date:Dec 26, 2022
According to the December 7 release by Statistics Canada, the 2022 potato harvest in Canada yielded 120 million hundredweight, a 0.8 percent increase year over year. This is the second consecutive record potato production for Canada and is due to slight increases in both seeded area and yield.
Alberta led the way this year, with yields up 8.9 percent overall to 26.8 million hundredweight, producing 21.8 percent of Canadian potatoes. Prince Edward Island produced 21.6 per cent of the national av