potatoes

There's something to be said for using what you have to problem-solve.

From an old episode of CBS Sunday Morning, Tim Sample takes us way up north to Aroostook County in the fall. The time of year when generations of kids were excused from school to help farms harvest the potatoes.

An Aroostook County truck driver and his passenger escaped injury early Monday morning after the tractor-trailer they were in went off the road and crashed in Fryeburg, Maine.

The four members of Maine's Congressional delegation say China could become a top market for American potatoes.

Maine Potato Blossom Festival

Two Aroostook County men were arrested and are facing theft charges after a lengthy investigation involving the theft of potatoes in the St. John Valley.

Here in the great potato-growing north, we’re used to separating the rocks from the potatoes at harvest time.  But one processing plant in the Netherlands this week saw a little more excitement than that.  Workers at a plant in Dronten found a World War II era hand grenade—its pin still intact—in a load of potatoes.

Gregory Cousins, 22, was seriously injured on Wednesday while working at the County Farms LLC potato house in Mapleton.

U.S. Senator Susan Collins made a visit to the White House on Tuesday and she presented the Deputy Assistant to the President, Ed Pagano, with an awesome gift.