Members of the North Dakota and Minnesota potato industry have helped to establish a $1.5 million endowed professorship for Susie Thompson, a North Dakota State University potato breeder. Thompson in ...

Idaho growers face a threat from diseases harming potato quality and impacting profits. USDA grants fund research to tackle the growing problem.

KENOSHA — An assistant professor of chemistry at Carthage College has received nearly half a million dollars to study a virus that affects up to 80% of the world’s potato crops.