Potato Outreach Program

Beacon Chipper

is a high yielding, round white potato with an attractive round appearance and shallow eyes. It is tolerant to pressure bruise and mid-season heat stress.

Blackberry

is a high-yielding tablestock potato with uniform round tubers, distinctive purple skin and flesh, and resistance to common scab, making it attractive for retail, farm markets, and home gardens. It can also be chip-processed directly from the field for specialty markets.

Dundee

is a chip-processing potato with high specific gravity, uniform round tubers, and resistance to common scab, delivering excellent chip quality out of the field and after long-term storage.

Hodag (W5955-1)

is a long storage chipper with Common Scab resistance. Released by the University of Wisconsin potato breeding program in 2016, this variety tends to produce larger tubers and can be susceptible to hollow heart.

Huron Chipper (MSW485-2)

is a high yielding process potato with mid-season maturity. It has excellent chip quality both out of the field and after storage. This variety is resistant to late blight and tolerant to common scab.

Lamoka (NY139)

is a Cornell variety that exhibits late season maturity, strong resistance to common scab, and resistance to golden nematode Ro1.

Mackinaw (MSX540-4)

is resistant to PVY, late blight, and is tolerant to common scab. It has an average yield, high percentage of A-size tubers, and a high specific gravity. Mackinaw maintains chip-processing quality in storage.

Manistee (MSL292-A)

has round tubers with shallow eyes and an above average yield. This variety has long term storage potential and a specific gravity similar to Snowden.

Petoskey

is a high-yielding chip-processing potato with high specific gravity, uniform round tubers, and resistance to common scab. It offers excellent out-of-field and long-term storage chip quality, making it well suited for commercial processors.

Lady Liberty (Niagara, NY152)

has a high yield potential, high tuber set, and can be managed to produce tubers with a smaller size profile. It is tolerant to common scab with a low incidence of internal tuber defects. This variety maintains chip quality at 48°F in Michigan.