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Shortage of Canadians Working in Agriculture to Double by 2025

The gap between labour demand and the domestic workforce in agriculture has doubled from 30,000 to 59,000 in the past 10 years and projections...

Potato Growers Get Help to Fight with Late Blight Pathogen

The Plant Management Network (PMN) has released a new presentation entitled “Late Blight Management Under Semi-Arid Conditions” to help potato growers recognize pathogen hosts,...

Using smartphones to battle pests

New pest app can help identify pests and provide management advice. A new app has been designed to help growers of field crops identify and...

Sorting the rocks from the spuds

Up until this fall, Alex Docherty, chairman of the PEI Potato Board and a potato farmer in Elmwood, P.E.I., would do what most potato farmers...

Cornell U funding to eradicate potato pest

Cornell University's long-standing battle against a major potato pest is getting a $1.2 million boost in new New York state funding. The destructiveness of the...

Cambodia Opens First Potato Research Centre

With potato consumption continuing to rise in the Kingdom, the Agriculture Ministry on Tuesday unveiled a $200,000 (U.S.) research center it hopes will research...

Shortage of Canadians Working in Agriculture to Double by 2025

The gap between labour demand and the domestic workforce in agriculture has doubled from 30,000 to 59,000 in the past 10 years and projections...

Potato Growers Get Help to Fight with Late Blight Pathogen

The Plant Management Network (PMN) has released a new presentation entitled “Late Blight Management Under Semi-Arid Conditions” to help potato growers recognize pathogen hosts,...

Using smartphones to battle pests

New pest app can help identify pests and provide management advice. A new app has been designed to help growers of field crops identify and...

Sorting the rocks from the spuds

Up until this fall, Alex Docherty, chairman of the PEI Potato Board and a potato farmer in Elmwood, P.E.I., would do what most potato farmers...

Cornell U funding to eradicate potato pest

Cornell University's long-standing battle against a major potato pest is getting a $1.2 million boost in new New York state funding. The destructiveness of the...

Cambodia Opens First Potato Research Centre

With potato consumption continuing to rise in the Kingdom, the Agriculture Ministry on Tuesday unveiled a $200,000 (U.S.) research center it hopes will research...