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Environment

Diseases

Strain Tracking

Carolyn King -
Information on shifting late blight strains is helping to control this devastating disease. Through a national initiative, Canadian researchers have found that late blight strains...
Agronomy

Potatoes and Water Management: From Deluge to Drought

Geoff Geddes -
Potato producers know all too well that controlling Mother Nature is as likely as reigning in a two year-old. In either case, you’re doomed...
Disease Prevention

Simple and Effective Late Blight Detection

Rosalie I. Tennison -
Spore traps alert growers to late blight pressure. Determining late blight presence and the resulting pressure on potato crops is an ongoing challenge. Usually, potato...
Agronomy

Conservation Measures Outperform Conventional Yields

Lee Hart -
Yields and other benefits are there under conservation potato production practices; the challenge is to reduce the cost of compost. Conventional potato production appears ultimately...
Agronomy

Convincing the Unconvinced on Precision Agriculture

Madeleine Baerg -
An Alberta agronomic consultant hopes his “data driven agriculture” proves an easier-to-adopt twist on precision agriculture. Precision agriculture is cutting edge, high-tech and full of...
Environment

Public trust in Canada’s food system

Treena Hein -
Rebuilding trust in food and farming a “very serious” issue. “Very serious” – that’s how United Potato Growers of Canada (UPGC) general manager Kevin MacIsaac...
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Diseases

Strain Tracking

Carolyn King -
Information on shifting late blight strains is helping to control this devastating disease. Through a national initiative, Canadian researchers have found that late blight strains...
Agronomy

Potatoes and Water Management: From Deluge to Drought

Geoff Geddes -
Potato producers know all too well that controlling Mother Nature is as likely as reigning in a two year-old. In either case, you’re doomed...
Disease Prevention

Simple and Effective Late Blight Detection

Rosalie I. Tennison -
Spore traps alert growers to late blight pressure. Determining late blight presence and the resulting pressure on potato crops is an ongoing challenge. Usually, potato...
Agronomy

Conservation Measures Outperform Conventional Yields

Lee Hart -
Yields and other benefits are there under conservation potato production practices; the challenge is to reduce the cost of compost. Conventional potato production appears ultimately...
Agronomy

Convincing the Unconvinced on Precision Agriculture

Madeleine Baerg -
An Alberta agronomic consultant hopes his “data driven agriculture” proves an easier-to-adopt twist on precision agriculture. Precision agriculture is cutting edge, high-tech and full of...
Environment

Public trust in Canada’s food system

Treena Hein -
Rebuilding trust in food and farming a “very serious” issue. “Very serious” – that’s how United Potato Growers of Canada (UPGC) general manager Kevin MacIsaac...
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