mixed emotion
Feb. 16th, 2001 06:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
threeplusfireIt's hard to know if I feel sad for the farmers who can't afford to farm, or happy for the people getting these potatos.
Farmers offer millions of spuds to poor
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Some 360 truckloads of Idaho potatoes are headed to food banks around the country, a gift from farmers who say they couldn't afford to sell the spuds.
Because of a huge crop last fall, the potatoes are worth so little that farmers say they are better off letting them rot into fertilizer than taking them to market. So rather than do that, the farmers' wives suggested giving away as many of the spuds as they could.
Farmers offer millions of spuds to poor
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Some 360 truckloads of Idaho potatoes are headed to food banks around the country, a gift from farmers who say they couldn't afford to sell the spuds.
Because of a huge crop last fall, the potatoes are worth so little that farmers say they are better off letting them rot into fertilizer than taking them to market. So rather than do that, the farmers' wives suggested giving away as many of the spuds as they could.