b'New Varieties RoundupThe latest and most innovative potato varieties available across Canadawhich may just put your old favourites out to pasture.BY: TREENA HEINPOTATO BREEDING IN Canada is booming, and to keep our readers abreast of new developments, we reached out to the leading firms and organizations across the country to find out all about their latest and most innovative varieties. Without further ado, here is the new tuber roundup from coast to coast. HZPC CANADAVICKY, RICKEY RUSSET AND TYSONVicky, from HZPC Canada based in Charlottetown, P.E.I., has red skin and white flesh. Its ideal for the creamer market, and is great for roasting, baking and micro-waving. Vicky has a high tuber set with consistent yields and uniform round shape. It also offers medium-to-early maturation and medium dormancy.Rickey Russet has light yellow flesh with exceptional taste and texture, notes HZPC Canada, making it ideal for the fresh market and for fresh cut french fries. Its a medium maturing variety with very consistent oval-to-oblong tubers, high pack-out potential and good storability.Tyson is a medium-early variety with bright yellow skin/flesh and uniform round-oval shaped tubers with a high percentage of A-size and pack-out. This multipurpose cooking variety has a sweet aroma, fresh flavour and stable sugars, making it ideal for packers supplying the retail and wholesale markets. PARKLAND POTATO VARIETIESEXCELLENCY, ANOUKAND ROKOParkland Potato Varieties in Edmonton, Alta. wishes to highlight Excellency, which is suitable for both fresh market and processing. Its a higher dry-matter potato with smooth yellow skin and pale-yellow flesh, and is suitable for most soil types. The Anouk is a high-yielding, yellow skin, yellow flesh potato with good stora-bility. Its high set and uniform round tuber shape, makes it ideal for the creamer market, says Parkland. Its also resistant to late blight.The Roko is a mid-to-late-maturing fresh market variety with good yields. Its tubers are uniform, oval/round shaped and have shallow eyes. The skin is a smooth deep red and the flesh is white. Cooking type is rather floury, while the dry matter content is moderate. Roko also has excellent virus resistance.Progest 2001 in Sainte-Crois, Que. offers Alliston, an early PROGEST 2001ALLISTON, ARIANA AND AACvariety with round tubers which CONFEDERATION sport very white flesh. PHOTO: PROGEST 2001Progest 2001 in Sainte-Croix, Que. offers Alliston, an early variety with round tubers which sport very white flesh. It does well in warm weather but needs water to reachAC Heather is a fresh market its full potential, Andre Gagnon, president of Progest 2001, explains. It has a shortvariety produced by AAFC storage dormancy providing a quick start and early bulking. With AC Chaleur as abreeders which shows moderate resistance to common scab. PHOTO: AAFC10 SPUDSMART.COM SPRING 2020'