Growers across the Island are reacting with cautious optimism to news that they could soon be shipping potatoes south of the border after a 10-week hiatus.
FREDERICTON The federal agriculture minister is optimistic the United States could approve the resumption of shipments of Prince Edward Island potatoes to the key market of Puerto Rico within weeks.
The federal agriculture minister is optimistic the United States could approve the resumption of shipments of Prince Edward Island potatoes to the key market of Puerto Rico within weeks.
Hundreds of truckloads of P.E.I. potatoes will be heading to food banks from coast to coast to coast over the next six months, part of efforts to make use of surplus potatoes sitting in Island warehouses because of the export ban to the United States.
A P.E.I. company has brokered a deal to send as many as 700 tractor trailer loads of surplus P.E.I processing potatoes to a french fry plant in Alberta.