Star Trek for potatoes: can a hi-tech farm save french fries from the climate crisis?

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Researchers flock to New Brunswick, Canada, to test both cutting-edge and bygone methods of spud cultivation to meet a challenging futureAgainst a backdrop of blue skies and autumn leaves that would make an Instagram filter blush, a group of agricultural postgraduate students at a New Brunswick farm are tinkering with technology they hope will one day help solve an existential crisis: how to save the world’s potatoes.The Canadian farm in Florenceville is owned by the McCain family, heirs to a 65-year-old frozen food business that is now the largest manufacturer of frozen potato products in t ...

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