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P.E.I. potatoes rotting in storage

January 11, 2010,
Charlottetown, PEI – Some Island farmers are losing their entire potato crop to
rot in storage, but the provincial agriculture minister says he is not
considering it a disaster yet.

January 11, 2010,
Charlottetown, PEI – Some Island farmers are losing their entire potato crop to
rot in storage, but the provincial agriculture minister says he is not
considering it a disaster yet.

Grower Holland Cahill of
Kildare in western P.E.I. has dumped all his potatoes — 900 tonnes. He was able
to salvage a few to give away as cattle feed. The rest he has spread on his
fields as fertilizer.

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