Agronomy

Biostimulants can act as an insurance policy for growers this spring, especially as another wave of frosts threatens to knock crops back. So far, winter has been wet and except...

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The aim must be to prevent erosion and allow the water to seep away slowly. One solution: transverse dams.

As the global population burgeons past 8 billion and climate change makes it harder to grow food, scientists in South America are tapping the power of wild potatoes to breed...

Work on the application of mineral fertilizers to the soil by the farms of Transbaikalia in 2022 increased by 10% compared to the previous year, said the head of the...

Belgian processors Agristo and Clarebout are leading the way with significant contract price increases for french fries grown during the 2023 growing season.Late last week, Agristo announced that the processor...

During a trip to the Tyumen region, Minister of Agriculture Dmitry Patrushev held a working meeting with the head of the region Alexander Moor. The parties discussed the current indicators...

University of Idaho Extension has published a new bulletin to help potato farmers recognize the symptoms of bacterial ring rot (BRR) and protect their operations from this devastating potato crop disease.   Idaho...

The ADAPT project aims at developing new strategies to make potatoes fit for the challenging growth conditions of the future. Similarly, variety testing needs new strategies to identify and understand the...

Life stages: eggs, wingless forms, winged forms. Aphids are small, soft-bodied, sucking insects 1–4 mm in length. Aphids affect the potato crop directly by feeding and indirectly by transmitting viruses...