Potato Harvest Expected To Start In Coming Days

Sep 03, 2020

The province's potato harvest is expected to get underway in the coming days.

Vikram Bisht with Manitoba Agriculture, explains how the crop is looking.

"The potato crop has actually started doing very good," he said. "There were a few rain showers in some of the potato growing areas which helped many of the farmers. I would say the rains have been quite scattered but there were some good showers that some of the dry land areas got. Most of the irrigated fields are doing pretty good."

Bisht says there were no reported cases of late blight in Manitoba on potatoes or tomatoes. Early blight disease was extremely minor due to a good fungicide program. Aphid populations were low which Bisht says should lead to better seed quality in the coming year.

He expects potato harvest to get underway during the next week or so.

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