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Potato Growth Regulators and Sprout Inhibitors

The Importance of Potatoes’ “Second Season”

Spud Smart Editor Ashley Robinson, and I recently sat down for a quick Q&A about storing potatoes. Here’s a summary version of our conversation. You...

60’s High-tech Isn’t High Tech Today

What do cassette tapes, ‘Spacewar’ (the first ever computer video game), Wonderbras, hand-held calculators, ARPA Net (the precursor to the Internet), the Ford Mustang,...

Unnecessary Storage Waste Chewing into Revenue and Sustainability

If you could make a big step towards improving sustainability – both environmental sustainability and your farm business’ financial viability – what would make...

Ultra-early Sprouting is a Storage Nightmare

For the last month, I’ve been receiving calls from growers scrambling with piles that are already sprouting. I’m not talking about one or two...

It’s Time for the Potato Industry to Move Past the 1960s

As potatoes come out of the ground across the country, I want to take a moment to applaud producers on the big improvements they’re...

How to Avoid Your Own “Oh NO!” Moment

On a field tour this summer, I had a long conversation over lunch with a potato producer from Manitoba. A chatty guy who was...

Change is Coming, How it Comes is Up to Us

Each time I see a newspaper headline about new environmental and sustainability-based government regulations and corporate requirements being pushed down onto already over-burdened farmers,...

Changes Coming to the Storage Season Status Quo

I’m very happy to see increasing understanding of sustainability and important steps being made to support environmentally responsible agriculture through the potato growing season....

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...

The Importance of Potatoes’ “Second Season”

Spud Smart Editor Ashley Robinson, and I recently sat down for a quick Q&A about storing potatoes. Here’s a summary version of our conversation. You...

60’s High-tech Isn’t High Tech Today

What do cassette tapes, ‘Spacewar’ (the first ever computer video game), Wonderbras, hand-held calculators, ARPA Net (the precursor to the Internet), the Ford Mustang,...

Unnecessary Storage Waste Chewing into Revenue and Sustainability

If you could make a big step towards improving sustainability – both environmental sustainability and your farm business’ financial viability – what would make...

Ultra-early Sprouting is a Storage Nightmare

For the last month, I’ve been receiving calls from growers scrambling with piles that are already sprouting. I’m not talking about one or two...

It’s Time for the Potato Industry to Move Past the 1960s

As potatoes come out of the ground across the country, I want to take a moment to applaud producers on the big improvements they’re...

How to Avoid Your Own “Oh NO!” Moment

On a field tour this summer, I had a long conversation over lunch with a potato producer from Manitoba. A chatty guy who was...

Change is Coming, How it Comes is Up to Us

Each time I see a newspaper headline about new environmental and sustainability-based government regulations and corporate requirements being pushed down onto already over-burdened farmers,...

Changes Coming to the Storage Season Status Quo

I’m very happy to see increasing understanding of sustainability and important steps being made to support environmentally responsible agriculture through the potato growing season....

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...

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