Longtime Maine Potato Board Executive Director Don Flannery holds up a bag ready for Caribou Russets at Irving Farms in Caribou, Maine. The variety was developed by the University of Maine and seed is grown at Porter Seed Farm. Photo: Zeke Jennings
Potato plants a few weeks prior to harvest at Porter Seed Farm in August 2019. Photo: Zeke Jennings
Potato plants growing inside the tissue culture lab at Porter Seed Farm in Aroostook County, Maine. Photo: Zeke Jennings
Potato plants a few weeks prior to harvest at Porter Seed Farm in August 2019. Photo: Zeke Jennings
Porter Seed Farm in Masardis, Maine. Photo: Zeke Jennings
One of the older structures at Porter Seed Farm, which was purchased by the Maine Seed Potato Board in 1947. Photo Zeke Jennings
Inside the greenhouse at Porter Seed Farm in Masardis, Maine. Photo: Zeke Jennings
Maine Potato Board Agronomist Jake Dyer surveys the crop at Porter Seed Farm in 2019. Photo: Zeke Jennings
Jake Dyer, head of agronomy and variety of development for the Maine Potato Board. Photo: Zeke Jennings
Greg Porter, University of Maine Professor of Crop Ecology and Management, heads the UMaine potato breeding program, which has trial fields in Presque Isle. Photo: Zeke Jennings
