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Quebec By Clement LaLancette, General Manager Federation des Producteurs de Pommes de Terre du Quebec In 2010, 2011 and 2012, Quebec potato producers participated in a project to determine the efficacy...
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New Brunswick By Louis Ouellette, Market Information Co-ordinator Potatoes New Brunswick The 2014 New Brunswick potato planting season got off to a slower start than normal. A long, cold winter led to...
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New Brunswick By Louis Ouellette, Market Information Co-ordinator Potatoes New Brunswick It was a very pleasant summer here in New Brunswick. A late spring got the crop into the ground about two weeks...
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New Brunswick By Louis Ouellette, Market Information Co-ordinator, Potatoes New Brunswick The 2014 fall harvest in New Brunswick took place under almost perfect weather conditions, with late September...
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Prince Edward Island By Alex Docherty, Chairman, Prince Edward Island Potato Board As of the beginning of March, we were in the middle of the 2014/2015 shipping season. Quality remained top-notch,...
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New Brunswick By Louis Ouellette, Market Information Co-ordinator, Potatoes New Brunswick The 2014 crop held up very well throughout the entire storage season and quality was excellent with next to no...
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New Brunswick By Louis Ouellette – Market Information Co-ordinator, Potatoes New Brunswick The 2015 New Brunswick potato crop got off to a slightly late and slow start with June being cool and a little...
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Prince Edward Island By Alex Docherty – Chairman, Prince Edward Island Potato Board Challenges and opportunities are ahead for efforts to market the 2015 crop at a level growers need for a good return...
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Prince Edward Island By Alex Docherty – Chairman, Prince Edward Island Potato Board The P.E.I. Potato Technology Expo was held in Charlottetown, P.E.I. on Feb. 26-27. Unlike many previous years, the...
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Prince Edward Island By Alex Docherty, Chairman, Prince Edward Island Potato Board Lower volumes of snow in early 2016 meant we had a more of a normal spring in P.E.I. A stretch of wet weather in...
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ALBERTA By Terence Hochstein, Executive Director, Potato Growers of Alberta Spring came early to Alberta this year, and with that, the crops were planted about two weeks ahead of normal. April and May...
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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 start turned into a long...
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MANITOBA By Dan Sawatzky, General Manager, Keystone Potato Producers Association Our annual conference, Manitoba Potato Production Days, was held at the end of January with excellent attendance....
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MANITOBA By Dan Sawatzky, General Manager, Keystone Potato Producers Association Growers in Manitoba experienced an excellent start to the season, seeing good potential in the crop this year. Although...
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ALBERTA By Terence Hochstein, Executive Director, Potato Growers of Alberta Alberta’s spring got off to what most would consider a normal spring, with good weather and normal moisture. Planting got...
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ALBERTA By Terence Hochstein, Executive Director, Potato Growers of Alberta Alberta’s 2017 crop turned out to be a mixed bag. While quality remains excellent, our yields were all over the place. Some...
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BRITISH COLUMBIA By Hugh Reynolds, Reynelda Farms, Delta, B.C. B.C. has had near endless rain in January with a very cold February and a wet, cool March forecast. This puts B.C. behind for our famous...
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MANITOBA Dan Sawatzky, General Manager, Keystone Potato Producers Association Heat and lack of rainfall highlight the growing conditions for Manitoba this season. Above 30 C days were double the...
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New Brunswick The 2018 growing season in New Brunswick is complete and will be remembered as one of the most challenging in the last 10 years or more. The challenging growing season in New Brunswick...
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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 am seeing in the...
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