Fertilizers and pesticides

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....

Spreading traditional fertilizer causes a lot of loss of nutrients. In addition, the prices of fertilizers are rising due to the high energy costs. Substitutes such as nitrogen from chemical air scrubbers...

Arable farmers can use AgroVision's mineral planner to check their manure utilization space

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...

British potato growers can create a clean start to crops by switching the foundation of their broadleaved weed control plans to Shark (carfentrazone-ethyl). But, as with diquat, timing is key to success. ...

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...

Major crises throw sand in the machine of globalization and countries like Russia or China are then ready to protect their own interests. Fertilizers are an underestimated asset in that power...

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...

I had one field that had a pH of 8.5 and was high in calcium and magnesium, and even after one year of using SulphGro, our pH dropped to 7.4...

Just before Christmas, there was information that nitrogen fertilizers became more expensive. The price of ammonium nitrate exceeded PLN 4,000. PLN per tonne net. What now? Only a few companies have price lists and...

If you decide that the benefits of foliar fertilization are worth the cost, here are a few suggestions:

Rapidly rising fertilizer prices are causing serious concern among U.S. farmers and ranchers. Chad Smith has more on what farmers can expect to pay for the foreseeable future. Smith: Fertilizer prices...

To experience the effect of a soil scan, we followed this process for more than a year. 

Lime ammonium nitrate (KAS) now costs 625 euros per ton at the German import ports! So if you thought that fertilizer prices would stop rising - you were wrong. And...

DTN writer Russ Quinn reported last week that, “Average retail prices for most fertilizers continued to rise at a good clip the first partial week of December 2021, according to sellers surveyed by DTN....

Inagro is setting up two mobile washes for spraying equipment in the last weeks of the year.  Farmers can clean their sprayers there and the residues are also processed free...

Farmers in the US believe that high fertilizer prices are also due to market manipulation. They are calling for an investigation by the judiciary. A group of farmers in the US...

Today’s high fertilizer prices are hardly a secret. The underlying reasons for the cost of these critical products, however, are multiple, and ultimately determined by a complex interplay of domestic...

According to French researchers, tripling organic farms by 2030 costs less than subsidising pesticides

A Sinn Féin MEP has questioned the European Commission, members of which attended a sitting of the European Parliament Agricultural Committee last evening (November 30), on what can be done...

ABP’s Port of Ipswich is bucking the trend and seeing record amounts arrive at its shores.

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 results on the main BASF trial field with Allstar confirm the positive results of previous seasons. But the fungicide's benefits go beyond fighting rhizoctonia. “Actually, the results were better than...

economists expect high input prices to persist through spring.

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...

The economy is raising more than just prices as farmers question how to manage fertilizer investments in 2022. For Helena Agri-Enterprises, LLC, the answer lies beneath the surface. Soil health...

In an op-ed written by NCGA CEO Jon Doggett, he says fertilizer executives are bringing in climbing profits at the expense of farmers, referring to those fertilizer companies as the...

Growers want processors to offer higher prices to compensate for increased fertiliser costs.

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

The fertilizer prices are at a record level. Still, there is nothing to buy. What can farmers do? Strategies and their consequences Farmers are currently faced with difficult business decisions. The purchase prices for fertilizer and...

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,...

BASF Canada Agricultural Solutions has received registration from Health Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) for Veltyma™ Fungicide. Veltyma contains the unique active ingredient Revysol® which is the first and only Isopropanol-Azole,...

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...

A major new project will tackle pests in potatoes through the protection of clean land and the management of land already infested with pests. The project will focus specifically on...

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...

Soil fertilization does not always guarantee full availability of nutrients. Therefore, it is fully justified to supplement it with foliar feeding. Potato shows a varied (within quite wide limits) demand in...

In the progeny of the large haulm killing trial that Delphy carried out last year in potato seed potatoes, it seems that blowing and spraying gives a much better stem...

 The presence of the Colorado potato beetle on a potato field is quite a challenge. Especially for the organic grower, who prefers not to use any chemicals. Joris van der Kamp grew...