POTATO
Ahead with reds
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BUXTON, N.D. — It’s Christmas, and NoKota Packers Inc. is cranking out the reds, hoping to bring in some green to ring in the holidays. The reds, of course, are NoKota’s famous Red River Valley red potatoes.
By Mikkel Pates , December 24, 2012
Coming back to spuds
FARGO, N.D. — Andy Robinson doesn’t pretend to have all the answers. But he promises to do his best to get them.
By Jonathan Knutson , June 18, 2012
Congress brings global industry together
EDINBURGH, Scotland — Allan Parker, president of the World Potato Congress Inc., can’t tell you where in the world the next congress will be.
World Potato Congress Inc. is based in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, the first of eight congresses was held there in 1993.
By Mikkel Pates , June 18, 2012
Farming couple turns to unique varieties
NORTHUMBERLAND, England — Lucy and Anthony Carroll started Carroll’s Heritage Potatoes with two varieties in a garden in 2000.
Today, their Tiptoe Farm, a stone’s throw from Scotland, has grown to 60 acres of potatoes, including up to 16 acres of their single-largest variety.
By Mikkel Pates , June 18, 2012
'Tatty' talk
EAST LOTHIAN, Scotland — Luffness Mains farm has been growing “tatties” — the United Kingdom word for potatoes — since 1914.
Owner Allan Stevenson, chairman of the Potato Council of the United Kingdom, hosted a farm tour as part of the commercial/consumer tours associated with the World Potato Congress, May 27 to 30 in Edinburgh, Scotland.
By Mikkel Pates , June 18, 2012
Gudmestad educates about zebra complex
EDINBURGH, Scotland — Neil Gudmestad tells audiences he’d like to change the name of “zebra chip,” disease to “zebra complex.” But it seems the powers of an international potato disease expert have their limits.
By Mikkel Pates , June 11, 2012
Variety-specific marketing
EDINBURGH, Scotland — If you haven’t heard of Rooster potatoes, Gillian Kynoch wants to change that.
By Mikkel Pates , June 11, 2012
Spud 'congress'
EDINBURGH, Scotland — Potatoes have eyes, but it takes a world of people to see how a crop that came to Europe in 1536 (and the United States in 1719) will be environmentally and economically prosperous so it can help feed a hungry world in 2012 and beyond.
By Mikkel Pates , June 11, 2012
Sugar beets-to-ethanol
FARGO, N.D — With planting less than a month away, a company hoping to contract with farmers in 2012 to convert sugar beets into ethanol at a defunct corn-based ethanol plant in Grafton, N.D., has only about 400 acres of its 12,000-acre goal, officials say.
By Mikkel Pates , April 02, 2012
Vilsack defends USDA cuts
WASHINGTON — Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on March 30 defended the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s decision to close some Farm Service Agency county offices if they were within 20 miles of each other “as the crow flies,” and also the agency’s cuts to certain research programs.
By Jerry Hagstrom , April 02, 2012
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