Potatoes set harvest record

Agronomic news
06 déc 2024

Source: Western Producer

It was a fantastic year for potato growers as Canada set another record for potato production. Farmers harvested nearly 127 million hundred weight of spuds in 2024, breaking last year’s record of 126.593 million cwt., says a Statistics Canada report released December 5. Read more on the record-breaking year from this Western Producer article.

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