Island growers should be on the lookout for early blight, and should be considering applying preventative fungicides for early blight right now, as weather conditions are prime for early blight spread. In addition, a number of growers with spore collectors have been finding spikes in...
The new efficiencyPEI Business Energy Rebates program offers support to businesses, non-profits and institutional organizations, as well as industrial/agricultural facilities for choosing high-efficiency products. Improving energy efficiency will improve your bottom line by reducing your energy consumption costs and should be addressed before exploring alternative energy sources. The...
The PEI Potato Board and the PEI Horticultural Association are hosting a series of workshops on sprayer calibration with Ken Lingley of On Target Sprayer Services. These workshops will assist growers to perform their own on-farm calibration of ground sprayers in order to meet requirements under...
Potato growers are reminded to cover or properly dispose of cull piles! This is a very important step in reducing the inoculum of diseases such as late blight and PVY, reducing the risk of disease spread in the province during the growing season! Regulations under the...
It’s a super busy time of year obviously, but I wanted to pass along some info on some programs that are part of the CAP suite of programs offered by the PEI Department of Agriculture and Fisheries that might fit with some of your planting...
I’ve had a number of conversations with growers this winter and early spring about rotation crops, especially some of these newer options that are being experimented with on the Island. Feedback that I had was that growers would like a reference document to compare the...
Following his presentation at the International Potato Tech Expo in February, we asked Dr. Jiwan Palta from the University of Wisconsin-Madison to help us develop a short factsheet, summarizing some of the key messages from his presentation on the role of tuber calcium. You can...
We've added a new factsheet to the site: Best Management Practices to Minimize the Spread of PVY This factsheet is based on recent research done by Dr. Mathuresh Singh and his team in New Brunswick on PVY under the CHC's National Potato Cluster 2, which just concluded...
Check out our new AIM Factsheet on the use of cover crops and beneficial rotation crops to build soil organic matter, prevent soil erosion, and battle pests and diseases. Keeping Your Soils Covered - Cover Crop Factsheet (April 2018) This factsheet was prepared using research results from...
Check out Spud Smart's new webinar recording on Seed, that was held on March 29th, 2018. http://spudsmart.com/spud-smart-webinar-podcast-start-healthy-potato-seed/ This webinar focuses on planting healthy seed, advances in whole seed trials by McCain Foods, seed storage and seed cutting. Timely information for growers this spring!...