Planting potatoes under the wrong weather conditions can result in your plants becoming damaged or even dying, so is fall the right season for your crops?

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 ...

Although potatoes are usually grown in the spring, the cool weather of fall may also be a good time to plant these varieties, ...

Q: Right around last Thanksgiving I had three potatoes and lots of vines. I just dug a hole at the end of my garden. About a month ago something started to come out of the ground. They have taken over ...

As Red River Valley dryland potato farmers expected, the 2021 drought reduced their crop’s yields. The dry conditions lowered the Red River Valley dryland potato crop yields, which mostly are fresh ...

Thomas Shephard's favorite part of harvest is the people he does it alongside as there are a lot of jobs to do and the people who he works with are the ones who get it done. Thomas Shephard of ...

LARIMORE, N.D. — The toll that hot dry weather took on the Red River Valley 2021 potato crop won’t be visible until harvest begins in a few weeks, but it’s already clear it has affected yields and ...

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.

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 ...