Insights and Stories on Prince Edward Island

P.E.I. finance minister moves to ag file

Jul. 19, 2022 at 3:36 am CDT

Prince Edward Island’s deputy premier now handles the provincial agriculture file following a cabinet shuffle Friday. Premier Dennis King has named Darlene Compton, MLA for the riding of Belfast-Murray River, as minister of agriculture and land, justice and public safety minister and attorney general, replacing Stanhope-Marshfield MLA Bloyce Thompson. Thompson, […]

P.E.I. seed potato producers backed for ‘soil-building’

May. 20, 2022 at 10:23 pm CDT

By Liam O’Connor

Supply chain improvement funds pledged in federal budget

Apr. 7, 2022 at 6:56 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

P.E.I. table stock potato exports to U.S. now allowed

Apr. 2, 2022 at 12:40 am CDT

By Dave Bedard

Mainland U.S. moving to resume P.E.I. potato imports

Mar. 24, 2022 at 1:55 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

P.E.I. testing finds potato wart in another field

Mar. 8, 2022 at 8:10 pm CST

Soil samples taken on Prince Edward Island following detections of potato wart last fall have turned up another field with the fungus that causes the disease. The P.E.I. Potato Board on Tuesday said the field in question is near to, and is “directly associated” with, a field where the soil-borne […]

By Dave Bedard

P.E.I. potato exports cleared for Puerto Rico

Feb. 8, 2022 at 8:29 pm CST

A U.S. territory with an appetite for Canadian potatoes and no commercial potato production to speak of will be able to resume imports of table stock potatoes from Prince Edward Island starting Wednesday. The resumption of exports to Puerto Rico, announced Tuesday, is a spot of good news for the […]

By Dave Bedard

Canada hopeful for P.E.I. table potato trade in weeks to Puerto Rico, U.S. mainland

Jan. 27, 2022 at 6:06 pm CST

Reuters — Canada is hopeful of resuming shipments of table potatoes from the province of Prince Edward Island to the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico in two weeks, and to the U.S. mainland in the weeks following that, partially resolving a trade dispute, Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau said. Bibeau met […]

By Rod Nickel

‘Expedited’ potato wart survey helps make case for P.E.I., CFIA says

Dec. 24, 2021 at 12:40 pm CST

A national survey finding no potato wart in any “unregulated” Canadian fields should offer the reassurance on Prince Edward Island potatoes that trading partners such as the U.S. are now looking for, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency says. CFIA on Thursday reported it has completed this fall’s national survey for […]

By Dave Bedard

Feds put up funds toward managing P.E.I. potato surplus

Dec. 20, 2021 at 9:50 pm CST

Prince Edward Island potatoes locked out of the U.S. export market will go either to food banks or “environmentally-sound” disposal with new federal funding. Federal Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau on Monday announced $28 million “to support the diversion of surplus potatoes, including help to redirect surplus potatoes to organizations addressing […]

By Dave Bedard

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