In this episode of SpudChat, we talk with Emily Murphy, a PhD Candidate at UBC who is working with the East Prince Agri-Environment Association as part of their research in using willow trees to prevent nutrients from moving to groundwater as well as sequestering carbon. Emily will talk a bit about willows and how they could fit for many types of potato fields.
We've convened our panel after the biweekly Fieldworkers Meeting again. This time, Ryan is joined by Lorraine MacKinnon with the PEI Dept of Agriculture & Land as well as Dr. Christine Noronha, entomologist with AAFC in Charlottetown. We talk about european corn borer control, an explosion of earwigs, healthy and vigorous looking crops, and volunteer control.
What better time to talk to potato growers than after some rain! This week on SpudChat, we check in with three potato growers from across PEI to hear how the crop is looking and what's new on their farms this year. We talk to Marshall Smallman of Smallman Farms in Knutsford, Matt Ramsay of Oyster Cove Farms in Hamilton and Ben Visser of GWR Visser Farms in Orwell.
On this edition of SpudChat, we've convened a panel of PEI potato experts to review some of the comments we heard as part of the first biweekly fieldworkers meeting as well as our own observations of the crop. Joining Ryan this week are Lorraine MacKinnon with the PEI Department of Agriculture and Land; Steve Watts, agronomist with Genesis Crop Systems; and Greg Donald, General Manager of the PEI Potato Board.
In this episode of SpudChat, we talk with Don Jardine, a researcher/instructor/consultant with the University of Prince Edward Island's Climate Lab. Don is working with their team to install a number of new weather stations across the province in an effort to more accurately capture the regional variability in climate that we see in PEI as well as hopefully improve forecasts in the future.
For this month's Grower Check-In, we talk to Bryan Maynard of FarmBoys Inc. in Arlington, Gordon McKenna of Country View Farms in Newton, and Chris MacAulay of MacAulay Farms in Chepstow to talk about how planting went, how the crop is looking, and anything new on the farm this season.
In this episode of SpudChat, Ryan is talking about some of the trials that are underway looking at the effect of different rotation crops on improving soil health and suppressing soil borne diseases, including potato early dying.
In this episode of SpudChat, we talk to Dr. Mathuresh Singh of Agricultural Certification Services in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Mathuresh and his team have been working on research into Potato Virus Y (PVY) over the last decade, providing a great deal of recommendations for seed growers on how to prevent the spread of PVY in their fields. We chat about some of his past research findings and how that has been implemented on the farm in New Brunswick and beyond.
In this episode of SpudChat, we talk with Mary Kay Sonier, Seed Coordinator at the PEI Potato Board, about all things seed potatoes. Specifically, we talk about variety evaluation and some promising new varieties in PEI, managing PVY, and a bunch of other seed-related topics. For more on many of these topics, visit www.peipotatoagronomy.com for factsheets, presentations and more.
For this edition of SpudChat, we do our first Grower Check-In with Prince Edward Island potato growers across the province. We learn about three different farms, get an update on how planting is going, and what these growers are doing differently on their farms in 2021. This week we talk with Jonathan MacLennan of MacLennan Properties in West Cape; Brandon MacPhail of MacSull Farms in New London; and Becky Townshend of Townshend Potato Company in Rollo Bay West. Recorded on May 24th, 2021....
In this week's episode of SpudChat, we talk with Dr. Claudia Goyer, plant pathologist with Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada in Fredericton, NB about common scab, the old nemesis of potato farmers everywhere. We talk about how common scab happens and some of the reasons why it is such a challenge to control. We also talk about Claudia's research as part of the national Potato Cluster research project on common scab, including some promising new results using a conventional product. Check out ww...
In this episode of SpudChat, we talk to Sebastian Ibarra of the PEI Department of Agriculture & Land to talk about Integrated Pest Management and some of the different IPM programs available from the Department. For more about the PEIDAL programs, visit: https://www.princeedwardisland.ca/en/information/agriculture-and-land/beneficial-management-practices-sub-program
In this episode of SpudChat, we talk to Evan MacDonald, Senior Precision Agronomist with Croptimistic Technology Inc covering Eastern Canada. Evan has previously worked with both the PEI Department of Agriculture and Cavendish Agri-Services and has a passion for precision agriculture and field mapping. He is also a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Prince Edward Island, studying how soil electroconductivity and elevation can be integrated into to create management zones for variable rate seed...
In this episode of SpudChat, we talk with Dr. Rick Peters of Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada in Charlottetown, PEI about his work on fungal diseases in potatoes. A wide-ranging conversation talking about late blight, early blight, black dot, and more.
Welcome to the first episode of SpudChat, the weekly podcast talking about the potato industry in Prince Edward Island and beyond! In this episode, host Ryan Barrett provides an overview of what SpudChat is all about, as well as a brief overview of some of the types of research and agronomy projects that are being done as part of the Agronomy Initiative for Marketable Yield (AIM). For more information on many of these projects, visit www.peipotatoagronomy.com!
