Graduate student Nathaniel Sands works to hill potatoes on a piece of equipment manufactured 40 years before he was born.

Everyone in the lab chips in to assist with fieldwork. Yours truly displaying his abilities as a lawnmower jockey.

Potato research fields in late July 2001. 'Russet Burbank,' 'Butte Russet,' and 'All Blue' varieties are shown.

When you have to grade over 4,000 lbs of potatoes the students can get a little giddy from time to time.