PRESQUE ISLE, Maine — Out with the old, in with the tubers. The Maine Potato Board says a new variety of potato will be available to consumers at the upcoming Maine Harvest Festival in Bangor. The new potato is called the Caribou Russet and it was first announced last spring. The potato board says the […]
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Maine potato harvest, delayed by heat, gets underway
PRESQUE ISLE, Maine — Maine is known for fickle weather, but potato farmers have little to complain about this season. The harvest is underway in earnest this week with sunny skies in Aroostook County, which is home to the vast majority of Maine’s 52,000 acres of potatoes. Temperatures in the 80s late last week had […]
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Federal farm bill to impact potato, dairy, blueberry industry in Maine
PRESQUE ISLE — President Barack Obama on Friday signed a $956 billion farm bill that is expected to give a boost to farmers in Maine but includes cuts to the food stamp program. Obama signed the bill at Michigan State University during a speech in which he spoke of the benefits of a thriving agricultural […]
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Monticello woman is first female, youngest farmer to be named young potato farmer of the year
MONTICELLO — Growing up on her family farm, Sara Corey was tattooed with the tokens of the Aroostook County potato harvest. Each September and October, she collected the dust from the potato fields under her fingernails, drank in the smell of dirt and mud, and learned to position her back just right to ignore the […]
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23-year-old woman is named Young Farmer of the Year in Maine
MONTICELLO (AP) — The Maine Potato Board has selected a 23-year-old woman as its 2013 young farmer of the year. Officials say Sara Corey of Monticello is the first woman to receive the award. She’s also the youngest recipient of the award. Growing up on a farm in Monticello, Corey worked the potato harvest throughout […]
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Maine potato fields backdrop for feature film
PORTLAND (AP) — The filmmakers who won critical acclaim for their documentary focusing on the troop greeters at Bangor International Airport are again using Maine as a backdrop. The first feature film by Aron Gaudet and Gita Pullapilly is set among the blue potato farms in Van Buren in northern Maine. “Beneath the Harvest Sky” […]
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Two people killed in head-on crash on Route 108 in Canton
CANTON — A Dixfield couple was killed Thursday when their station wagon collided head-on with a loaded potato truck on Route 108. Howard Child and his wife, Carrie Child, were killed at about 1 p.m. when their Subaru Legacy veered into the path of a dump truck in front of the Victorian Villa Rehabilitation and […]