Potato Growth Regulators and Sprout Inhibitors

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,...

Quick quiz, in the last week, how many times have you heard or read ‘sustainability’ in relation to agriculture or food? Five years ago,...

October 8, 2020, marks the official end of the European Union’s grace period on CIPC residue, following the product’s June 2019 deregistration in that...

It’s time to start seriously thinking about your storage program. No, considering storage before harvest isn’t putting the cart before the horse. As farmers,...