
Finding the right niche
If it makes you shake your head that these two large, sophisticated farms are focusing on, of all things, sweet potatoes as the right crop to build their futures on, listen to them explain why

Alberta potatoes mostly escape the deluge of 2016
A bit of luck, combined with tile drainage, helped Alberta potato growers survive the province’s wet 2016 season

Sweet potato experts win World Food Prize
The foursome has worked to improve nutrition in sweet potatoes

Wild varieties
A set of wild South American potato varieties with Colorado potato beetle resistance have donated genetic material to their North American cousins

Hard wired
Several factors are encouraging the return of an old pest enemy — the wireworm group — that had long been a thing of the past for Canadian farmers