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Cole and Kayla Richards, both 18, sorted through potatoes on board the harvester at Buck Farms in Mapleton, Maine.

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This machine harvested potatoes at Buck Farms.

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Potatoes passed through a sorter on their way to a storage facility at Buck Farms.

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Clarissa Buck , 15, manned the potato sorter inside the storage facility at Buck Farms.

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Dominic LaJoie, left, used a forklift to pile up 1 ton bags of blue potatoes at LaJoie Growers, LLC in Van Buren, Maine.

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As much as a ton of blue potatoes, used in Jet Blue's chips, are dropped into a tote bagging machine at LaJoie Growers in Van Buren.

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Worker checked for flawed potatoes as they made their way down a conveyer belt outside the processing barn at Buck Farms.

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Teens checked on potatoes passing through a sorter outside the processing barn at Buck Farms in Mapleton.

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Isaac LaJoie, 18, Joshua Buck, 20, and Grayden Hemphill, 15, weeded out bad spuds on the the potato sorter's conveyer belt in Mapleton.

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A truck loaded with newly harvested potatoes made its way through a field back to the processing barn at Buck Farms in Mapleton.