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A New Arrangement for Potato Production

When Idaho farmers started making the state famous for its potatoes, they seeded their crops in ridged rows and watered the plants by channeling surface irrigation to flow through the furrows between the rows. But even though most commercial potato producers in the Pacific Northwest now irrigate their crops with sprinklers, they still typically use ridged-row planting systems.

To read more about this recent study on more efficient water management go to http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/AR/archive/sep11/potato0911.htm.

Originally posted Monday, Sep. 12, 2011