I have to share this terrific photo, sent to me by Laura Krouse from Abbe Hills Farm in Iowa. What a great way of displaying […]

I had a wonderful week traveling across North Dakota, Minnesota and Wisconsin. My drive from the western border of North Dakota back to Madison in […]

In the last few weeks I have been on the road in Wisconsin, visiting almost all of the Wisconsin farms and gardens involved in this […]

EDIT: Today, a finding of late blight was confirmed on potato in Adams County, Wisconsin. If you are a potato or tomato grower in the […]

One of our research sites is at the community gardens in Eagle Heights, at the west edge of the UW-Madison campus. We were planning to […]

We have almost finished planting our potato trials for the year – just one more, a trial of no-till organic potatoes. More on that another […]

In our on-farm variety trials, we generally ask that collaborating farmers use their usual seed-piece spacing for the trial, but to use the same spacing […]

Hello all! Despite the lingering snowstorms and cold weather, we are ramping up to send potato tubers out in another week or so! Amy and […]

I have put together descriptions for some of the varieties that are available for variety trialing this year. I gleaned the descriptions from our own […]

Hello and happy March! I know we’re 8 days into it, but I am still surprised that it’s here. I guess all the snow keeps […]