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Potato Growers Say Down Economy Means Down Prices For Spuds


Northwest potato farmers are bracing for what could be a tough year. Nearly every field in the Columbia Basin in Eastern Washington is a-buzz with activity. Farmers on tractors are pruning, plowing and planting like mad.

Correspondent Anna King caught up with a potato farmer near Eltopia, Washington.

Under the sparkling sun, Ted Tschirky watches a tractor pulling a potato planter in his field.

It burns around his 100-acre irrigated circle depositing potatoes with a shot of fertilizer. Neat furrows ripple behind the tractor like wakes off speed boats.

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