IssuesSummer 2021

Summer 2021

Summer 2021 Cross Canada Check in with Potato Associations

Here is your provincial potato association updates from across Canada for the summer 2021 issue of Spud Smart. British Columbia Hugh Reynolds with Reynalda Farms in...

Manitoba Now Has a Sugar Testing Lab

Manitoba potato growers now have access to sugar content tests through Gaia Consulting. Despite all of the acres of spuds bound for french fry production,...

Colorado Potato Beetles are a Mile-High Headache

Entomologists not ready to throw in the towel against nasty pest — Colorado Potato Beetles. The Colorado potato beetle continues to frustrate farmers and take...

A Potato Farmer with No Land

Michiel Buijsse isn’t your typical potato grower, as he doesn’t own any of the land he farms on. When McCain Foods approached Michiel Buijsse about...

Promote Science to Progress Spud Innovation

What’s more compelling? Survey shows 70 per cent of Canadians say they won’t eat GMO potatoes, or, 37 per cent of Canadians say they...

Producing Top Notch Potato Seed in Canada

Growing potato seed in Canada isn’t an easy job, a lot of work goes into it by the CFIA and seed growers across the...

Summer 2021 Cross Canada Check in with Potato Associations

Here is your provincial potato association updates from across Canada for the summer 2021 issue of Spud Smart. British Columbia Hugh Reynolds with Reynalda Farms in...

Manitoba Now Has a Sugar Testing Lab

Manitoba potato growers now have access to sugar content tests through Gaia Consulting. Despite all of the acres of spuds bound for french fry production,...

Colorado Potato Beetles are a Mile-High Headache

Entomologists not ready to throw in the towel against nasty pest — Colorado Potato Beetles. The Colorado potato beetle continues to frustrate farmers and take...

A Potato Farmer with No Land

Michiel Buijsse isn’t your typical potato grower, as he doesn’t own any of the land he farms on. When McCain Foods approached Michiel Buijsse about...

Promote Science to Progress Spud Innovation

What’s more compelling? Survey shows 70 per cent of Canadians say they won’t eat GMO potatoes, or, 37 per cent of Canadians say they...

Producing Top Notch Potato Seed in Canada

Growing potato seed in Canada isn’t an easy job, a lot of work goes into it by the CFIA and seed growers across the...