For farmer Mike Pink, spring is supposed to be a time of hope, when he can survey a green field of young potato plants and anticipate the bounty to be pulled from the sandy soils of the Columbia Basin. Hal Bernton, reports for the Associated Press.
However, this year, this is a season when dreams die, Bernton writes. Due to an epic potato glut that imploded Pink’s market, he has decided to do what was once unthinkable
