Year-old Northwest potatoes are being dumped in favor of new potatoes

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Year-old Northwest potatoes are being dumped in favor of new potatoes

For two years, Northwest farmers didn’t have enough potatoes for processors.The crops yielded under what was expected. Processors were buying potatoes from the Midwest, East Coast and even Canada to make fries. Fast food restaurants weren’t getting all the fries that they could sell.But then, last year processors hedged and planted more. Baw-wang! Good amounts of spuds were dug out of the ground. Now, those spuds are getting older in storages, a…