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Past, Present and Prospects of the Potato Industry in Maine

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 July 2020

Edward F. Johnston
Edward F. Johnston*
Affiliation:
Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Maine
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The principle potato producing portion of the State of Maine is located in Aroostook County adjacent to the boundary line which politically separates Maine and New Brunswick. A “natural home” for the potato, this area posesses a combination of climatic and soil features that has favored cultivation of the product to the extent that the area has become known as “The Potato Empire Of The East” for the past 52 years, over 80 percent of Maine's crop has come from Aroostook. For several years between 1920 and 1958, Aroostook County alone grew more potatoes than any other state except Maine. To speak of the potato industry in Maine is to refer primarily to Aroostook.

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Agricultural Production and Land Use
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Journal of the Northeastern Agricultural Economics Council , Volume 1 , October 1972 , pp. 148 - 157
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Copyright © Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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