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  • Michigan Potatoes

    Potatoes are Michigan’s leading produce commodity, generating $178.7 million in farm gate sales in 2016 and nearly 2 billion pounds of potatoes harvested from as far south as Monroe County to as far north as Iron County in the Upper Peninsula. Michigan is the nation’s leading producer of potatoes for potato chip processing. Montcalm is the largest potato production county in Michigan.*

  • Investing in Seed Potatoes

    The Michigan potato industry brings in roughly $160 million dollars at the farm gate. The state is also considered one of the top producers of potatoes used for potato chips.

  • 2006 Michigan Potatoes USA Report

    Published on January 2, 2007
    In 2006 the Potato Outreach Program compiled these results of the SNAC International varieties performance in Michigan.

  • 2010 Michigan Potatoes USA Report

    Published on January 2, 2011
    In 2010 the Potato Outreach Program compiled these results of the SNAC International varieties performance in Michigan.

  • 2005 Michigan Potatoes USA Report

    Published on January 2, 2006
    In 2005 the Potato Outreach program compiled these results of the SNAC International varieties performance in Michigan.

  • 2008 Michigan Potatoes USA Report

    Published on January 2, 2009
    In 2008 the Potato Outreach Program compiled these results of the SNAC International varieties performance in Michigan.

  • 2017 Michigan Potatoes USA Report

    Published on January 2, 2018
    In 2017 the Potato Outreach Program compiled these results of the SNAC International varieties in Michigan.

  • 2016 Michigan Potatoes USA Report

    Published on January 2, 2017
    In 2016 the Potato Outreach Program compiled these results of the SNAC International varieties in Michigan.

  • 2015 Michigan Potatoes USA Report

    Published on January 2, 2016
    In 2015 the Potato Outreach Program compiled these results of the SNAC International varieties performance in Michigan.

  • 2014 Michigan Potatoes USA Report

    Published on January 2, 2015
    In 2014 the Potato Outreach Program compiled these results of the SNAC International varieties performance in Michigan.

  • 2009 Michigan Potatoes USA Report

    Published on January 2, 2010
    In 2009 the Potato Outreach Program compiled these results of the SNAC International varieties performance in Michigan.

  • 2011 Michigan Potatoes USA Report

    Published on January 2, 2012
    In 2011 the Potato Outreach Program compiled these results of the SNAC International varieties performance in Michigan.

  • 2013 Michigan Potatoes USA Report

    Published on January 2, 2014
    In 2013 the Potato Outreach Program compiled these results of the SNAC International varieties performance in Michigan.

  • 2007 Michigan Potatoes USA Report

    Published on January 2, 2008
    In 2007 the Potato Outreach Program compiled these results of the SNAC International varieties performance in Michigan.

  • 2012 Michigan Potatoes USA Report

    Published on January 2, 2013
    In 2012 the Potato Outreach Program compiled these results of the SNAC International varieties performance in Michigan.

  • 2004 Michigan Potatoes USA Report

    Published on January 2, 2005
    In 2004 the Potato Outreach Program compiled these results of the SNAC International varieties performance in Michigan

  • 2018 Michigan Potatoes USA SNAC Report

    Published on December 28, 2018
    In 2018 the Potato Outreach Program compiled these results of the SNAC International varieties in Michigan.

  • 2012 Michigan Potatoes Out of Storage Report

    Published on January 3, 2013
    In 2012 the Potato Outreach Program compiled these results of the SNAC International varieties storage performance in Michigan.

  • MSU's purple potatoes promote partnership

    Dave Douches, director of the MSU Potato Breeding and Genetics program, partnered with Great Lakes Potato Chip company to produce limited-edition purple potato chips from the Blackberry potato, a variety developed by the university’s Potato Breeding and Genetics program.

  • Volunteer potatoes

    Published on May 20, 2010

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