Idaho Truffle Growers Form Association

Famous for its potatoes, Paul Beckman hopes Idaho will one day be known for a very different sort of tuber.

The Treasure Valley-based grower has been trying to cultivate truffles — an underground fungus from the genus Tuber — for more than a decade with admittedly mixed results.

“It’s a strange crop,” he said. “Most of the time, you’re trying to guess what will work.”

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