Central Idaho

            I suppose everyone has heard of "Idaho Potatoes"? Well these are the fields, with the rich dark loam, where they grow.

 

These potatoes are not on their way to your local market, they actually are cut in pieces and use the small parts as seeds in the field for a new crop, they are called seed potatoes.

These fine ladies are sorting the seed potatoes by size.

This is a large operation, well large to us.

The structures look to hold hundreds of thousands of seed potatoes from last years crop.

Five miles away was the site of the former Teton Dam. The dam suffered a catastrophic failure on June 5, 1976

The earthen dam was completed just the year before and while there are a number of reasons for the collapse, the fact is 11 lives were lost and 13,000 cattle died down river in the resulting flooding.