Prince Edward Island potato growers are hoping the new year will bring them a gushing geyser of permits to begin irrigating fields this year from deep water wells. They say science supports it and the ...

A Prince Edward Island potato truck is shown in front of the Canadian Parliament buildings in downtown Ottawa, Ontario. The Prince Edward Island Potato Board says the organization will closely monitor ...

A familiar trade fault line has reopened in Atlantic Canada. After the Canadian Food Inspection Agency confirmed potato wart in soil from one Prince Edward Island field, the Washington-based National ...

New United States restrictions intended to guard against potato wart could have a significant impact on some Prince Edward ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image by USDA APHIS The National Potato Council, joined by 13 U.S. state potato organizations, is calling on the U.S. Department ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The incidents (and they did happen more than once) all took place around Prince Edward Island in eastern Canada around 2014 and ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service says it made the changes in response to the detection of potato wart fungus in a soil sample from a P.E.I. farm in May.

A Canadian couple had a spud-tacular wedding with the help of a special guest — an 8 foot tall potato named Tate the Tater. Tate the Tater, the industry mascot for the Prince Edward Island Potato ...

Wild and wonderful Prince Edward Island (PEI), just a short hop off the Canadian mainland, is a place of lobster suppers, red foxes, Anne of Green Gables, red sand beaches and a coastline as dramatic ...