Some fields are close to golf courses, so an errant tee shot could mean golf balls sometimes make their way to where potatoes ...

Potatoes account for $1.3 billion CAD in the PEI economy annually and provide more than 5,000 jobs. So, when the federal Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) halted exports of PEI potatoes to the US ...

Potatoes are a billion-dollar industry in PEI, which grows about 2.5 billion pounds each year. As American buyers look elsewhere for a more reliable supply, farmers say the ripples of the export ...

After two years of dry weather, potato farmers on Prince Edward Island were rejoicing. A plentiful 2021 yield on “Spud Island” — the Atlantic province that is Canada’s largest producer of ...

David and Brian Best, father and son potato farmers on Prince Edward Island, are using the crowd-funding site Indiegogo to try to raise $200,000 in a desperate attempt to save their family farm.

Cavendish Farms has advised the P.E.I. potato producers under contract to supply the company with spuds to "sell to other markets if they can," as the company deals with a sharp drop in demand for ...

Cavendish Farms Opening Photo Cavendish Farms Research Centre Opening PhotoNEW ANNAN, Prince Edward Island, Sept. 17, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cavendish Farms’ new Research Centre in New Annan ...

Most of the potatoes grown at the Harrington Research Farm used to be composted or mulched for animal food. Now they're going to feed Prince Edward Islanders in need.

Our Meat Lessons expert Sam Gundy and his team from Olliffe recently took a trip out to Prince Edward Island to see how the tiny province has begun producing, in hi… ...

Senators’ letter USDA should do more to keep potato wart from entering the country via imports from Prince Edward Island, Canada, 18 U.S. senators said in a letter to Agriculture […] ...

Green Thumb Farms sells potatoes in liquid and solid form on a national level. Posted January 31, 2016. ... Members include Red Isle in Prince Edward Island, Mack Farms in Florida, ...

Prince Edward Island potato industry Grew a fifth of Canada’s total area of potatoes in 2021 (34,508ha) Total revenues from PEI potatoes in 2020 was $371.8m (£223.9) ...