Those farming potatoes won't be too excited about the recent heat we had experienced, as the crop's growth actually gets stifled as it gets hotter outside.

Dan Sawatzky, manager of the Keystone Potato Producers Association, says when you have days where it gets to be about 30 degrees, that's when the plant starts to react negatively. He explains what happens with potatoes that experience that level of heat.

"The potato plant struggles in that kind of heat and it shuts down, so it actually loses the ability to grow and mature," notes Sawatzky. "Tails are a little smaller this year than we normally would like to see and maturity has taken place a bit later than normal."

He adds the harvest, which is now around 60 per cent done, actually began earlier this year. Regular harvests begin around mid-August whereas this harvest began towards the beginning of August. He goes into detail on some of the positives seen this year.

"We have not had any (blight) reported and lately they've been in spore traps set up over the last three years," explains Sawatzky. "We didn't catch any late blight spores either so that disease wasn't a problem this year."

He says despite all of the negatives surrounding this year, the potato harvest has a surprising amount of positives, as since the rain came and went before the harvest began for them, the potatoes were able to rebound.