Potato Harvest to be Stretched Out Due to Extended Planting Season

At East Grand Forks, Casey Folson is pleased with the potato crop. However, “we’ve had enough rain so the fields are pretty saturated but if we can get this stretch of sunny, dry weather here I think there’s definitely some crop potential out there.” Like much of the region, Folson Farms is dealing with a lot of variability in maturity. “Different fields are at different stages depending on their plant date. Our planting got stretched out, spread out over a longer period of time because of the wet spring. We have stuff that’s blooming and closing rows and other stuff that’s only a few inches out of the ground.”