05 Nov

Posted at 11:22h in Recent News

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...

15 Sep

Posted at 10:12h in Recent News

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...

08 Sep

Posted at 11:03h in Uncategorized

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...

02 Sep

Posted at 07:49h in Recent News

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...

24 Aug

Posted at 15:31h in Uncategorized

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...

17 Aug

Posted at 20:01h in Recent News

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...