Planting
Farmers use machines to plant seed potatoes. The machines plant up to six rows of potatoes at a time.
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Potatoes grow from small potatoes called seed potatoes. Three to twenty potatoes can grow from each plant.
Cultivating
Farmers cultivate, or turn the soil, to kill weeds growing in the fields.
This tractor is pulling a machine called a cultivator through the potato field.