Insects

Fingerling potatoes offer an exciting “little” twist on Canada’s favourite staple vegetable. Canadian consumers are used to choosing from a few standard types of potatoes—reds,...

While neonicotinoids are currently controlling most insect populations affecting potato production in Canada, experts say pest resistance is only a matter of time. Twenty years...

Crop Protection Syngenta, a global crop protection company, is offering Cruiser Maxx D Potato, a new liquid potato seed piece treatment aimed at enhancing potato...

Researchers are working hard to improve management strategies for the spreading disease. North American researchers are working hard to improve management strategies for a disease...

Biopesticides are offering growers alternative means of control. Across Canada, growers are implementing integrated approaches to pest control, including the use of biologically-prepared pesticides which...

Potato growers battling wireworms have been given a three-year reprieve by Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency, which had intended to deregulate the widely used...