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Simple and Effective Late Blight Detection
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...
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...
Convincing the Unconvinced on Precision Agriculture
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...
Public trust in Canada’s food system
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...
Fall Bedding
Fall bedding in potato fields allows for soil preparation work to be done when growers typically have more time and labour available to them....
PEI Potato Industry Partners Launch Enhanced Agronomy Initiative
The Prince Edward Island Potato Board, Cavendish Farms, and the PEI Department of Agriculture and Fisheries have announced the creation of the Enhanced Agronomy...
Simple and Effective Late Blight Detection
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...
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...
Convincing the Unconvinced on Precision Agriculture
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...
Public trust in Canada’s food system
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...
Fall Bedding
Fall bedding in potato fields allows for soil preparation work to be done when growers typically have more time and labour available to them....
PEI Potato Industry Partners Launch Enhanced Agronomy Initiative
The Prince Edward Island Potato Board, Cavendish Farms, and the PEI Department of Agriculture and Fisheries have announced the creation of the Enhanced Agronomy...