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Canada: Potato shortage in Manitoba; processors shipping product from the US

on November 13, 2018

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Manitoba province has a potato shortage.Â Growers in the province had expected to produce about 22 million hundredweight of potatoes in 2018, but the actual total will be about nine percent less. â€œOur overall production was down about two million (cwt.),â€ said Dan Sawatzky, manager of the Keystone Potato Producers Association. â€œWe ended up with about 5,200 acres left in the[Read More...]

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