US closed book for Canadian seed potato growers?

Seed potato growers of P.E.I. fear that the province's seed potato industry will fall victim to the cessation of potato shipments to the US in 2021, following a handful of potato wart detections. A ministerial ban on potato exports to the US was lifted just over a year ago, but restrictions on seed potatoes, which are grown for future crops, remain in place. This effectively prohibits shipments to and from the island and there is no clear end date in sight for the lifting of these federal restrictions. Potato growers Terry Curley thinks it's all over for good. The co-owner of Monaghan Farms in Summerfield had built a successful seed potato business, growing as much as 60 percent of the varieties used in Canada by the potato chips company Frito-Lay. However, he fears that the ...