Сrop protection

Mop-top virus is a serious disease that affects potato crops, leading to significant yield losses and quality reduction. In this article, we will discuss the causes and symptoms of mop-top...

Potato farming is an essential component of agriculture, providing nourishing food to millions of people worldwide. However, potato crops can be vulnerable to various diseases, including the Potato Y Virus....

The Office of the Rosselkhoznadzor for the city of Moscow, the Moscow and Tula regions monitored the quarantine phytosanitary condition of land plots of private farms in the Belevsky district...

The world has long begun a boom around organic products that must meet certain criteria, including being environmentally friendly. And how to achieve the desired purity, if almost all crops...

A new database of 19 insect genomes, including the world's most dangerous pests, has been created in the UK to improve crop protection, FarmingUK reports on February 8. The genomes...

Pesticides have proven effective in protecting crop yield against plant pathogens, but the environmental detriment to nontarget organisms has prompted a tug-of-war between organic and conventional agriculture practices. This poses the...

The Plant Protection Environmental Indicator (MIG) will be available for use in 2024. This allows farmers and gardeners to monitor and reduce the environmental impact of plant protection products. This...

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Scientists at the University of Utah have announced ambitious plans - today work is underway to create fertilizers based on nanotechnology. Experts note that the innovative fertilizer will not only...

The study was carried out as part of the Priority 2030 program. Scientists from the Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology of the Institute of Biology and Biomedicine (IBBM) of UNN...

In 2022, the Dutch Food and Commodity Authority (NVWA) identified eight cases of warts caused by the fungus Synchytrium endobioticum in potato cultivation.This concerns eight agricultural plots of seven different...

Strong demand and higher pricing characterized the potato market in early November, and tight market conditions are expected to continue through the holidays, as Tom Karst reports for The Packer magazine. He writes that...

Australian grocer Woolworths Group said heavy rain may keep squeezing supply of farm-based staples, including potato chips, as soaring shelf prices contributed to a decline in first-quarter food sales, according to...

With harvest well underway, the Idaho Potato Commission says this year’s crop looks like a winning one, according to a report by RFD-TV. The Commission says even though the weather has...

After two dry years out of four, many farmers are seriously considering the future viability of a water hungry crop like potatoes, as John Sleigh reports for The Scottish Farmer. An exceptionally dry...

The growing threat of antimicrobial resistance has led researchers to search for new compounds everywhere, according to a news release issued by the American Society for Microbiology. This week in mBio, a multinational...

The Red River Valley potato crop has overcome getting into the ground later than optimal to looking like one of the best in the last few years, said farmers and...

Europe’s blisteringly hot summer is forecast to result in the smallest potato crop in years, threatening further price rises for popular foods such as fries just as consumers contend with...

As North American potato growers are working to maximize their yield potential for the 2022 harvest, it’s also time to start thinking about maximizing crop potential for the 2023 season,...

Retail sales and home consumption have plateaued again in Ireland due to soaring temperatures and peak holidays period, according to the weekly potato market report issued by the Irish Farmers Association (IFA)....

Potato farmers in Þykkvabær, Iceland’s spud capital, are optimistic about this year’s harvest. This is despite the presence of potato blight, a fungus that decimated last year’s potato crop. Domestic...

Temperatures in the South West region of the Netherlands and the United Kingdom reached 40 degrees Celsius last week, putting a strain on potato crops that are not irrigated. The...

Phytophthora control is not getting any easier. The fungus can spread faster and faster, while the options for growers to protect their crops continue to decrease. More than ever, an...

Are you using the right fungicides to protect for the potato diseases you are attempting to control? Understanding how fungicides work can help you choose the right product and apply it for...

Improving the reliability of trap cropping to help farmers overcome potato cyst nematode (PCN) pressure, is being investigated as part of a new feasibility study, funded by Defra and Innovate...

Featured image: Rosé Walla Walla Sweets, photo courtesy of Michael Locati with Locati Farms and Pacific Agra Farms MARKETWalla Walla:Michael Locati with Locati Farms and Pacific Agra Farms told us...

Project seeks to stimulate PCN to hatch outside of potato planting times IMPROVING the reliability of trap cropping to help farmers overcome potato cyst nematode (PCN) pressure, is being investigated...

Several video clips showing many areas across China where potatoes and other crops are “grown” on cement floors or even on basketball courts, have been making the rounds on the...

Colorado potato beetle (CPB) populations have an amazing ability to develop resistance to insecticides — including many of the carbamate, organophosphate, pyrethroid, spinosyn, and neonicotinoid insecticides that are used today.

A team of researchers in Manitoba have found success using mustard biofumigation to rid fields of Verticillium wilt. Editor’s note: This interview has been edited for length and clarity.  Spud...

Farmers throughout southern and eastern Idaho were befuddled by the bizarre symptoms of crop damage that surfaced in their potato fields following a brief period of heavy rainfall

Uzbekistan’s forecasted potato crop volume in 2022 is pegged at 4.1m tons, which is 26% or 850.000 tons more than the last year’s total, estimates based on the 243.000 ha...

The Colorado potato beetle has evolved resistance to more than 50 different kinds of insecticides, making the insect a “super pest” that wreaks havoc on potatoes around the world. New...

We are actively joining farmers in the real fight against the Colorado Potato Beetle (CPB), bringing the most effective tool for preventing and monitoring this pest, now with a special layer which...

The importance of studying 3. Farm management & crop production techniques Guta practices crop rotation by renting land from others. He uses the recommended spacing and applies recommended fertilizer rates....

New advice for in-furrow application of Amistar during potato planting will achieve a more complete zone of protection around the mother tuber when using modern high-speed belt planters, advises Syngenta...

Using these fumigants to control soil-borne diseases had positive effects on the crop beyond disease control. Total and marketable yield and tuber set were higher in plots treated with either...

MAINE'S latest potato crop in the USA was so big that railroads were being used for the first time in 40 years to transport it. The 2021 harvest made history for...

Herbicides are an important weed management tool for agriculture. The use of herbicides in multiple crops makes it necessary to track what has been applied to crops in rotation with...

During the event, one farmer asked: “Can a soil test help determine the need for a fungicide application, and does healthy soil correlate with less need for fungicide?” Ken Ferrie,...

The US Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s chip potato industry absorbs annually almost 83,000 tons of primarily white spuds, locally produced. To keep that flow, the farmers rely on the potato research...

Growing shortages of crop protection and sharply rising prices are signs of the next supply crisis.

A lot of potatoes are coming out of the ground this fall covered in warty-looking growths. But the good news is that, as unappetizing as it makes the tuber look,...

Pragati, Koraput with International Potato Center (CIP), Bhubaneswar and Government of Odisha, have initiated Potato cultivation in Koraput district of South Odisha through the Small Farmers Large Field project. CIP...

An annual inspection of buildings and hardware is an important step in store preparation before the new potato crop can come in for the winter, according to AHDB Potatoes. For...

Not all robust potato varieties will survive this year when it comes to phytophthora resistance

In its newsletter from the beginning of this week, the Research Center for Potato Cultivation PCA and Inagro discussed the question of whether it is already time to use maleic...

Wire needles are a growing problem in potatoes. In more and more places damage is found in the crops in the field. There are virtually no chemicals left for this pest. Klaas...

The sanitary strategy begins with the soil work and the choice of the potato variety. It is convenient to analyze possible problems with the rains that have fallen until late in...

Potato growers on P.E.I. are turning to technology to help them track spores from late blight and other airborne diseases that could damage their crops.  One of the companies doing...