Working for Sustainable Potato Production

Our Mission
Our mission is to provide potato industry information, intelligence, and analysis, that allows producers to make timely informed production and marketing decisions.
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Our Vision
The United Potato Growers of Canada aims to be the source for information on the potato industry across Canada. With membership from coast to coast in all of the major potato-producing provinces, we work continuously to bring up-to-date information to the growers about the supply and demand of potatoes in Canada as well as the USA and Europe.
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Our Values
  • Integrity
  • Quality
  • Collaboration
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Working for Sustainable
Potato Production
Representing 8 provinces uniting to share best practices in potato production
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Planting 395,389 acres to produce 128,114,000 potatoes in 2023
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Of potatoes sold annually!!
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per person on average are eaten by Canadians each year
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Sponsor of the month

A well-established family business since 1950, Émile Sénéchal and Fils Ltd. is recognized both in Canada and the United States for its packaging products such as potato bags and other agricultural and industrial products. In 2014, Émile Sénéchal et Fils acquired its distributor of several years Sac Drummond inc. Founded in 1969, Sac Drummond has many years of experience in the agricultural bag market but also in the food, feed and chemical sectors. To date, Émile Sénéchal et Fils serves North America as a whole by offering a wide variety of multiwall paper packaging products.

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Canadian Potato Statistics:
Harvest Area (acres): 387,061. Number of Potato Farms in Canada: 951. Production (tonnes): 6,543,393. Total Sales Value: $ 1.5 billion in 2022.

Source: Potato Market Information Review, 2021-2022