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