Southern Alberta potato processing industry fried by COVID-19

Add Alberta’s potato industry to the businesses being devastated by COVID-19.  Southern Alberta’s big three potato processors Cavendish Farms, McCain Foods, and Lamb Weston have cut the total size of contracted acreage this spring by 20 to 25 per cent, due to plummeting french fry sales due to restaurant closures. “75 percent of the french fry industry is QSR (Quick Service Restaurants) in western Canada, and that’s come to a screeching halt,” says Terrance Hoc