Andy Diercks, a fourth-generation potato farmer from the small village of Coloma in central Wisconsin, is blunt about the difficult realities facing family-owned farms today.
Healthy potato harvests surpass odds
Taking part in a statewide outreach commercial filming, Coloma Potato Farms owner Andy Diercks, left, talks with Amanda Gevens, professor of plant pathology at UW–Madison.
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