The San Luis Valley is a haven for agriculture, producing a veritable cornucopia of staple products such as head lettuce, alfalfa and barley, as well as potatoes. Crops are generally professionally irrigated, using water from deep aquifers burgeoning with clean, crisp runoff from alpine streams.

The San Luis Valley itself is a large alpine valley, striking with dunes and high hills and mountain air. It is about 122 miles long and 74 miles wide, bordered on the northwest by the great Continental Divide and New Mexico on the south.

San Luis Valley is famous for its Great Sand Dunes, which soar up to 750 feet in elevation, as high as a mountain themselves, though the Rocky Mountains rise far above, at around 14,000 feet. For generations the San Luis Valley was home to the Ute Indians, and has always been an agrarian Mecca for both small and large ranchers and farmers.

The Colorado Potato Growers and Shippers group is considered to have had its own germination around 1875, when potatoes became a prime crop in the San Luis Valley. Since then, Colorado Potato Grows have flourished, achieving the status of the second largest shipper of fresh potatoes in the nation.

This group has won recognition worldwide for their forward reaching potato breeding program, which cultivates new potato varieties and other innovations. Along with their technical achievements, Colorado Potato Growers are renowned for their longstanding commitment to constancy and friendly service.

Consumers benefit from this fortunate combination of outstanding product and dependable customer service, with a consistent year-round delivery of excellence from one of the most beautiful areas in the world. From their famous russets, to the deep red, white-fleshed red potatoes, to the nutty Yukon Gold and the rising star of the Valley, the Purple Majesty, Colorado potatoes grown in the San Luis Valley are among the best staple foods on the planet.