Manitoba potato growers are seeing companies cut their contracts with trade uncertainties and low demand hurting the once-profitable crop.
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Cut contracts alarm Manitoba potato sector
Manitoba potato growers have been dealt a blow by companies who have cut producer contracts, citing trade strife and lower consumer demand
Push-pull system focus of Colorado Potato Beetle control research
Using natural compounds, like cannabis mulch, can help repel the beetles from potato fields
New ways to control Colorado Potato Beetle are marrying pheromones, volatiles and potentially natural repellants.
Researchers look for genetic key to cold sweetening
Being able to turn off the problem would open up more potato varieties for commercial use
Being able to turn off the genetic predisposition for cold sweetening would open up more potato varieties for commercial use.
New national potato wart plan in place for 2025 growing season
The new National Potato Wart Response Plan is complete and will take effect for the 2025 potato crop.
Producers break late blight threat with proactive measures
Tracking has helped target fungicides and other controls across the country
Preemptive strategies helped keep fungal diseases like late blight at bay in potatoes in most of Canada in 2024.
CFIA’s 2024 potato wart survey comes back clean
Canadian Food Inspection Agency potato wart survey turns up no cases of the disease for 2024.
Tariffs mute Manitoba welcome for new potato processor
European potato company Agristo will break ground on a new North Dakota plant this year, but U.S. tariffs may stop Manitoba producers from taking advantage
New North Dakota potato plant offers potential for Manitoba producers, but looming US tariffs threaten trade. Explore how this expansion and Canada-US trade tensions impact potato exports.
Save your yield on eroded knolls
Erosion often steals yield from hilltops and knolls in the field: Here are some ways to get it back
Erosion often steals yield from hilltops and knolls in the field: Here are some ways to get it back
Beat the New Year’s diet hype
The New Year’s fad diet hype wave is coming and rural families aren’t immune: Don’t fall for it.
UN peacekeepers guard Congolese farmers working their fields
Under a scorching sun in Democratic Republic of Congo, many of the farmers tending to their fields in the troubled eastern region are guarded by United Nations peacekeepers.
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