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With farmland and input costs as high as they are, farm margins are tighter than ever before. To be successful in farming today, farmers...

If you’ve farmed for several decades, you’ve seen firsthand the shift from broad spectrum to targeted pest management. Partially, the change has occurred because...

Sustainability is one of the more commonly misunderstood concepts in agriculture today. At times agricultural success, especially higher productivity, is put at odds with...

With plants in full green and tubers only now starting to develop underground, July might seem like a strange time to talk potato storage....

It’s NHL playoff season, which means I’m probably not the only one with a hockey game on in the background. There have been some...

There’s nothing more frustrating than packing beautiful potatoes, only to have them hit with a penalty or rejected for bruising when they reach their...

After an unusually gentle winter across almost all of North America, most potato-growing areas have so far enjoyed a warmer than average spring. That’s...

It’s been a tough couple years to be a potato producer in many parts of Canada. Harvest 2019 was memorably bad, the rain, snow...

Last year’s brutally hot and dry late season conditions across some of Canada’s key, non-irrigated potato growing regions are translating into a bad/good news...

Canada is growing into a global player in the processed potato market, thanks to a rapid expansion in processing capacity in this country. However,...