{"id":47083,"date":"2026-08-17T18:28:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T22:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=47083"},"modified":"2026-08-17T18:29:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T22:29:00","slug":"the-workforce-is-changing-how-automation-is-reshaping-the-potato-industry-and-the-people-who-keep-it-running","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=47083","title":{"rendered":"The workforce is changing: How automation is reshaping the potato industry \u2013 and the people who keep it running"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.potatonewstoday.com\/2026\/08\/16\/the-workforce-is-changing-how-automation-is-reshaping-the-potato-industry-and-the-people-who-keep-it-running\/?ICID=ref_fark\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Marketable-yield.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:278px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Labour shortages in the potato industry are prompting increased investment in automation technologies like optical sorting and autonomous equipment. While these advancements can enhance efficiency \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.potatonewstoday.com\/2026\/08\/16\/the-workforce-is-changing-how-automation-is-reshaping-the-potato-industry-and-the-people-who-keep-it-running\/\">The workforce is changing: How automation is reshaping the potato industry \u2013 and the people who keep it running<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Labour shortages in the potato industry are prompting increased investment in automation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[18,985,482],"class_list":["post-47083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-economics","tag-pei","tag-potato","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47083"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47086,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47083\/revisions\/47086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}