Canada: Record yields for Manitoba potato growers in 2015

A long growing season boosted yields in a year when farmers had to 
contend with hail, heat, insects and disease, Manitoba potato growers harvested a record crop of spuds this fall, says Dan Sawatzky, manager of the Keystone Potato Growers Association Inc. Yields averaged 315 (hundredweight) bags an acre on 67,300 acres of processing, table, chipping and seed potatoes,” he[Read More...]