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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...
THIS is the Year I Can Put the Most Dollars in Potato Growers’ Pockets
If I were a potato, this is not the year I’d have chosen to grow.
First, spuds grown across nearly all of the western half...
What’s Biting into Your Farm’s Economic and Environmental Sustainability?
Up to 58 per cent of all the food produced in Canada is lost or wasted each year. Think about that: nearly two of...
Pull Storage Season to the Front Burner (Where it Belongs)
Canadian potato producers are among the very most skilled and proactive potato growers in the world. They’ve perfected potato management through every stage of...
In-field Stress = Challenges in Storage Too
At least some Canadian prairie farmers will be looking forward to finishing – and ideally forgetting – the 2021 growing season. Lack of soil...
Tired Soils Aren’t an Inevitable, Unwinnable Battle
I receive countless calls from frustrated potato growers who tell me they are throwing costly inputs at their fields, yet not seeing the yields...
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...
THIS is the Year I Can Put the Most Dollars in Potato Growers’ Pockets
If I were a potato, this is not the year I’d have chosen to grow.
First, spuds grown across nearly all of the western half...
What’s Biting into Your Farm’s Economic and Environmental Sustainability?
Up to 58 per cent of all the food produced in Canada is lost or wasted each year. Think about that: nearly two of...
Pull Storage Season to the Front Burner (Where it Belongs)
Canadian potato producers are among the very most skilled and proactive potato growers in the world. They’ve perfected potato management through every stage of...
In-field Stress = Challenges in Storage Too
At least some Canadian prairie farmers will be looking forward to finishing – and ideally forgetting – the 2021 growing season. Lack of soil...
Tired Soils Aren’t an Inevitable, Unwinnable Battle
I receive countless calls from frustrated potato growers who tell me they are throwing costly inputs at their fields, yet not seeing the yields...
