McCain Foods has announced its largest investment ever in expanding a potato processing plant in Coaldale, Alberta. McCain will double the size of the plant at a cost of 600 million dollars. The plant employs 225 people and will create 260 new jobs. McCain Foods says the company will work toward a goal of […]
Federal agriculture minister Marie-Claude Bibeau was in Washington Thursday to try and resolve a potato trade issue with her U.S. counterpart. Bibeau urged U.S. agriculture secretary Tom Vilsack to proceed as quickly as possible with the risk analysis of exporting Prince Edward Island table stock potatoes to the U.S. Canada put a halt to potato […]
Regina-based Farm Credit Canada is offering support to farmers in Prince Edward Island who could be facing cash flow challenges following a ban on PEI spuds to the U.S. All shipments of potatoes from PEI to the U.S. have been suspended after the discovery of a fungus, potato wart, on two PEI farms. FCC […]
The University of Saskatchewan says scientists are using the synchrotron to study scab disease in potatoes. Its part of the ongoing battle against antibiotic resistant bacteria, which may prove helpful in controlling common plant diseases and other toxins. A professor of cellular biology at the University of Guelph, Dr. Rod Merrill, is pursuing an […]
