What produce item is long, cylindrical, heavily netted and popular with consumers? If you guessed the Russet Burbank potato, you were correct. It became the most extensively farmed potato variety in the United States, especially in Idaho.
Basin Gold Cooperative and Sun-Glo will represent Fresh Solutions Network LLC at booth No. 512 at this week’s IFPA Foodservice Expo in Monterey, CA. They will be featuring A Cut Above fresh potatoes, select Idaho Russets, and a full range of onions (red, yellow and white). A Cut Above potatoes use select white and Russet potato varieties to yield consistently superior house-made baked, mashed, potato chips and French fries.
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After spending five years as a produce manager in the trenches and two years on the road as a district merchandiser, I was promoted into the procurement office as a junior buyer.
Harvest season is underway across the northwest, and farmers in some areas are seeing smaller spuds and onions due to excessive heat earlier this summer.