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Life stages: eggs, larvae, pupae, adult moths.Cutworms are the larvae of several species of night-flying moths. Female moths lay eggs on the soil or on the foliage; the larvae then hatch and ...

Potato harvest is in the final stages across Canada, reports Victoria Stamper, General Manager of the United Potato Growers of Canada (UPGC) in the final Crop Update for the season. Most provinces have reportedly ...

The foxglove aphid is seldom abundant in Ontario.IdentificationWingless forms. They have a pear-shaped body with prominent, almost parallel, straight-sided antennal tubercles. The body is light yellow-green to dark green or brownish, shiny, ...

In Ontario, the potato aphid is the first to infest the crop in the growing season. It is also the largest aphid that infests potatoes in the province. This aphid is usually ...

Life stages: eggs, wingless forms, winged forms. Aphids are small, soft-bodied, sucking insects 1–4 mm in length. Aphids affect the potato crop directly by feeding and indirectly by transmitting viruses that cause ...

A Puslinch (Guelph) potato chip company is taking the lead on crunching down on single-use plastics to inspire other businesses. As Ariel Deutschmann reports for EloraFergusToday, Humble Potato Chips offers salty snacks that come in plastic-free, compostable bags made with ...

Life stages: eggs, nymphs and adults.Aster leafhoppers infesting potatoes in Ontario originate from two sources: overwintering eggs laid in winter cereals and adults carried from the southern United States by upper-level winds. ...

Life stages: eggs, nymphs, adults. The potato leafhopper does not overwinter in Ontario. It is carried by upper-level winds from the United States and can arrive in Ontario as early as May. ...

Life stages: eggs, larvae, pupae, adult beetles. The Colorado potato beetle (CPB) is one of the most serious insect pests of potatoes. The feeding damagecaused by CPB will drastically reduce yield if ...

As a national wireworm research project wraps, growers have more ways to control the pest. When Christine Noronha first started researching wireworms more than a decade ago, there wasn’t much known about ...

‘Weed hunters’? No, it’s not a joke. It’s a real concept that aims to tackle a serious and costly problem for farmers and their crops – herbicide resistance in weeds. The technique ...

Due to significant rises in input costs, fertilizer, and fuel predominantly, but also because of rainfall lack that’s becoming a growing issue, European countries, the US, and Canada are facing serious reductions ...

Author: Dr. Eugenia Banks, Potato Specialist with the Ontario Potato Board. Article reviewed by Dr. Jiwan Palta.Published here with permission. Dr Jiwan Palta, a professor at the University of Wisconsin, is a recognized ...

Super Pufft Snacks Corp., a North American chip and snack manufacturer, has opened a USD50 million, 140,000 square-foot plant in Airdrie, Alta. The potato chip processing plant will be the company’s second, ...

Super Pufft Snacks Corp., a North American chip and snack manufacturer, has opened a USD50 million, 140,000 square-foot plant in Airdrie, Alta. The potato chip processing plant will be the company’s second, ...

Even with a regional difference of 15% less spud storage holdings in Western Canada on May 9, 2022, the four Eastern Provinces have their cultivar storage holdings 42% above the three-year average, ...

United Potato Growers of Canada has hired a new General Manager, Victoria Stamper, of Mascouche, Quebec, a community just north of Montreal. Victoria will join United in this senior role, effective Monday, ...

Processing contracts on Prince Edward Island have been settled with growers receiving a little more than 20 per cent increase, the April 21 issue of the North American Potato Market News (NAPM) says. Fry ...

In addition to good growing practices, take down nematodes and disease with better tools in the toolbox. When it comes to disease and nematode management, there’s a lot to unpack. There’s field ...

The J.R. Simplot Company has agreed on an exclusive, multi-year agreement with the Kraft Heinz Company naming Simplot as the exclusive manufacturer and supplier of its Ore-Ida retail brand. In the agreement, Simplot will ...

The United States Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA APHIS) has completed their pest risk analysis and concluded, like Canada, that the trade of PEI table stock potatoes can be done ...

Root lesion nematode is a tiny pest, about one millimetre in length. But it has an outsized ability to damage potatoes in Canada. The reason? It’s part of a complex of pests ...

The latest United Potato Growers of Canada (UPGC) report shows that the total cultivar storage holdings, the fresh holdings (those potatoes intended for table use), the holdings of potatoes destined for processing, ...

The Canadian Potato Production for 2021 has been estimated by Statistics Canada to reach 6,891,024 tons, showing a YOY (Year-On-Year) decline of 18.2% or 1,063,440 tons of spuds. On the other hand, ...

Two potato producers in neighbouring provinces experienced very different years in 2021 but shared a similar desire to help others in need. It was a tough year for potato growers in some ...