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Workers at a Twin Falls potato processing plant are claiming the company is trying to bust up a bid to join a local branch of the Teamsters Union next…
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Researchers at Idaho State University have programmed drones to be able to identify potatoes infected with a virus.Researchers say they've been able to…
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture has approved commercial planting of two types of potatoes that are genetically engineered to resist the pathogen that…
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Despite Idaho’s “world famous” potatoes, the International Potato Center is actually in Lima, Peru. After all, that's the part of the world where the…
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A federal judge has denied a request by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to dismiss a lawsuit by eastern Idaho potato growers seeking to end a…
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture has approved a potato genetically engineered to resist the pathogen that caused the Irish potato famine and that still…
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Idaho-based J.R. Simplot Company is seeking federal approval to market a second genetically engineered potato.Simplot won approval for its first modified…
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People have been farming — and eating — a GMO for thousands of years without knowing it. Scientists have found genes from bacteria in sweet potatoes around the world. So who made the GMO?
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A Western Oregon mail order company has begun selling what might become the No. 1 conversation starter of Northwest garden parties this summer.
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An agreement has been reached to build a new $2 million fertilizer plant in American Falls.The Idaho Statesman reports ConAgra Foods and Magnida also…