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Bag it up: Consumers love packaged potatoes, Maine growers say
Bag it up: Consumers love packaged potatoes, Maine growers say

Maine potato growers say shoppers perceive consumer bags — especially one size in particular — as a convenient, value-priced way to purchase potatoes.

Produce Crops
Strong harvest follows rainy start for Maine potatoes
Strong harvest follows rainy start for Maine potatoes

Some rainy weather disrupted the start of Maine’s fall potato harvest, but digging seemed to be progressing satisfactorily by late September.

Tom Burfield
Produce Crops
Green Thumb Farms looks for strong crop, highlights variety identity in marketing efforts
Green Thumb Farms looks for strong crop, highlights variety identity in marketing efforts

The Maine crop was harvested and under cover with great quality, said Mike Hart, director of sales and marketing for Fryeburg, Maine-based Green Thumb Farms Inc.

Tom Karst
Produce Crops
Cambridge Farms sees improved Maine potato crop
Cambridge Farms sees improved Maine potato crop

All the elements are in place for a great year for the Maine potato supply from Presque Isle-based Cambridge Farms.

Tom Karst
Produce Crops
Maine potato growers look to good year
Maine potato growers look to good year

2021 is a vintage year for Maine potatoes, industry leaders believe.

Tom Karst
Vegetables
Cambridge Farms sees buyers, sellers as partners
Cambridge Farms sees buyers, sellers as partners

Cambridge Farms works with potato growers throughout the East Coast region and works with markets for major growers in Maine.

Tom Karst
Vegetables
2019 could be banner year for Maine’s potato deal
2019 could be banner year for Maine’s potato deal

This could be the year that East Coast retailers have a new appreciation for Maine potatoes.

Tom Karst
Vegetables
Maine potato acreage, production up this season
Maine potato acreage, production up this season

An increase in planted area and harvested area highlight the Maine potato crop, according to the first potato crop forecast from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Tom Karst
Produce Crops
Fresh from the Start Maine broccoli continues into October

Fresh from the Start’s Maine broccoli harvest is going strong.

Chris Koger