That’s one hot potato. A Canadian farmer has taken social media by starchy storm, posting now-viral videos of his life on a potato farm that have resulted in hundreds and thousands of views and ...

Editor's note: Katie Pinke will be checking up with Thomas Shephard throughout the growing season as part of our Follow a Farmer series. CRYSTAL, N.D. — After a slow start this spring, things are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Potatoes come from Idaho. Everybody knows that, right? Not so fast, Spud. A Frito-Lay commercial scheduled to air during Sunday's ...

HEGINS, Pa. — To a random passerby, this might look like empty farmland, but you have to dig to get to the gold on these acres in Schuylkill County. "So we grow up to 10 varieties commercially, and we ...

HOOPLE, North Dakota — A fourth-generation potato farming and marketing family in North Dakota is leaping into a new era of electronic potato grading. The Hall family partnership of Hoople in ...

PLEASANT VALLEY, Idaho — Potato farmer Tanner Funk feared a weather-related repeat of each of the last two years. “When I saw frost on my truck windshield, I almost didn’t want to go dig in the fields ...

There's a surprising amount of science in a bag of potato chips.Researchers have spent decades developing potatoes for chip makers that can grow in all kinds of climates, avoid diseases and pests, sit ...

When a new variety of potato called the Caribou Russet was released in 2015, it became the top seed potato variety planted in Maine. Developing a new potato variety typically takes 10 to 12 years. The ...