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...
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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...