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Potato Biosecurity Standards In Pipeline

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An advisory group picked from the private and public sectors of Canada’s potato industry has been set up to develop a new voluntary, nationwide farm-level biosecurity standard. The group, set up by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency working with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, the Canadian Horticultural Council’s potato committee executive, other potato organizations and provincial
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Potato Harvest On The Colony

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Trucks are waiting! Everybody welcome. Thank you!” The crisp message rings from the public address system, inviting colony members to a shift of picking weeds and lumps of dirt out of newly harvested potatoes travelling by conveyor into the shed. “This is a recorded announcement!” one of the young women deadpans. Grabbing gloves and a
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McCain Honours Champion Growers

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Anton Wiebe Ltd. was named the 2010 McCain Champion Potato Grower for the McCain Portage la Prairie plant during the annual growers’ banquet held Oct. 19. Potatoes are rated throughout the year on a variety of factors including size, gravity, defect level and colour and awarded points accordingly. At the end of each crop year,
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Deadline Extended For Harvest Samples

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Due to this year’s delayed harvest, the Canadian Grain Commission is extending its deadline for the Harvest Sample Program to Dec. 1, from Nov. 1. “This year, the weather was a challenge for producers across Canada. An extra four weeks gives producers time to send their samples and get a free grade despite a late
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Safety Training For Young Farm Workers Important

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Safety officials are still trying to determine what went wrong on a Carberryarea potato farm where a young worker became entangled in a conveyor last month, but they say the incident underscores the need for ongoing safety training. Carberry RCMP reported Sept. 18 that they were cal led to a farm located west of Carberry
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BASF Blames Human Error For GM Potato Blunder – for Sep. 16, 2010

Germany’s BASF told EU officials “human error” was the most likely reason why unapproved, genetically modified potatoes developed by the firm contaminated a field in Sweden, the European Commission said. Executives from chemical giant BASF were summoned to Brussels Sept. 8 to explain how nearly 50 of the GM potatoes – known as Amadea –
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Manitoba Potato Farmers Hope For Average Crop – for Sep. 16, 2010

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Manitoba’s potato harvest was expected to get underway this week amid hopes for a decent crop despite all kinds of disappointment this year. Manitoba potato growers experienced slashed production contracts, torrential summer rains, plant disease and are now battling muddy fields. Surprisingly, then, this year’s potato crop doesn’t look half bad, judging by early indications.
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Manitoba Tomatoes Ravaged By Disease This Year – for Sep. 9, 2010

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Nothing beats the taste of a homegrown, vine-ripened tomato, but there are a lot fewer this year due to fungal diseases that have defoliated plants and rotted the fruit. There’s no controlling it now, but Manitoba gardeners can pick uninfected fruit and let it ripen off the vine. They can also cut out the infected
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Potato Disease Detection Funded – for Aug. 12, 2010

A Quebec firm working on DNA-based disease detection and monitoring for potatoes will get $1.2 million in federal backing. Phytodata Inc. said it’s partnering with McCain Foods Canada to develop such detection systems. The federal funding will go toward work on new and “highly reliable” ways to monitor and detect major airborne diseases in potatoes,
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Silver Scurf Control Approved – for Aug. 12, 2010

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The Pesticide Management Regulatory Agency granted an emergency use registration for Confine (mono-and di-potassium salts of phosphorus acid) on July 30 for post-harvest application of potatoes for the suppression of silver scurf. Caused by the fungus Helminthosporium solani, silver scurf is a common disease of potato. The brown blemishes that develop on the tuber surface

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