Insights and Stories on Prince Edward Island

Canadian potato output rises in 2023

Jan. 24, 2024 at 1:41 pm CST

At 32.063 million hundredweight of potatoes this year, Alberta vaulted from third to first place as it improved on the previous year’s crop of 26.813 million. Manitoba moved into second spot from third with its harvest of 29.760 million cwt. following last year’s 26.139 million. Prince Edward Island saw its output reduced in 2023 to 25.813 million cwt. from 27.789 million. In 2023, the trio combined for 68 per cent of Canada’s total potato harvest of 128,801 million cwt.

Feds ask for feedback on potato wart plans

Jan. 15, 2024 at 1:04 pm CST

By Geralyn Wichers

P.E.I. potato growers, CFIA to draft plan for ‘pest-free places’

Sep. 9, 2023 at 5:10 am CDT

By Dave Bedard

P.E.I. names new deputy ag minister

Aug. 18, 2023 at 4:54 am CDT

By Dave Bedard

Thompson returns as P.E.I. ag minister

Apr. 24, 2023 at 7:45 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

P.E.I. ag minister, ag critics re-elected

Apr. 4, 2023 at 6:17 pm CDT

Prince Edward Island’s incumbent agriculture minister and opposition agriculture critics prevailed in Monday night’s provincial election, in which incumbent premier Dennis King’s Tories were returned with a majority. Darlene Compton, King’s agriculture minister since last summer and his incumbent deputy premier, won re-election Monday for the Progressive Conservatives in her […]

By Dave Bedard

Potato wart survey gives clean bill of health

Mar. 15, 2023 at 9:39 pm CDT

A national survey on the watch for potato wart has come back clean. On March 13, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) said results from their 2022 potato wart survey had not found any cases of the soil-borne fungus. The agency had tested nearly 1,500 soil samples from fields in […]

By Staff

Canada’s potato crop edges up in 2022

Feb. 9, 2023 at 4:54 pm CST

MarketsFarm — Statistics Canada (StatCan) issued its potato production report Thursday, which noted a 1.5 per cent increase in the country’s crop in 2022. Across Canada, nearly 122.9 million hundredweight (cwt) of potatoes were harvested last year, with an average national yield of 322.3 cwt/acre on 381,351 acres. Alberta rose […]

Trudeau tours storm-hit Atlantic Canada as power outages persist

Sep. 27, 2022 at 6:34 pm CDT

Port aux Basques, N.L. | Reuters — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday started a tour of Atlantic Canada, where thousands were still without power after record-setting storm Fiona ravaged the country’s east coast, tossing homes into the sea and killing at least three people. Fiona recorded the lowest barometric […]

By John Morris

Fiona batters Eastern Canada’s farms, fishery

Sep. 26, 2022 at 5:18 pm CDT

Winnipeg | Reuters — Powerful storm Fiona slammed into Canada’s eastern fishing and farm industries over the weekend, smashing wharves, food processing plants and barns that will take months to repair. One of the worst storms Canada has ever faced left more than one-third of customers in Nova Scotia without […]

By Rod Nickel

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Insights and Stories on Prince Edward Island

Canadian potato output rises in 2023

Feds ask for feedback on potato wart plans

P.E.I. potato growers, CFIA to draft plan for ‘pest-free places’

P.E.I. names new deputy ag minister

Thompson returns as P.E.I. ag minister

P.E.I. ag minister, ag critics re-elected

Potato wart survey gives clean bill of health

Canada’s potato crop edges up in 2022

Trudeau tours storm-hit Atlantic Canada as power outages persist

Fiona batters Eastern Canada’s farms, fishery

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