Hi everyone, I hope that everyone is done potato harvest (or almost done). Hard to think of a fall in recent memory with better harvest conditions and better temperatures for cover crop establishment. I love to see all of the fields greening up around the province after harvest. In general, it sounds like most growers...
Hi everyone, I really wish that we all would have gotten a bit more rain out of yesterday. Surfing through stations from across the province, a lot of locations in Prince and Queens Counties got 3-5 mm of rain, but very few locations in Kings County got any…and that’s who needs rain the most. Hearing...
Hi everyone, It’s been a very nice start to September so far. Cooler at nights to spur the potato plants to ramp up tuber bulking. Sunny and warm during the day to keep photosynthesis happening. And enough dry weather to allow folks to get grain harvest wrapped up. Lots of growers I’m talking to are...
Hi everyone. Apologies that my weekly update is a little late…we were a bit late getting spore trap results this week. Once again, all of the Spornado spore traps across the Island were negative again this week for late blight. All of the remaining AirSpore results in PEI were once again negative for late blight;...
Hi everyone, Thanks for those that have come out to our AIM tours the yesterday up west and today in East Prince. We had a great turnout at each of the first two tours, and we look forward to seeing lots of folks out in the Souris area tomorrow. As a reminder, here our is...
Hi everyone, I was away last week on vacation, but I’m glad to hear that most of the Island got substantial rainfall while I was away! Here are some rainfall totals from the past 7 and 14 days: from weather.peiclimate.ca (UPEI weather stations) Station Last 7 days (mm) Last 14 days (mm) Tignish 21.0...
Hi everyone, Another sunny and warm week in PEI this week. Some folks in Prince County were fortunate to get between 5 and 15 mm of rain over the weekend in thundershowers, but they were very spotty and Eastern PEI did not receive much rain at all. The forecast looks favourable for some rain early...
