Kale has nothing on a certain modern day superfood — a sweet potato that just won what is essentially the "Nobel Prize" of the food and agriculture world. This isn't your average spud — the ...

Each year, the World Food Prize Foundation honors individuals who contributed to “improving the quality, quantity, or availability of food throughout the world.” This year’s laureates include a team ...

TIYN: Health Care Vigil at Lloyd Square Park, Famous Idaho Potato Bowl hosting its annual Tackle Hunger event, and Lights for ...

Washington State and Utah State are taking their rivalry off the field and into the community as they team up to fight hunger ...

The thirteen Potato Queen contestants at the 57th annual Munger Potato Festival had a lot of questions to answer on stage outside Merritt Township Hall on Thursday night. They spoke about who they ...

Despite its storied history, sweetpotato has received relative little attention from crop improvement research. More than 95 percent of the global sweetpotato crop is grown in developing countries, ...

New research has shown that a strain of genetically-modified potato appears to be immune to the devastating fungus responsible for the famine of 1845. Late blight, caused by the organism Phytophthora ...

Scientists at J.R. Simplot Company developed a potato genetically engineered to resist the late blight that destroyed crops of potatoes in Ireland in the 1840s and 1850s leading to the Irish Potato ...

I'm not a sour cream guy; never got it and never will. Keep it away from my Mexican food, potatoes, everything. Which was why I got a good talking-to when I ordered four stuffed potatoes — hold the ...