Potato Varieties For Alsum Farms

Agata is a very early maturing, yellow skinned, yellow fleshed variety with an attractive bright skin. Agata produces high yields of uniform shaped tubers and is known for its high pack-out.

Caribou Russet is gaining popularity as a dual purpose potato that delivers classic russet flavors; its great mashed, fried or baked. It performs well under dry land conditions with excellent early vine development and plant vigor and is very heat and drought tolerant.

Cerisa is an elongated baby potato variety producing high numbers of smaller tubers per hill.Space whole seed potatoes approximately 25-30 cm (10″-12″) apart.Cerisa is a mid-season variety maturing in about 85-95 days.This variety is excellent for growing in containers and gardens.It will grow well even in smaller pots or grow bags.

This variety is a cross between Marabel and AR 93-1243, an Agrico Research seedling. Marabel is a major consumer variety in Germany. This is the first successful variety for breeder Jan Lucas Spijkman.

Goldrush is a medium maturing russet cultivar grown primarily for the fresh market.

Mimi is a productive creamer variety producing a high number of round uniform tubers. It has an attractive light red skin and creamy flesh with great cooking characteristics. The plant canopy on variety Mimi is relatively small and therefore requires some extra agronomic attention to maximize results.

Red Norland is a red-skinned, white-fleshed cultivar with a primary use for salads, very good for boiling. However, it can also be good for making french fries and potato chips but is not good for baking.

This attractive, early-maturing russet potato variety was selected for its wide adaptability including Texas and many other regions in the United States. Selection was targeted to tolerance of drastic weather conditions, taste, appearance and high marketable-count tubers.

Russet Norkotah is an early to medium maturing (95-110 days from planting), determinate potato variety. Some key management characteristics are: medium-sized upright vine resulting in about 85% row closure.

Silverton Russet is a high-yielding, medium- to late-maturing russet variety developed for both fresh and processing markets, particularly French fries.

The origin of 'Yellow Star' is the result of a cross made in 2001 between 'Fianna' and 'Yukon Gold' at Northern Konstar Seedpotatoes Ltd.