P.E.I. potato farmers were hoping for a green light to resume exporting fresh P.E.I. potatoes to the United States. But the six-week deadline since the meeting with the American secretary of agriculture has come and gone, with no response.
Both the P.E.I. Potato Board and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency are saying it is not unexpected that there has been a third detection of potato wart, this one found in soil samples taken in October 2021.