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Whether You Want To or Not, Let’s Talk Emissions
Agriculture accounts for about 12 per cent of all greenhouse gas emissions in Canada. As an industry, we can either wait for emissions reduction...
Soil Fumigation Treatment Zones — What You Don’t Know Could be Stealing from Your Investment
When growers apply Strike soil fumigant under their carefully managed field conditions, they get impressive results — top-notch control of rhizoctonia, black dot, common...
How to Tackle Seed Potatoes that Don’t Want to Sleep
Farmers growing potatoes across much of North America would likely prefer to forget last summer and fall. Between brutally hot and dry growing conditions...
Are You Throwing Money Away on Your Soil Fumigation?
You’ve seen the research study results that show soil fumigation with chloropicrin, aka Strike, can effectively subdue rhizoctonia, black dot, common scab, and early...
Are You Buckling Under the Pressure of Consumers’ Scrutiny?
Today’s farmers are being saddled with more and more public and political insistence to decrease their environmental footprints. Whether you believe that's fair or...
What Patates Dolbec Learned About Soil Fumigation Could Make You Money
Each year, scab steals a costly percentage of the potatoes produced at Patates Dolbec, one of Quebec’s largest farms. Philippe Parent, Patates Dolbec’s director...
Let’s Get Political — It’s Time to Talk about Sustainability in Potato Storage Treatment
Let me just lay it out there — I’m frustrated. Much more importantly, farmers are frustrated too. Farmers are being pushed from all sides...
Potato School Snapshot — Can Fumigation and Sustainability Align?
As an agronomist and potato scientist, I’m always fascinated to hear the latest research from potato experts around the world. That’s why the TriCal...
A Whole Lot can go Wrong During the 12 Days of Christmas
With radio stations and grocery stores blasting Christmas carols since just after Remembrance Day, I’ve been whistling carols for a month. After the year...
Tackling Early Die Complex — a Sneak Peek from Potato School
If potato producers could snap their fingers to solve the most costly and frustrating production challenge they face, almost all would snap away early...
