Aroostook’s potato crop is so bountiful farmers literally need airplane hangars to store it

by Hannah Catlin
4 years ago
Workers from Butler Farms watch a bin piler unload thousands of potatoes into a former military storage facility at Loring Development Center. Hannah Catlin | Aroostook Republic
After nearly three decades of vacancy, the warehouses and airplane hangars of the former Loring Air Force Base have acquired new tenants -- millions of freshly harvested Aroostook County potatoes.Read more.