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Archive Home > 2008 > October > 01 > Searching for the next big spud

Searching for the next big spud

Researchers in Powell Butte hope to develop varieties that will one day end up on your plate

By Jeff McDonald / The Bulletin
October 1, 2008

POWELL BUTTE — Researchers dug up thousands of potatoes Tuesday, looking for the next Umatilla Russet.

That’s the name of a potato variety that researchers picked out of these fields in the 1980s. The potato is now the sixth most planted variety in the industry, said Steve....

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