The Heritage Acres Farm Museum just outside Pincher Creek, Alta., has organized a new initiative to donate 100 per cent of harvested potatoes and carrots to the town’s food bank.

Farmers are asking Belgians to do the patriotic thing and eat 750,000 tons of potatoes that can't be exported due to coronavirus lockdowns.

Sylvain Charlebois says the negative effects of the coronavirus on the ag industry could outlast the pandemic without federal help.

Potato growers are the latest to push for help, asking Ottawa for "urgent required interventions" as demand for french fries has all but disappeared.

A Manitoba clinical trial is testing if a starch derived from raw potatoes can slow the damaging effects of chronic kidney disease.

This year, Smoke's Poutinerie brought in more than 12,000 pounds of potatoes nationwide, and that includes a donation to the Partners in Mission Food Bank on Friday.

Approximately 12,000 acres of potatoes were left unharvested this year – around 18 per cent of Manitoba's harvest.

A Winnipeg woman is angry and frustrated after she says 80 pounds of potatoes were stolen from her community garden.

Cavendish Farms says the closure by the end of the year will affect 40 employees but some seasonal workers will be hired when the facility switches to a storage role.

Potato production has spiked in Alberta over the decades, according to ATB Financial. Last year, the province produced over two billion pounds of the crop, more than it ever had before.