What's happening in the field?

At the Missouri State Fruit Experiment Station

Digging potatoes

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Randy Stout and Tom Barker dug up the LaSoda potatoes in the high tunnel today. The cabbage was harvested last week.

Tom (left) and Randy dig the LaSoda potatoes.
Tom (left) and Randy dig the LaSoda potatoes.
You can see them at the surface even before digging with the fork.
You can see them at the surface even before digging with the fork.
As Randy digs, Tom puts the taters in a 5 gallon bucket.
As Randy digs, Tom puts the taters in a 5 gallon bucket.
Here are the potatoes from the first row.
Here are the potatoes from the first row.
After harvest, the buckets are poured out over nursery cloth.
After harvest, the buckets are poured out over nursery cloth.
Then they are rinsed off.
Then they are rinsed off.