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Guide to Commercial Potato Production on the Canadian Prairies

 
 
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The Guide to Commercial Potato Production on the Canadian Prairies is a comprehensive guide to potato production and management. It provides up-to-date information for potato producers. The guide includes sections on botany; marketing and costs; varieties; seed selection, storage and cutting; planting management; field selection, soil management and fertility; irrigation; pest management; sprout inhibition in the field; harvest management; storage management; organic and pesticide free production; gourmet potato production and seed potato production. The Guide also includes color photos for weed, insect and disease identification.
The 107 page guide is in a binder format which allows for ease of addition of new information.

Guide to Commercial Potato Production on the Canadian Prairies is available from:
Western Potato Council
Box 545
Portage la Prairie, MB R1N 3B9
204-239-6932
kvpa@escape.ca
Click here for the order form.

The guide has not been published in full here on the web. If you want the full version with color plates and graphics, you'll want to purchase this excellent reference. The cost is $40.00 plus shipping and handling for $8.00 for the first copy and $3.00 for each additional copy.
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Table of Contents

Botany of the potato plantSprout inhibition in the field
Potato marketing and cost of productionHarvest management
Chemical maturity
Commercial potato production managementVine killing
VarietiesBruise prevention
Seed selection and purchase;
Seed cutting and planting ratesPotato storage management
Planting managementStorage structures and ventilation
Storage cycle
Field selection, soil management and fertilityStoring chemically immature potatoes
Field selection; crop rotationCIPC sprout inhibition
Herbicide residues and re-cropping
Field preparationFood safety
Soil conservation
Fertility and fertilizersOrganic and pesticide free production
Regulations and certification
IrrigationOrganic potato production practices
Pest management considerations
Pest Management
Pesticide resistance managementGourmet potato production
Insect management
Colorado potato beetleSeed potato production management
Flea beetleSeed Potato Act and Regulations
AphidsSeed potato production practices
LeafhoppersSeed selection, cutting, planting,
fertility and weed control
Wireworm
Variegated cutwormDisease prevention, roguing,
insect and irrigation
management
Weed management
Disease management
BacterialHarvest and storage
management
Fungal
Viral
EnvironmentalPost harvest testing
Seed grading and marketing
Contributing authors
 
 
 
 
For more information about the content of this document, contact Shelley Barkley.
This information published to the web on January 11, 2005.
Last Reviewed/Revised on September 24, 2008.