner gardeners can successfully undertake. But if you missed planting these tubers in spring, there's still time to enjoy them before ...

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.

In most cases, the home gardener times their potato (Solanum tuberosum) crop to be ready for harvest in late summer. That means planting potatoes, which are cool-season vegetables, in the ground in ...

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 ...