IssuesSummer 2024

Summer 2024

Groundbreaking Research Promises Healthier, Tastier Chips and Fries

Michigan State University researchers make big strides towards reducing cold-induced sweetening. In a landmark discovery that could revolutionize the snack food industry, a team of...

Are Declining Seed Acres Cause for Concern?

Today’s growing and marketing challenges are making seed potato production increasingly risky. Growing and marketing potatoes successfully depends on all kinds of things not going...

Potato Farming in the Future

Expect to see more innovations driven by electrification and artificial intelligence. Farming is rapidly changing, in part due to environmental factors and shifts in the...

We Need a Strong Public System to Ensure the Future of Cover Crops

For many years governments made it a priority to fund public plant breeding systems. Regionally, there were either plant breeders scattered across the country,...

What is Canada’s Potato Gene Bank?

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) established a national potato gene bank at its Fredericton, N.B. research facility in 1992. As private sector breeding programs have...

Eye on the Nation: Prince Edward Island

Potato planting is officially wrapped up on P.E.I. This year was one of the earliest I can remember seeing tractors scratching ground from one...

Groundbreaking Research Promises Healthier, Tastier Chips and Fries

Michigan State University researchers make big strides towards reducing cold-induced sweetening. In a landmark discovery that could revolutionize the snack food industry, a team of...

Are Declining Seed Acres Cause for Concern?

Today’s growing and marketing challenges are making seed potato production increasingly risky. Growing and marketing potatoes successfully depends on all kinds of things not going...

Potato Farming in the Future

Expect to see more innovations driven by electrification and artificial intelligence. Farming is rapidly changing, in part due to environmental factors and shifts in the...

We Need a Strong Public System to Ensure the Future of Cover Crops

For many years governments made it a priority to fund public plant breeding systems. Regionally, there were either plant breeders scattered across the country,...

What is Canada’s Potato Gene Bank?

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) established a national potato gene bank at its Fredericton, N.B. research facility in 1992. As private sector breeding programs have...

Eye on the Nation: Prince Edward Island

Potato planting is officially wrapped up on P.E.I. This year was one of the earliest I can remember seeing tractors scratching ground from one...