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Keystone Potato Growers Association manager Dan Sawatzky says potato growers are hoping for better harvest weather soon so the disastrous harvest of 2018 isn’t repeated.
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Potato growers struggling with harvest — again

The second wet harvest in as many years has Manitoba potato growers worried

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Manitoba potato growers, forced to leave an unprecedented number of acres unharvested last fall, are worried 2019 could be a repeat. “It’s not looking very good,” Dan Sawatzky, manager of the Keystone Potato Growers Association (KPGA) representing the province’s 52 processing potato growers said in an interview Sept. 30. “I am hoping we can dig
Manitoba typically produces approximately 22 million cwt of potatoes each year.
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Manitoba poised to replace P.E.I. as potato king

Simplot’s expanded Portage potato-processing plant will put Manitoba at the top of the heap

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Bud the Spud will soon see less of Prince Edward Island’s bright-red mud and more of Manitoba’s sandy loam. The Keystone province is set to overtake the “Garden of the Gulf” as Canada’s biggest potato producer. Last February J.R. Simplot announced it was doubling the size of its potato-processing plant in Portage la Prairie. The
Unprecedented: Thousands of potato acres unharvested
Crops, News

Unprecedented: Thousands of potato acres unharvested

But despite the adverse weather 2018 was still a decent year for many other Manitoba crops, says KAP president Bill Campbell

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A bumper Manitoba processing potato crop was stolen from farmers by bad harvest weather. “We ended up with about 5,200 acres left in the ground,” Dan Sawatzky, manager of the Keystone Potato Growers Association told the Keystone Agricultural Producers advisory council meeting here Nov. 12. “That’s unprecedented in the history of potatoes I guess in
white potatoes
Crops, Local news

Spud producers pull off second record crop

Prices are low and right now there’s no market for the surplus production

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Manitoba potato growers harvested, on average, a record 348 hundredweight (cwt) an acre this fall, up eight per cent from the previous record of 322 cwt set last year. However, it’s not all good news, Keystone Potato Growers Association manager Dan Sawat­zky told the Keystone Agricultural Producers’ advisory council Nov. 3. “We are struggling to
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Crops

Potato growers still negotiating volumes with McCain Foods

All three processors have cut some producers entirely forcing some out of production entirely

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McCain Foods still hasn’t settled on the volume of potatoes it wants Manitoba processing potato growers to produce this year, even though planting is just weeks away. “We know there will be another decrease in volume though (from last year),” Dan Sawatzky, manager of Keystone Potato Growers Association Inc., told the Keystone Agricultural Producers’ general
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Manitoba highest-cost processing potato producer: McCain

Growers, who are negotiating 2014 prices, don’t think the company’s figures are current

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Manitoba potato farmers could face steeper cuts in contracted potato production unless they can become more cost competitive with other areas of North America, a senior official with McCain Foods says. Christine Wentworth, McCain Foods’ vice-president of North America agricultural procurement, said in a recent interview Manitoba produces the highest-cost processing potatoes in North America.

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