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Improving Soil, Improving Potatoes

Planting cover crops offers many benefits. Innovative growers and an agronomist recently teamed up to look at ways to improve the potato crop and the...

A novel option to combat soil erosion

A nurse crop is one tool for reducing erosion in potato fields. A spring cover crop planted at potato planting time – called a nurse...

Banks: Ontario Variety Trial Results

Ed. note: On Sept. 4, 2017, Eugenia Banks, potato specialist with the Ontario Potato Board, dug up the Beeton (Ontario) Variety Trial plot that...

Feds fund research towards adoption of clean technologies and practices in P.E.I.

Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay today announced an investment of $895,000 to the East Prince Agri-Environment Association to study the beneficial environmental effects of planting...

Strain Tracking

Information on shifting late blight strains is helping to control this devastating disease. Through a national initiative, Canadian researchers have found that late blight strains...

Potatoes and Water Management: From Deluge to Drought

Potato producers know all too well that controlling Mother Nature is as likely as reigning in a two year-old. In either case, you’re doomed...

Improving Soil, Improving Potatoes

Planting cover crops offers many benefits. Innovative growers and an agronomist recently teamed up to look at ways to improve the potato crop and the...

A novel option to combat soil erosion

A nurse crop is one tool for reducing erosion in potato fields. A spring cover crop planted at potato planting time – called a nurse...

Banks: Ontario Variety Trial Results

Ed. note: On Sept. 4, 2017, Eugenia Banks, potato specialist with the Ontario Potato Board, dug up the Beeton (Ontario) Variety Trial plot that...

Feds fund research towards adoption of clean technologies and practices in P.E.I.

Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay today announced an investment of $895,000 to the East Prince Agri-Environment Association to study the beneficial environmental effects of planting...

Strain Tracking

Information on shifting late blight strains is helping to control this devastating disease. Through a national initiative, Canadian researchers have found that late blight strains...

Potatoes and Water Management: From Deluge to Drought

Potato producers know all too well that controlling Mother Nature is as likely as reigning in a two year-old. In either case, you’re doomed...