IssuesWinter 2017

Winter 2017

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...

From Traits to DNA to Traits

Finding the DNA segments associated with key traits for more efficient potato breeding. Potato breeders select promising lines mainly based on the plants’ phenotypes –...

Convincing the Unconvinced on Precision Agriculture

An Alberta agronomic consultant hopes his “data driven agriculture” proves an easier-to-adopt twist on precision agriculture. Precision agriculture is cutting edge, high-tech and full of...

Eye on the Nation

ALBERTA By Terence Hochstein, Executive Director, Potato Growers of Alberta The 2015-2016 crop year was anything but normal for Alberta process potato growers. An early April...

Industry News

BUSINESS NEWS Cavendish Farms To Construct New Potato Processing Plant Cavendish Farms is expanding its business in Lethbridge, Alta., with the construction of a new frozen...

World Review

CANADA An archeologist has harvested blackened 3,800-year-old potatoes in British Columbia. The crop is uneatable, of course, but proves that North American natives tended gardens during...

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...

From Traits to DNA to Traits

Finding the DNA segments associated with key traits for more efficient potato breeding. Potato breeders select promising lines mainly based on the plants’ phenotypes –...

Convincing the Unconvinced on Precision Agriculture

An Alberta agronomic consultant hopes his “data driven agriculture” proves an easier-to-adopt twist on precision agriculture. Precision agriculture is cutting edge, high-tech and full of...

Eye on the Nation

ALBERTA By Terence Hochstein, Executive Director, Potato Growers of Alberta The 2015-2016 crop year was anything but normal for Alberta process potato growers. An early April...

Industry News

BUSINESS NEWS Cavendish Farms To Construct New Potato Processing Plant Cavendish Farms is expanding its business in Lethbridge, Alta., with the construction of a new frozen...

World Review

CANADA An archeologist has harvested blackened 3,800-year-old potatoes in British Columbia. The crop is uneatable, of course, but proves that North American natives tended gardens during...