Potatoes

[GDR]

Sorry, the U.S. did not ban shipments from Canada,,, Canada's own Canadian Food Inspection Agency stopped the export of PEI potatoes to the U.S.

Here's a quote from the link below;
"The P.E.I. Potato Board says it is "shocked" the Canadian Food Inspection Agency has suspended the movement of all fresh potatoes from P.E.I. to the United States, following the discovery of potato wart on two different Island farms in October."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-potato-wart-us-exports-1.6257856

My point again, why didn't CFIA stop potatoes from the inflicted farms, rather than stopping all potatoes from PEI from being exported?

Sounds like it would make sense to just deal with the couple farms in question and I hope that is basically what they are doing behind the scenes. Having said that it was explained that it was a proactive move to shut off exports so that the US didn't block imports. Idea being we can change our own rule but once theirs is in place it's much harder to convince them to take our product again. Makes sense to me, took a long time to convince the world to open up again after BSE and it is a much more protectionist economy now.

I think it's mostly about seed potatoes anyhow it's not the whole industry, can still export fries etc.

[WiltonRanch]

Where does this put the seed potato industry in western Canada? Will they be able to export or is this country wide? Seed exports are big money for Canadian spud growers. Northern vigour is a sought after thing.

[blackpowder]

Let's see what their govt support looks like. Maybe we should all vote for Justin?......

Ya, I'm joking.