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What Growers Can Do to Limit PVY Spread

Excerpts from Mathuresh Singh’s presentation on PVY at the 2023 Ontario Potato Conference. Potato virus Y (PVY) has re-emerged over the last decade as a...

Tips to Reduce Heat Stress on Potatoes

How to save your potato crop when hot temperatures happen. As a consequence of climate change, Ontario has been experiencing summer temperatures that exceed what’s...

Guidelines to Manage Problem Potatoes in Storage

Tips on how to manage a potato crop in risk during storage. After digging the potato crop, the next challenge for growers is to limit...

Keeping an Eye on Pink Eye

How to save your potato crop from pink eye in the field. Pink eye is a sporadic disorder of potato tubers that may result in...

Impact of Soil Moisture Stress on Potato Yield and Quality

Soil moisture levels can have a huge effect on how your potato yield and quality. Because of its shallow root system, the potato crop is...

No Margin of Error to Control the Colorado Potato Beetle

Neonicotinoids have been used in Ontario for 26 years to control the Colorado potato beetle (CPB) but relying on one mode of action...

What Growers Can Do to Limit PVY Spread

Excerpts from Mathuresh Singh’s presentation on PVY at the 2023 Ontario Potato Conference. Potato virus Y (PVY) has re-emerged over the last decade as a...

Tips to Reduce Heat Stress on Potatoes

How to save your potato crop when hot temperatures happen. As a consequence of climate change, Ontario has been experiencing summer temperatures that exceed what’s...

Guidelines to Manage Problem Potatoes in Storage

Tips on how to manage a potato crop in risk during storage. After digging the potato crop, the next challenge for growers is to limit...

Keeping an Eye on Pink Eye

How to save your potato crop from pink eye in the field. Pink eye is a sporadic disorder of potato tubers that may result in...

Impact of Soil Moisture Stress on Potato Yield and Quality

Soil moisture levels can have a huge effect on how your potato yield and quality. Because of its shallow root system, the potato crop is...

No Margin of Error to Control the Colorado Potato Beetle

Neonicotinoids have been used in Ontario for 26 years to control the Colorado potato beetle (CPB) but relying on one mode of action...