Good morning growers and industry partners, Well, we didn’t need that rain yesterday, but thankfully the forecast is quite a bit drier for the next 7 days.  Some rainfall totals from the past 24 hrs from PEIDAL weather stations: Mount Royal:  42.8 mm Kensington:  57.6 mm Tryon:  36.6 mm New...

Hello growers and industry partners, My agronomy update is coming a little early this week, as I have to be out of province the rest of the week.  It’s nice to see the sun this morning…hopefully it sticks around for a couple of weeks, as the...

Members of the AIM Soil Working Group travelled to Belgium for the Potatoes Europe show and then visited a number of farms and research institutes in England in early September 2019.  Click on the link below to read the report on their tour. AIM Soil WG...

Hi everyone.  Sorry I missed sending an update last week….I was over in Europe on an AIM Working Group study tour in Belgium and England.  Stay tuned for a report coming soon on what we saw on this trip, specifically on the topic of soil...

Hi everyone.  I think a lot of people are happier this morning following a big rain in the last 24 hours.  So far, it sounds like despite some very high totals, there was very little damage from runoff in potato fields, and I haven’t seen...

Hello everyone, Well, that was some welcome rain last night.  Not enough, but a good start.  It looks like Prince County generally got the most (between 6-10 mm) while Queens and Kings got a bit less (between 4-6 mm).  There are some showers in the forecast...

Good morning everyone, I’m just back from PAA meetings in Manitoba, so I haven’t been out in fields the last week; therefore, this agronomy update will be a little shorter than most.  That being said, it doesn’t require spending time in fields to know that the...