Acadia Russet: A new potato cultivar with excellent appearance and good culinary quality

Acadia Russet produces oblong, smooth, slightly russeted tubers, that have excellent and uniform type and appearance and Kennebec table quality. This cultivar is well adapted to the Canadian Maritime Provinces, is similar to Kennebec in yield and later in maturity. Its type, appearance, yield, grade-out and quality should make it competitive with other cultivars in the count box trade and the fresh market.