Funding research, educating public among jobs of potato commissions
Oregon Potato Commissioner Rob Wagstaff serves potatoes at the baked potato bar at the annual Washington-Oregon Potato Conference in Kennewick last week.
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Potential future farmers show off some of the goodies from the Washington-Oregon Potato Conference last week in Kennewick.
A vendor chats with a customer at the potato conference, sponsored by the potato commissions from Washington and Oregon.
Attendees at the potato conference dig into the baked potatoes served by Washington, Oregon and Idaho potato commissioners.
Bags of swag in hand, Washington-Oregon potato conference attendees take a lunch break
KENNEWICK — Look at the pictures, and farming seems timeless: tractors and dramatic sunsets and all that. But like all other industries, farming is subject to change — and in the last half-century those changes have been big ones. Potato farmers, like farmers and growers in every other agriculture sector, have had to adapt and change with the times.
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