Canada’s Alberta potato growers concerned as 2020 harvest gets underway

on August 20, 2020

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While the 2020 potato harvest is well underway in southern Alberta, the Potato Growers of Alberta say lingering concerns about global french fry markets due to COVID-19 is putting a bit of a damper on an otherwise joyful time of year for local potato farmers, reports Tim Kalinowski for the Lethbridge Herald.