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 ...

Students get a look behind the scenes at Gross Farms, which donated more than 500 potatoes to Wilder High School.

Potatoes, presidential politics, football and the economy, not necessarily in that order, dominated presentations during the Idaho Potato Commission’s (IPC) annual Harvest meeting on November 13 at ...

If a few pioneers hadn't gotten lost on their way to planting potatoes in Utah, Idaho might not be considered the potato-growing capital of the United States. After being sent north to replicate the ...

An open bag of potato chips, its contents spilling forth. - Aleksandr Zubkov/Getty Images If you know one thing about Idaho, it's that it is the potato capital of America. (If you know two things, ...

Every harvest season is a reminder of where our food begins: in the soil, cared for by the hands of dedicated farmers. This ...

Idaho farmers struggle as farm input costs stay high and crop prices plunge. Net farm income has dropped 30% in two years, squeezing rural livelihoods.

Recent extended warm weather and mostly good soil moisture aided Idaho potato planting, which nears its conclusion as mid-May approaches. Some rain hit the state’s northeastern growing area recently, ...

BOISE, Idaho -- Idaho growers are harvesting nearly 8 percent fewer potatoes this fall than a year ago, and although that has bolstered optimism about prices, some producers are afraid supplies will ...