BusinessManitoba breaks spud harvest record for second year

Manitoba breaks spud harvest record for second year

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It’s not the great potato famine but the great spud glut.

A bountiful potato harvest in Manitoba this year smashed yield records for the second consecutive year.

Now, potato growers have to figure out what to do with their mountains of taters.

Read more from the Winnipeg Free Press.

 

 

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