Fry Farmers Need Good Disease Control

“It can be healthy one day, you’ll come back a couple days later and it’s completely dead.” – NEIL GUDMESTAD Colour is quality in a french fry processor’s eyes. Their customers want an attractive, golden-yellow fry without any mottling, and most importantly, no sugar ends. A sugar end refers to a fry that has a

Manage For Chemical Resistance, Crop Rotations

One of the major crop protection tools for Manitoba potato growers in recent years has been the strobilurinbased fungicides. They’ve been a key defence in the fight against fungal infections such as late and early blight – and some growers say they’re observing a “plant health” effect that boosts yield by keeping plants safe from