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Canada: P.E.I. potatoes rotting in storage
Some Island farmers are losing their entire potato crop to rot in storage, but the provincial agriculture minister says he is not considering it a disaster yet.
Grower Holland Cahill of Kildare in western P.E.I. has dumped all his potatoes — 900 tonnes. He was able to salvage a few to give away as cattle feed. The rest he has spread on his fields as fertilizer.
"The potatoes compress, the water hits the floor, any good potatoes are now being flooded with black water, and the damage is virtually impossible [to control] until you can get that area out of there," Cahill told CBC News Thursday.
"The problem we faced was that area was at the back of our major storage."
Following a very wet October, farmers across the Island are facing trouble with storage.
Agriculture Minister George Webster told CBC News Thursday he does not consider the storage problems a major disaster, and there are no plans for compensation from the government.
Webster noted he urged farmers back in the spring to buy crop insurance, and many of them did. About 68 per cent of last fall's crop is insured.
For farmers who have some of their crop remaining to sell, there remains the hope that the troubles could lead to a shortage of potatoes, which will in turn drive up the price.
Source: cbc.ca
Some Island farmers are losing their entire potato crop to rot in storage, but the provincial agriculture minister says he is not considering it a disaster yet.
Grower Holland Cahill of Kildare in western P.E.I. has dumped all his potatoes — 900 tonnes. He was able to salvage a few to give away as cattle feed. The rest he has spread on his fields as fertilizer.
"The potatoes compress, the water hits the floor, any good potatoes are now being flooded with black water, and the damage is virtually impossible [to control] until you can get that area out of there," Cahill told CBC News Thursday.
"The problem we faced was that area was at the back of our major storage."
Following a very wet October, farmers across the Island are facing trouble with storage.
Agriculture Minister George Webster told CBC News Thursday he does not consider the storage problems a major disaster, and there are no plans for compensation from the government.
Webster noted he urged farmers back in the spring to buy crop insurance, and many of them did. About 68 per cent of last fall's crop is insured.
For farmers who have some of their crop remaining to sell, there remains the hope that the troubles could lead to a shortage of potatoes, which will in turn drive up the price.
Source: cbc.ca
Publication date: 1/11/2010
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