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    Shortage prompts McCain to close Grand Falls plant for summer

    McCain Foods Canada Ltd. announced a temporary closure of its processing plant in Grand Falls, N.B., due to a shortage of potatoes. The closure will affect 120 workers at the plant, which had been bringing potatoes from Prince Edward Island. A McCain spokesperson told CBC the company cannot get enough potatoes to keep the plant going through the summer.