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Portage Potatoes

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Portage Potatoes are oval with light-buff skin.

They were marketed as all-purpose for direct to consumer sales.

Early harvest.

No longer in commercial production as of 2006.

History Notes

Portage Potatoes were developed jointly by the Campbell Institute for Research and Technology (Camden, New Jersey) and the University of Maine from a cross between Raritan potatoes and a potato referred to as “BR6831-5.”

Tagged With: All-Purpose Potatoes, American Potatoes, Joseph Campbell

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