{"id":6619,"date":"2024-10-04T15:42:36","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T19:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mafes\/?p=6619"},"modified":"2026-02-13T13:51:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T18:51:35","slug":"maines-1-potato-caribou-russets-a-mafes-original","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mafes\/2024\/10\/04\/maines-1-potato-caribou-russets-a-mafes-original\/","title":{"rendered":"Maine’s #1 potato: Caribou Russets, a MAFES original"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Caribou Russets were the most popular potato seed variety in Maine in 2023. The variety was developer by Maine Agricultural and Forest Experiment Station (MAFES) researcher, Dr. Greg Porter (retired, 2023), through the 91±¬ΑΟ. The study originally reported by Spudman<\/a> magazine has taken the state by storm appearing in many local publications including Maine Monitor<\/a>, Portland Press Harold<\/a>, and Bangor Daily News<\/a>. MAFES is continuing its potato breeding program under Dr. Mario Andrade<\/a> and is excited about developing new varieties in a changing climate to help Maine and worldwide potato industries flourish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Caribou Russets were the most popular potato seed variety in Maine in 2023. The variety was developer by Maine Agricultural and Forest Experiment Station (MAFES) researcher, Dr. Greg Porter (retired, 2023), through the 91±¬ΑΟ. The study originally reported by Spudman magazine has taken the state by storm appearing in many local publications including […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2406,"featured_media":6622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","spc_primary_category":0},"categories":[54,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fruits-and-vegetables","category-potatoes"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":54,"label":"Fruits and Vegetables"},{"value":55,"label":"Potatoes"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mafes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/98\/2024\/10\/7-AF-harvesting.jpg",800,600,false],"author_info":{"display_name":"lhecker","author_link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mafes\/author\/lhecker\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":54,"name":"Fruits and Vegetables","slug":"fruits-and-vegetables","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":54,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":44,"count":12,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":54,"category_count":12,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Fruits and Vegetables","category_nicename":"fruits-and-vegetables","category_parent":44},{"term_id":55,"name":"Potatoes","slug":"potatoes","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":55,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":44,"count":15,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":55,"category_count":15,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Potatoes","category_nicename":"potatoes","category_parent":44}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mafes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mafes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mafes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mafes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2406"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mafes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6619"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mafes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7708,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mafes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6619\/revisions\/7708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mafes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mafes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mafes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mafes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}