Sustainability

Sustainability

Improving Soil, Improving Potatoes

Planting cover crops offers many benefits. Innovative growers and an agronomist recently teamed up to look at ways to improve the potato crop and the...

From zero to hero: Increasing potato waste value 10,000-fold

The least valuable part of potato residue that currently goes to landfill could increase in value 10,000-fold, say the Danish researchers transforming them into...

Potato Sustainability Initiative Expands and Evolves

The initiative seeks to provide sustainability and transparency in the industry. The Potato Sustainability Initiative (PSI) grew out of a request from McDonald’s in 2010...

A novel option to combat soil erosion

A nurse crop is one tool for reducing erosion in potato fields. A spring cover crop planted at potato planting time – called a nurse...

Banks: Ontario Variety Trial Results

Ed. note: On Sept. 4, 2017, Eugenia Banks, potato specialist with the Ontario Potato Board, dug up the Beeton (Ontario) Variety Trial plot that...

PEI Potato Producers Building Soil Health Through Crop Rotation

An area of increased attention for agricultural research and changes in production practices globally is soil health. Through new technology and a better understanding...

Improving Soil, Improving Potatoes

Planting cover crops offers many benefits. Innovative growers and an agronomist recently teamed up to look at ways to improve the potato crop and the...

From zero to hero: Increasing potato waste value 10,000-fold

The least valuable part of potato residue that currently goes to landfill could increase in value 10,000-fold, say the Danish researchers transforming them into...

Potato Sustainability Initiative Expands and Evolves

The initiative seeks to provide sustainability and transparency in the industry. The Potato Sustainability Initiative (PSI) grew out of a request from McDonald’s in 2010...

A novel option to combat soil erosion

A nurse crop is one tool for reducing erosion in potato fields. A spring cover crop planted at potato planting time – called a nurse...

Banks: Ontario Variety Trial Results

Ed. note: On Sept. 4, 2017, Eugenia Banks, potato specialist with the Ontario Potato Board, dug up the Beeton (Ontario) Variety Trial plot that...

PEI Potato Producers Building Soil Health Through Crop Rotation

An area of increased attention for agricultural research and changes in production practices globally is soil health. Through new technology and a better understanding...