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

Potato Growers Eye U. S. Economy

Manitoba’s potato industry is coming off a strong year with good production and decent prices but caution is tempering its optimism for the coming season. The big question mark for this industry remains the health of the U. S. economy, where a large share of the crop heads in the form of frozen french fries


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

In Brief… – for Feb. 26, 2009

Grant program branches into trees: The Hometown Manitoba grant program for community improvements now includes a tree-planting component, making up to $5,000 available for municipalities or town organizations to plant trees in public areas. The program also offers grants of up to $5,000 for communities to improve and enhance outdoor public areas and up to