As other staples soar, potatoes break new ground »
Posted by: Debbie 4 months, 3 weeks agoAs wheat and rice prices surge, the humble potato -- long derided as a boring tuber prone to making you fat -- is being rediscovered as a nutritious crop that could cheaply feed an increasingly hungry world.Potatoes, which are native to Peru, can be grown at almost any elevation or climate...
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hari1754 months, 3 weeks ago
Twenty or thirty years ago we were the top hogs. Looks like it's back to "Potatoes and Point", like in the nineteen twenties and and thirtys.
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kboy4 months, 3 weeks ago
It used to be the Irish depended on potatoes. This will only work until the powers that be decide to start paying people to make potatoes into alcohol for fuel as they have done for grain crops so the price for food will take another giant leap
without reducing petroleum use but the distilling companies and the GIANT farmer corporations will make millions more.
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"Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for the wind to fly a kite. Or waiting around for Friday night or waiting perhaps for ...
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