It was a squeaker, but Alberta edged out P.E.I. and Manitoba as the country’s top potato producer this year.
StatCan says provincial growers harvested 26.8 million hundredweight of spuds, just ahead of P.E.I.’s 26.6 million and Manitoba’s 26.1 million. Last year, P.E.I. – aka Spud Island – was the top dog but even though its yield per acre slightly increased, production fell because of a drop in acres.
Manitoba was up slightly on both yield and acreage but Alberta did better on both scores. Overall, there were more than 71,000 acres of potatoes harvested in the province.
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Collectively, Canadian growers harvested a record crop for the second year in a row, growing 123 million cwt., a 0.8 per cent increase.
