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Among the 11,082 samples processed from Prince Edward Island (P.E.I.) fields between July 1, 2022, and the end of September 30, 2022, inspectors from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) discovered yet ...

On October 14, USDA’s Animal Plant Health Inspection Service released a comprehensive report on the current status of the potato wart crisis on Prince Edward Island, Canada, stating that PEI’s potato wart infestation is ...

Gordon MP Richard Thomson has continued his campaign to restore access to the export markets in the EU and Northern Ireland for Scottish seed potatoes.  In a press release, Thomson’s office points ...

Hurricane Fiona couldn’t have come at a worse time for the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island (PEI) potato farmers who were about to begin harvesting. Lifting is progressing for those with ...

KFC has revealed its secret recipe to the Ruffles brand to provide Canadians with an epic snacking experience. Fried chicken and potato chips are synonymous, with the ridged crunch of Ruffles potato ...

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 ...

Today, McDonald’s Canada and McCain Foods Limited announce a new partnership to create the ‘Future of Potato Farming Fund‘ by investing $1M in education, demonstration, and cost-sharing grants to support potato farmer adoption of regenerative practices ...

According to the department, this decision was made due to the diseases detected in the seeds.From August 15, Rosselkhoznadzor prohibits the supply of seed material from French, German, Dutch and Canadian nurseries ...

Domestic potato processors proposed to the Ministry of Agriculture to raise import duties on potato flakes, which are used to make chips and mashed potatoes, from 5% to 32%. Kommersant writes about ...

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 ...

Entrepreneur Vasily Starodubtsev, the grandson of the former governor of the Tula region, bought the plant under construction from a division of the Canadian company McCain (McCain food). After the launch, the ...

Construction is underway on our state-of-the-art potato packaging facility and new Canadian head office. The Little Potato Company and Leduc County representatives celebrated the start of construction on a more than 200,000 ...

McCain Foods hopes to make one of America’s favorite guilty pleasures a little more virtuous with a new companywide push for sustainable production practices. As Lucas Dufalla reports for the Sun Journal, the ...

On the last day of the 11th World Potato Congress (WPC) in Dublin, Ireland, WPC President Romain Cools, called in the WPC Declaration of Dublin upon the global potato value chain to invest in ‘potato solutions’ to advance ...

Manitoba, Canada Producer organisation Peak of the Market Ltd. is announcing a new direction for the future. With the recent changes in legislation, Peak of the Market has been re-established as a ...

New Brunswick agricultural technology company, Picketa Systems, closed their CAD 300,000 pre-seed investment round to deploy their innovative plant nutrient analysis and decision support system to the Atlantic Canadian potato industry. Growers ...

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 P.E.I. Potato Board said it is "no surprise" that there has been a third detection of potato wart, this one found in soil samples taken in October 2021. It says the ...

The National Potato Council (NPC) in the U.S. today released the following statement in response to USDA’s announcement that trade in table stock potatoes would resume between Prince Edward Island (PEI), Canada, and the United States: ...

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 ...

Canada’s national potato magazine, SpudSmart, has selected the AgroScout crop monitoring solution as one of its Top 10 Most Innovative Products in the Potato Industry for 2022. Industry people from across the Canadian potato industry recently voted ...

The Prince Edward Island potato industry in Canada has its fingers crossed for good news before the end of this week. Agriculture and Agri-Food Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau indicated in a number of ...

Potatoes in Canada last spoke to Vanessa Currie, a potato breeding technician at the University of Guelph, at the 2021 Canadian Potato Summit, where she shared exciting new varieties being examined. In ...

Farmers can’t fix the situation with fertilizer availability and high input cost, but they can get a better grasp on their crop fertility requirements, even now.

The closure of the US border to PEI table stock potatoes and restriction of movement of all seed potato by the Canadian Minister of Agriculture has left the Islanders with more than ...