Issues

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,...

Fresh market potatoes dominate this year’s list of new offerings from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s accelerated release selections program. Potatoes are the third most important...

With new aggressive strains of late blight on the move in Canada, producers and industry specialists are looking at ways to improving on-farm management...

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...

That smiling visage to the left belongs to me, the new editor of Spud Smart. It is my pleasure to contribute the From Our...

Dale Rutledge remembers a time when drivers delivering the farm’s potatoes would tell their customers that the potatoes had slept in the ground the...