MOSES LAKE, Wash. — Dirt flies in fields behinds digging machines and trucks as potato harvest is in full throttle in the upper Columbia Basin.
“We started harvest Sept. 11 which is a little early,” Reid Baker, a Moses Lake grower told Capital Press on Sept. 22.
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