Barrett Potato Farms

06/29/2020

For Barrett Potato Farms, 2020's potato crop marks our 111th year of growing and selling potatoes on the fresh market.

We can't thank you enough for your continued support and to kick off this season, we'd like to take a look back at Summer 2019 and the incredible team of people that made it a success.

"We Back"

In 1909, Fred Barrett planted our first crop of potatoes in Wendell, Idaho. Superb growing conditions and business opportunities led him to Texas in 1940 and…

06/27/2020

2020 harvest is underway!!
Unfortunately, due to COVID-19 concerns, we are not offering sales to the public this year to minimize exposures to our employees.
Stay safe and eat more potatoes!!

03/20/2020

We’re planting (and social distancing) at Barrett Potato Farms.

04/29/2019

Is there nothing the potato can’t do? Your move rice.

“A giant potato in Idaho has been turned into an Airbnb, and you can rent it for $200 a night https://t.co/bwgAV2R06H”

07/13/2018

We had another successful Potato Field Day today! Our thanks to the Texas A&M Potato Breeding Program for co-hosting with us! Thanks to CPS and Soil Mender/Redox for sponsoring lunch! And thanks to all who attended! So many potato varieties, so little time.

04/22/2018

If only the whole world were as wise as the Peruvian mountain people. Lots of recipe ideas in this article for others who exalt the potato.

The cookbook author Madhur Jaffrey travels to the crop’s ancient home and finds new inspiration from Andean cooks.

12/08/2017

I’ve always thought the potato deserved the Nobel Peace Prize. A recent study by the National Bureau of Economic Research shows I was right!

Studying the introduction of potatoes from the Americas to the Old World after the Columbian Exchange finds that their introduction reduced conflict for roughly two centuries, from

This paper provides evidence of the long-run effects of a permanent increase in agricultural productivity on conflict. We construct a newly digitized and geo-referenced dataset of battles in Europe, the Near East and North Africa covering the period between 1400 and 1900 CE. For variation in permane...