Keeping the harvest

With fresh vegetable sales boosted by people cooking more at home during the COVID-19 pandemic, many potato fresh packers are...

One of the unforeseen consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic is the large increase in demand for fresh fruit and vegetables....

Farmer Heinz-Wilhelm Tölkes shows potatoes that come fresh from the ground. Photo: Norbert Prümen Kempen. In the farmers' fields it is becoming...

Written By: Bob Hesse, October 2012, Edited: Chip Hesse, September 2019  So last time we talked about the first steps,...

Written By: Bob Hesse, October 2012, Edited: Chip Hesse, September 2019 It is tough to fix problems that come into...

The potatoes have received all the attention throughout the season. The result: you harvest the best quality and the highest...

Wage goer Daan Biesheuvel of cold store Numansdorp and Gerben van Dueren den Hollander van Van Iperen are going to...

CIPC has been banned in the European Union since 1 January 2020. The expiry date for, among other things, the...

Important Potato Diseases and Tips to Manage them in Storage As the potato harvest is ongoing in many places and...

Without this tMRL, for which the entire European potato chain has worked, the situation for most potato sheds would have...

The 2020/21 potato storage season is proving to be one of the most challenging yet for the potato industry. With...

Potato growers have been warned of an increased risk of virus and disease in crops following the loss of diquat...

Chemical, mechanical, thermal or electrical defraying...? Several solutions are available to succeed in this intervention. The aim of the defeasing is to...

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Potato growers have sufficient alternatives to Chlorine IPC for long-term storage, according to storage research by Wageningen University & Research...

Arable farmers Henk and Rick Meijer use MH in their potatoes as standard for sprouting inhibition and controlling storage. For long-term...

Growing potatoes without plowing is good. There even seems to be a small plus financially, say Wageningen researchers. Does it make...