IssuesSummer 2015

Summer 2015

Promoting Sustainable Potato Cultivation in Europe

Bayer CropScience and Farm Frites recently started the Food Chain Partnership initiative, designed to implement sustainable agricultural practices in potato cultivation in the Netherlands...

Young Farmers Accentuate the Positive

Prince Edward Island potato growers Andrew and Heidi Lawless clearly know a thing or two about farming. They, along with Myron and Jill Krahn...

New Product Prevents Sprouting in Storage

BioSafe Systems has introduced ARRET Sprout Treatment for the 2015 potato storage season, a solution approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for fresh...

Reward Upped in Potato Tampering Investigation

On June 29, Prince Edward Island’s potato industry increased the reward it is offering to $500,000 for information that leads to the arrest and...

Potato Growers Reach $25 Million Antitrust Settlement

A U.S. potato growers’ co-operative has agreed to pay $25 million to settle allegations that it violated antitrust law by acting as a cartel...

Soil Bacteria Could Protect Against Late Blight

A research scientist at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada has discovered that naturally occurring bacteria found in some Saskatchewan and Alberta soils could offer protection...

Promoting Sustainable Potato Cultivation in Europe

Bayer CropScience and Farm Frites recently started the Food Chain Partnership initiative, designed to implement sustainable agricultural practices in potato cultivation in the Netherlands...

Young Farmers Accentuate the Positive

Prince Edward Island potato growers Andrew and Heidi Lawless clearly know a thing or two about farming. They, along with Myron and Jill Krahn...

New Product Prevents Sprouting in Storage

BioSafe Systems has introduced ARRET Sprout Treatment for the 2015 potato storage season, a solution approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for fresh...

Reward Upped in Potato Tampering Investigation

On June 29, Prince Edward Island’s potato industry increased the reward it is offering to $500,000 for information that leads to the arrest and...

Potato Growers Reach $25 Million Antitrust Settlement

A U.S. potato growers’ co-operative has agreed to pay $25 million to settle allegations that it violated antitrust law by acting as a cartel...

Soil Bacteria Could Protect Against Late Blight

A research scientist at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada has discovered that naturally occurring bacteria found in some Saskatchewan and Alberta soils could offer protection...