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Crop Production R & D

Sorghum-Sudangrass as Rotation Crop

Already grown by some potato farmers in P.E.I., the use of this multi-benefit crop may increase in years to come. The ideal potato rotation crop...

Mesh Keeps Pests Off Potatoes: NZ research

In New Zealand, a team of Lincoln University researchers is impressed with the results from a trial of a mesh cover that is used...

Conservation Measures Outperform Conventional Yields

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...

Potato-Vegetable Growers Give $5 Million for UW-Research

Potato growers plan to give $5 million to University of Wisconsin-Madison during the next decade to conduct research for the industry. Members of the Wisconsin...

More tools for wireworm control

Two wireworm experts have developed innovative traps that target the adult stage of wireworms, called click beetles. Two researchers have done extensive work to improve...

Potato funding announced for Manitoba

The Canada and Manitoba governments have invested more than $210,000 in a new vegetable research site near Winkler, Man., focused on improving yields, developing...

Sorghum-Sudangrass as Rotation Crop

Already grown by some potato farmers in P.E.I., the use of this multi-benefit crop may increase in years to come. The ideal potato rotation crop...

Mesh Keeps Pests Off Potatoes: NZ research

In New Zealand, a team of Lincoln University researchers is impressed with the results from a trial of a mesh cover that is used...

Conservation Measures Outperform Conventional Yields

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...

Potato-Vegetable Growers Give $5 Million for UW-Research

Potato growers plan to give $5 million to University of Wisconsin-Madison during the next decade to conduct research for the industry. Members of the Wisconsin...

More tools for wireworm control

Two wireworm experts have developed innovative traps that target the adult stage of wireworms, called click beetles. Two researchers have done extensive work to improve...

Potato funding announced for Manitoba

The Canada and Manitoba governments have invested more than $210,000 in a new vegetable research site near Winkler, Man., focused on improving yields, developing...