Dec. 17 was the first, of what hopes to be, many shipments of potatoes from Quincy to a Frito-Lay facility in Perry, Ga.
Thaemert Farms, a Quincy area potato farm, has been working with Frito-Lay since 1983. Normally they send potatoes by semi truck to Frito-Layâs Vancouver, Wash. facility. Recently, however, Frito-Lay reached out to organize one shipment of potatoes to go by railcar to Georgia. This is a trial run to see if it could be implemented in the future.
It will take 17 days for the potatoes to travel from Quincy to its final destination in Georgia. The railcar is completely temperature controlled in order to keep the potatoes from going bad along the journey. The railcar will be kept around 52 degrees Fahrenheit.