Excerpt from Marketing Virginia White Potatoes: Buyers' Preferences and Practices There have been many important develop ments in the potato industry during the past two decades. Production has been shifting to the more highly specialized areas. At the same time, retail stores have decreased rapidly in number but increased significantly in size. These larger stores, many of which are members of chains, prefer uniform quality potatoes in large lots. Potato growers in Virginia and in many other areas are finding it increasingly difficult to meet these large scale buyersi requirements. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.