Growing seeds

Potato pink eye is a disorder that often starts with pink, water-soaked areas around the eyes of the tuber —...

Critical shortage of quality seed of productive and adaptive varieties is probably the major constraint to potato production in SSA...

The National Potato Council and KFC in Kenya have identified the Markies potato variety as a suitable variety that farmers in that...

In each Sub-Saharan African (SSA) country, there is a potato research and development that involves many actors (partners) ranging from...

In order to be less dependent on Scottish seed potatoes, the Irish Farmers Association (IFA) is asking the Irish government...

Partnerships to Strengthening the Potato Value Chain At the African Potato Association conference in Addis Ababa in 2016, workshops were...

A life in farming seemed to be preordained for Mike Telford. “I grew up in Utah in Bountiful. My father...

One more tuber per meter of potato ridge can yield 250 euros extra per hectare. With 40 to 50 hectares of...

Every year new varieties starts making the rounds. For decades, plant breeders and researchers across North America have spent countless hours meticulously...

A fourth-generation potato farming and marketing family in North Dakota is leaping into a new era of electronic potato grading....

(NOTE: This is the first of a two-part series on the Vision 2026 program to rethink the seed potato certification...

A recent Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) report shows that in Europe, the seed trade is in full swing, with large...

Some potato farms in Aroostook County, Maine have histories dating back to the early 1800s. Daniel Corey’s operation is not...

The potato breeding world is taking in the whole picture when it comes to diploids.  The words diploids and true...

Idaho’s potato industry uses to produce about 90% of the potatoes grown in Idaho

A project run by Universal Robina Corp (URC) and the Philippine government has provided a valuable boost to the country’s...

     "How many seed potatoes would you like to purchase? Okay, I will mark it out for you." Still a...

The transition from old crop to new crop potatoes is taking place right now, and two potato industry observers report...

Plant breeding as a key technology for sustainable farming into the future: In its “2030 Sustainability Ambition,” the plant breeding...

Due to a crisis in imported quality seed varieties, right now it’s impossible to meet the demand for high-grade processed...

Potatoes in Practice, the UK’s largest field event for potatoes and a highlight of the season for the sector bringing together...

The seed potato chain, represented by LTO Nederland, Plantum NL and the Dutch Potato Organization (NAO), is very concerned about...

In the progeny of the large haulm killing trial that Delphy carried out last year in potato seed potatoes, it...

Due to the wet spring, the last potatoes were not planted until the end of May.

In the past five decades, potato production in India has steadily increased from around 8.3 million tonnes in 1980 to...