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What’s killing your potatoes and what precautions should you be taking?

Surveillance, seed knowledge and proper pre-season cleaning tactics are essential in avoiding the sector’s most prevalent pests

By Jennifer Paige February 11, 2015

Producer surveillance is the first line of defence against pests that can have major impacts on Manitoba potato producers’ yields, a plant pathologist with Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Development says. “Surveillance is the key for all of these disease concerns. The process of collecting and recording the presence or absence of the diseases in

Local news

SAFE Work Manitoba creates new safety consultant position

On-farm safety consultations are now available to Manitoba producers  to assist in establishing safer operations and help avoid pitfalls

By Jennifer Paige February 9, 2015

The Manitoba government has created a new farm safety specialist position to help farmers stay safe — and avoid Workplace Health and Safety inspection infractions. “This role is a great opportunity to get some workshops back on track and help anyone who is looking for assistance in developing an on-farm safety plan,” said newly appointed

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The lowly potato gets a healthy makeover

A low-glycemic potato expands the menu for diabetics

By AAFC November 27, 2014

Scientist Benoît Bizimungu and his team at the Potato Research Centre in Fredericton, New Brunswick, and the Lethbridge Research Centre in Alberta have developed a low-glycemic potato. Low-glycemic-index foods digest slowly, without creating a big spike of sugar and insulin in the body. This helps to achieve sustainable weight loss and improvement in the management of

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Good news for your diet: potatoes help you lose weight

The bad news: that doesn’t mean french fries

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff October 23, 2014

Research published in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition demonstrates that people can eat potatoes and still lose weight. “Some people have questioned the role of potatoes in a weight loss regimen because of the vegetable’s designation as a high glycemic index (GI) food, lead investigator Dr. Britt Burton-Freeman said in a release.

Country Crossroads, Recipe Swap

Walking: the “superfood of exercise”

Recipe Swap: Mashed Potato Casserole , Baked Potato Nachos , and Fast and Fit Clam Chowder 

By Lorraine Stevenson October 9, 2014

Walking is good for us. That was the news on the radio the other day. “Walking is the superfood of exercise,” the commentator said. The only thing new here is the catchy turn of phrase. Hundreds of studies and reports tout the benefits of walking. One that garnered a lot of interest looked at the

Hogs, News, Oilseeds

Report sounds alarm for food processing in Manitoba

Trouble in the pork and potato industries could put a $100-million  drag on food processing in Manitoba, a new report says

By Lorraine Stevenson August 28, 2014

Manitoba’s food-processing sector could take a $100-million nose-dive by 2020 if challenges faced by two of its three biggest players — pork and potatoes — aren’t addressed soon. That’s the worst-case or “business-as-usual” scenario laid out in a recent study by the Rural Development Institute (RDI) at Brandon University. Researchers gathered data from Statistics Canada

Country Crossroads, Pulses

Last year’s leftovers

RecipeSwap: Spinach and Green Pea Soup, and Hodgepodge

By Lorraine Stevenson June 19, 2014

A sure sign of approaching summer around here is an almost-empty freezer. Last fall I made a list of everything we put into it, and all those bags of carrots, peas, beans, corn, rhubarb, saskatoons and strawberries seemed like a lot of food at the time. So a few months later, I’m amazed to see

Crops, News

Aphid control important in managing PVY

Newer strains of the virus have started affecting tubers as well as the foliage

By Julienne Isaacs May 7, 2014

Potato virus Y, a plant pathogenic virus, has recently come to the renewed attention of local and national researchers. Spread via aphids, the disease has long been recognized by its foliar symptoms and resulting crop losses. But the virus is changing. Recently, newer strains of PVY have begun producing tuber symptoms as well as foliar

Crops

Potato growers still negotiating volumes with McCain Foods

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

By Allan Dawson April 21, 2014

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

News

Potato beetle resistance brewing in Manitoba fields

Farmers should be scouting early in the season and switching to  alternative products if they suspect resistance

By Gord Gilmour March 18, 2014

Andrew Ronald has spent a lot of time in recent months talking to Manitoba potato growers about a familiar pest problem that could soon be taking on a new prominence. The Keystone Potato Producers Association agronomist says there’s growing evidence that Colorado potato beetle — the most significant insect pest of potato crops in Manitoba

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures end lower

ICE Weekly: Trade progress, new data threaten to break canola’s price range

CBOT Weekly: Trade awaits USDA S/D report

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