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March 9, 2017 —Two years after a humble potato patch co-starred in “The Martian,” scientists have found that fictional astronaut Mark Watney’s strategy for surviving on the Red Planet could…

A co-creator of the party game Cards Against Humanity is planning to bombard the office of US senator Ron Johnson with potatoes, after the Wisconsin Republican sent a “cease and…

Federal law enforcement officials searched three facilities of heavy machinery manufacturer Caterpillar Inc on Thursday, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney Office for the Central District of Illinois said, prompting…

Research and Markets has announced a new report on the potato chip market:  “Potato Chips Market: Global Industry Trends, Share, Size, Growth, Opportunity and Forecast 2017 – 2022” . The global…

By Sam Shilts  Wisconsin is known as the dairy state, but you may not know that we also rank 3rd in the nation in potato production.The “Spudmobile” mobile classroom made a…

GRAND FORKS, N.D. — Potatoes — which boosters describe as “America’s favorite vegetable” — are going on the offensive after years of fighting defensively “We used to say, ‘It’s OK…

By Joe Duggan / World-Herald Bureau LINCOLN — Gov. Pete Ricketts backed away Wednesday from a proposal to repeal Nebraska’s potato tax. The governor’s response came after his bill got…

This harvest came 3,000 years too late. Hundreds of blackened potatoes were pulled out of the ground at a prehistoric garden in British Columbia, Canada. Dating back to 3,800 years…