We’re not eating french fries. Why? Restaurant trade has all but shut down. That’s a huge problem for our potato farmers who, collectively, are stuck with 1.4 million tonnes of potatoes from last year’s crop they cannot sell because ...

.. french fry makers, like McCain's and Cavendish Farms, have freezers full of french fries they cannot sell. They don't want any more potatoes. Meanwhile ...

Now is the time to plant potatoes for the 2020 crop. But what to do when you can't sell last year's crop? Tonight on @GlobalNational I talk to farmer Pat Owen from Carman, MB. Here's the 19 million pounds of spuds on his farm that no wants to buy.