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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
Hi everyone, After some good moisture in most areas last week, it’s been a dry week so far in PEI. Anticipated thundershowers on Monday did not result in much rainfall across most of the province. There is a chance of showers on Friday and Saturday, but...
Hi everyone, This will be a short agronomy update, as I’m in Montana for the Potato Association of America Meeting this week. Learning lots of interesting stuff about potato research across North America…I’ll hopefully have some tidbits to share with you next week. One interesting presentation from...