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In the Tokachi region of Japan, soil frost depth has been decreasing. Outbreaks of volunteer potatoes caused by overwinter survival of unharvested potato tubers have become a severe nuisance. Some farmers have started snow plowing (yukiwari in Japanese) to deepen soil frost and thereby freeze tubers to death. However, the system relies on farmer's intuition and experience and sometimes they fail to...
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