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Straight from the Field to the Store Shelves

Growing and selling fresh, local potatoes is the name of the game for Blair and Irene Lodder, who farm about 125 acres of potatoes...

Quebec Growers Renowned for Growing Yellow Potatoes

The potato growing operation Maxi-Sol Inc. is located in Saint-Paul de Joliette, Que., a 45-minute drive northeast of Montreal. Founded in February 2009, the...

Farming Aardappels in Alberta

For a country of its size, the Netherlands exports a surprising amount of agricultural products. In the case of the Hoogland family of Alberta,...

Manitoba Farm Breeds Champion Potato Growers

Brock McIntosh has been around potatoes a long time. His dad and grandfather started growing potatoes at Mid-Man Farms in Carberry, Man., in 1965...

P.E.I. Potato Farm Built on Family Values

Gerrit Visser & Sons is a thriving family farm dedicated to quality with a knack for adapting to an ever-changing marketplace. Emigrating from Holland...

Growing Potatoes—Off the Beaten Path

Back in 1995, William ‘Neil’ Thompson was looking to change things up on his Riverhurst, Sask., wheat farm. “At that time the price of...

Straight from the Field to the Store Shelves

Growing and selling fresh, local potatoes is the name of the game for Blair and Irene Lodder, who farm about 125 acres of potatoes...

Quebec Growers Renowned for Growing Yellow Potatoes

The potato growing operation Maxi-Sol Inc. is located in Saint-Paul de Joliette, Que., a 45-minute drive northeast of Montreal. Founded in February 2009, the...

Farming Aardappels in Alberta

For a country of its size, the Netherlands exports a surprising amount of agricultural products. In the case of the Hoogland family of Alberta,...

Manitoba Farm Breeds Champion Potato Growers

Brock McIntosh has been around potatoes a long time. His dad and grandfather started growing potatoes at Mid-Man Farms in Carberry, Man., in 1965...

P.E.I. Potato Farm Built on Family Values

Gerrit Visser & Sons is a thriving family farm dedicated to quality with a knack for adapting to an ever-changing marketplace. Emigrating from Holland...

Growing Potatoes—Off the Beaten Path

Back in 1995, William ‘Neil’ Thompson was looking to change things up on his Riverhurst, Sask., wheat farm. “At that time the price of...