Staff photo by Dean Brickey Olga Garcilazo of McNary snaps a clear plastic bag onto a machine at South Basin Packing in Umatilla moments before the device rotates to fill the bag with freshly dug ...

HOOPLE, North Dakota — A fourth-generation potato farming and marketing family in North Dakota is leaping into a new era of electronic potato grading. The Hall family partnership of Hoople in ...

Potatoes will now be packaged in 50-kilogram bags from the farm, effectively enabling farmers to earn a better value of the product and an opportunity to sell it through cooperatives. Previously, ...

Potatoes will now be packaged in 50-kilogram bags from the farm, effectively enabling farmers to earn a better value of the product and an opportunity to sell it through cooperatives. Previously, ...