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Cultivar Corner: Fenway Red is a mid-season variety with high yields
Fenway Red is a round tuber with a beautiful deep and rich red skin with contrasting white flesh. This all-purpose variety has the perfect texture... READ MORE »
A look at some up-and-coming cultivars available to potato growers
Spudman regularly showcases up-and-coming cultivar varieties available to potato growers. Here is a list of some of our recent Cultivar Corner segment... READ MORE »
Cultivar Corner: Malou shows good resistance to key diseases
Malou is a large yellow variety that has shown good resistance to some key potato diseases, including PVY, common scab and early blight. It has shown ... READ MORE »
Cultivar Corner: Natascha is an early, high-yielding yellow potato with great taste
Natascha is an early, high-yielding, cooking-type yellow potato with excellent taste. The variety has attractive, long oval tubers with shallow eyes a... READ MORE »
Cultivar Corner: Yukon Gem is a better-yielding, disease-resistant Yukon Gold type
Yukon Gem is a variety similar to Yukon Gold, which was used in the breeding process, but Gem has better yield and size distribution than Gold. Overv... READ MORE »
Cultivar Corner: Rocky Mountain Russets are attractive tubers with high yield potential
Rocky Mountain Russet, a Colorado State University cultivar, are attractive tubers with high yield potential and resistance to many common potato plan... READ MORE »
Petoskey is a chipper with common scab resistance, good long-term storage potential
Petoskey (MSV030-4) has excellent chip processing quality out of the field and long-term chip quality with high specific gravity and resistance to com... READ MORE »
Rainier Russet has attractive culinary, nutritional qualities (with video)
Rainier Russet is a high-yielding, medium to late dual purpose potato variety with long dormancy. Overview Parentage: A99134-1 x Canela Russet ... READ MORE »
Cultivar Corner: Erika’s traits include common scab, black dot resistance and cooking profile
Erika is an early-maturing yellow-skin yellow-fleshed variety. It produces shallow eyed, long-oval tubers with excellent flavor and firm cooking textu... READ MORE »
Cultivar Corner: Galena Russet is a high-yielding, french fry processing variety
Overview Parentage: A98083-9 x Premier Russet Developer: Northwest Potato Variety Development Program (PVMI) Plant Variety Protection: Applied ... READ MORE »
