Exchange rate a draw for shipping Canadian potatoes
The supply of conventional potatoes from PEI is good. “Between PEI and Ontario East and New Brunswick, there’s enough inventories on hand to get us through our normal time frames of late June to the middle of July. The same would be said of the processing industry as well,” says Dwayne Coffin of Vanco Produce Ltd.
PEI had an average yield for this 2023-2024 crop though as of
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