Eye on potatoes

P.E.I. facing potato shortage
January 19, 2012, Charlottetown, PEI – Although store shelves are full, a potato shortage on Prince Edward Island may be coming as farm warehouses start to run bare.

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N.B. potato producers have time to repay advances
January 16, 2012, Grand Falls, NB – New Brunswick potato producers affected by cold and wet weather in 2011 will have more time to repay their advances under the Advance Payments Program (APP).

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Halifax school puts potatoes on restricted food list
January 16, 2012, Halifax, NS – An elementary school in south-end Halifax has added potatoes to a list of unwelcome food items at the school.

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U.S. potato grower develops sorter
January 11, 2012, Orlando, FL – Greg Jones, a veteran northern Florida potato grower and owner of St. Augustine, Fla.-based AgSort, has developed the E-Sorter optical potato sorter with growers in mind.

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Focus on Potato webcast covers bacterial ring rot
January 11, 2012 – Bacterial ring rot is one of the most feared diseases of potato because of the devastating losses it can cause.

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Farmer’s release lies in Algeria, says ex-diplomat
January 6, 2012 – A veteran Canadian diplomat says the best chance of getting New Brunswick farmer Henk Tepper out of a Lebanon prison is to deal directly with Algeria, the country that issued the arrest warrant in the first place.

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Man makes monster-sized potato discovery
January 2, 2012, Joyo, Kyoto – A man digging up potatoes in his garden recently was rewarded with the discovery of two tubers that looked like monster-sized hands.

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Editorial: January 2012
As you read this editorial, the holiday season has come and gone and the new year is in its early days.

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