Viewpoints

Viewpoints

Stress Factors and Management Practices for Sugar End Disorder and Stem-End Chip Defect

Mike Thornton and Paul Bethke share their views on sugar ends and stem-end chip defect. SUGAR ENDS AND stem-end chip defect are tuber disorders affecting...

Eye on the Nation

The latest potato production news from across the country. Summer 2019 MANITOBA Dan Sawatzky, General Manager, Keystone Potato Producers Association The crop in Manitoba is progressing well. Planting...

Combatting Common Scab

Three Canadian potato experts share their views on the best ways to tackle the disease. COMMON SCAB, a bacterial disease that doesn’t affect yields but...

Champion Potato Grower has Roots in Holland

ALBERTA POTATO PRODUCER Laus Stiekema was in his early 40s when he decided to leave the Netherlands with his wife and four kids to...

What’s Old is New Again: Practical CPB Insecticide Resistance Management

  As growers head into another production season, some are concerned about Colorado potato beetle populations and rising neonic insecticide resistance.  Ian MacRae, a professor and...

Eye on the Nation Spring 2019

The latest potato production news from across the country. SPRING 2019 MANITOBA Dan Sawatzky, General Manager, Keystone Potato Producers Association As I write this snapshot of what I...

Stress Factors and Management Practices for Sugar End Disorder and Stem-End Chip Defect

Mike Thornton and Paul Bethke share their views on sugar ends and stem-end chip defect. SUGAR ENDS AND stem-end chip defect are tuber disorders affecting...

Eye on the Nation

The latest potato production news from across the country. Summer 2019 MANITOBA Dan Sawatzky, General Manager, Keystone Potato Producers Association The crop in Manitoba is progressing well. Planting...

Combatting Common Scab

Three Canadian potato experts share their views on the best ways to tackle the disease. COMMON SCAB, a bacterial disease that doesn’t affect yields but...

Champion Potato Grower has Roots in Holland

ALBERTA POTATO PRODUCER Laus Stiekema was in his early 40s when he decided to leave the Netherlands with his wife and four kids to...

What’s Old is New Again: Practical CPB Insecticide Resistance Management

  As growers head into another production season, some are concerned about Colorado potato beetle populations and rising neonic insecticide resistance.  Ian MacRae, a professor and...

Eye on the Nation Spring 2019

The latest potato production news from across the country. SPRING 2019 MANITOBA Dan Sawatzky, General Manager, Keystone Potato Producers Association As I write this snapshot of what I...