Potatoes are a welcome sight in a field when planted, but they can pop up in non-potato years and become unwanted visitors. Volunteer potatoes are tubers left in the field which survive winter and gro

Late blight can devastate a potato field. Across Canada though, a group of researchers are working, as part of a national research cluster, to develop a strategy to fight back against this costly pota

AIRs mission is to protect your crops and allow you to reduce your operating costs. Managing your pesticides effectively has many benefits. Stop working blindly when it comes to fungal diseases! Get

Wireworms are a soil-borne pest which cause millions of dollars in damage to potato crops on Canadian farms each year. Canadian researchers have been working, as part of a national research cluster, t

SWAT MAPS chart soil, water and topography in fields to help growers manage their potato crops better. Fields are not all the same, with low and high spots, wet and dry ones, these patches all require

Storing a potato crop isn’t a walk in the park and a poor harvest can make it even harder. Growers across Canada have experienced a wide range of harvest conditions over the last few years with the most notable having been the wet,

Trying to store your potato crop in the best conditions possible can be tough, but pre-harvest sugar sampling tests may just make it a bit easier. This in-expensive test determines the maturity of a tuber in any field.

Proper nutrient delivery is critical for maximized yield and quality in potatoes, and producers generally use both dry and liquid forms of fertilizer to accomplish this. However, what they choose to use and when depends on many factors,

OxiDate FC A New Contact Fungicide for the Canadian Potato Industry Brought to you by BioSafe Systems Recently, the leading multi-site contact potato fungicides have come under PMRA regulatory scrutiny and restrictions.

Although farmers understand soil compaction is an important issue, they are now becoming more serious than ever about its management. Compaction can threaten potato plants in a number of negative ways. Farmers must often make the decision to enter a fi...