1.   And a group of Idaho potato growers is challenging the veto of a provision that gave special capital-gains treatment to certain agricultural stock sales.

2.   As a result, businessfolk and tourist officials are also leaning on potato growers to clean up their act.

3.   Because potato growers are not eligible for federal farm assistance, bankruptcies are expected to rise during spring planting.

4.   But American potato growers say the highly contagious fungus poses an extraordinary threat.

5.   But organizing the notoriously independent potato growers is difficult at best.

6.   Furious Canadian officials charge that the United States is exploiting a minor outbreak of the fungus as a ploy to protect American potato growers.

7.   Potato growers are also complaining that the strong American dollar has led to a flood of imports from Canada, forcing prices even lower.

8.   The plaintiffs in the second lawsuit are a group of potato growers in Idaho.

9.   Yet few groups are as desperate as potato growers.

10.   Potato growers fed up with pernicious poachers have lynched three suspected thieves and beat a dozen others this summer.