Toronto Star: With regenerative potato production practices, soil knows its place

Linda Schott, chair of potato sustainability and a professor at the University of Manitoba, believes producers and indeed the whole potato sector is making progress on regenerative agriculture.

She said the most obvious way that potatoes fit with regenerative agriculture principles is that they are never grown repeatedly in the same field. Instead, producers like the Perrys alternate or “rotate” potatoes with grains, oilseeds and other crops. In that way, potato-specific plant diseases and insects don’t have enough time to gain a foothold in a field. And farmers don’t have to invest in as many expensive pesticides to control them.

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