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PEI Potato Board Elects New Chairman
The Prince Edward Island Potato Board has a new executive as a result of its Dec. 4 board of directors meeting. Boyd Rose of Elmira, was elected as the new chairman of the board.
Basic American Foods Plans to Eliminate 65 Positions
Basic American Foods announced Monday they are consolidating their production facilities in Eastern Idaho by laying off 65 positions in Shelley along with cost reductions at the Rexburg and Blackfoot production facilities and the central distribution... more
Schafer Names Promotion Board Members
Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer has appointed 31 growers to serve on the National Potato Promotion Board.
‘Tater’ Film Captures Vanishing Way of Life
Brenda Jepson likes to make films about ways of life that are disappearing. So when a friend told her she should make a documentary about hand-picking potatoes, a way of harvesting spuds that, for the most part, has vanished, Jepson jumped at the opp... more
Thousand of Dollars in Equipment Lost in Blackfoot Potato Cellar Fire
Thousands of dollars in farm equipment is a total loss after a potato cellar caught fire Wednesday, Nov. 26, west of Blackfoot. Idaho Falls News 8... more
Potato Pioneer Stuck in Field Trials
Tony Conner is celebrating 20 years in genetic modification. The plant geneticist at Crop and Food Research remembers the first modified potatoes - with marker genes - planted at the crown research institute. New Zealand Herald... more
Thousands Pick Up Free Vegetables on Colo. Farm
A farm couple got a huge surprise when they opened their fields to anyone who wanted to pick up free vegetables left over after the harvest - 40,000 people showed up. WJLA-TV... more
U.S. Farms: Fecund in ’09
Although the tightened global credit market prompted companies across sectors to trim sales guidance, the farming sector is expected to remain fertile since global food stocks are low and demand is expected to be robust in the coming year. Forbes... more
Farm Bureau not Hopeful on Immigration Reform
Immigration reform is a top priority of the American Farm Bureau, but it probably won?t be a top priority of President Barack Obama?s administration or a more-Democratic Congress, a bureau official says. The Wenatchee World Online... more
Farm Families: Passing on the Land
In that still rustic corner of Vermont known as the Northeast Kingdom, you see plenty of silos and hardly any condos. Herds of cattle graze by dirt roads. VPR... more
