A stressful summer of excessive heat and drought cause certain varieties to not mature properly. This leads to a biochemical problem. High concentrations of sugars in the stem end of the tuber (where the tuber is attached to the mother plant by a stolon) causes...
Since we started farming, leap years have been unusual. 1992 was cool and wet; 1996 was wet and we had late blight; 2000 we had a wet summer with 85 mm of rain on my birthday, June 25th. 2008 was a cool, wet summer. So now,...
Who would have thought that in a temperate climate I could use my experience in the hot tropics? Do we need to develop heat tolerant varieties for Canada? I think so! These plants show heat stress through the long, white stolons that have not produced tubers. ...
