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Potato Growth Regulators and Sprout Inhibitors
It Ain’t Easy Being a Potato Grower this Year
Though farmers are used to dealing with uncertainty, the start of this year’s growing season is testing the patience and stress levels of even...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Change Your Storage Mindset
With farmland and input costs as high as they are, farm margins are tighter than ever before. To be successful in farming today, farmers...
It Ain’t Easy Being a Potato Grower this Year
Though farmers are used to dealing with uncertainty, the start of this year’s growing season is testing the patience and stress levels of even...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Change Your Storage Mindset
With farmland and input costs as high as they are, farm margins are tighter than ever before. To be successful in farming today, farmers...
