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November 30, 2018 |
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A worldwide shortage of potatoes, as a result of a hot dry growing season and wet cold harvest, has the potential to drive up the price for potatoes. The unusually hot dry growing season in Europe also affected the supply of seed potatoes, which will have a domino effect on next year's harvest.
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The fungus currently wreaking havoc on Ontario corn requires large wounds to penetrate tubers and the cut surface of seed pieces can provide an easy entry for the pathogen. Growers planting potatoes after corn are advised to use a seed-piece treatment effective against Fusarium.
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Syngenta Canada announces the registration of Vibrance Ultra Potato as a new seed treatment for the suppression of pink rot, a soil-borne storage disease.
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Now you can make yield-robbing nematodes a thing of the past, and expect more out of your crop. It even offers early blight protection. To integrate it into your potato protection program, apply it in-furrow at planting. And give your potato yield a chance at being out of this world.
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Whether it was too hot or too cold, it was not just right for potatoes this year. Approximately 15,000 acres, representing almost 5 per cent of Canada’s potato acreage, had to be abandoned and will have implications for the potato supply this marketing season. Prince Edward Island makes up almost half of the unharvested acres, while Quebec, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta make up the rest.
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