Keeping the harvest

The Haanstra partnership in Luttelgeest (NOP) is fully committed to the long-term storage of their ware potatoes.

many potato batches that need additional sprouting inhibition.

Pressure bruise is a major defect and source of economic losses in potatoes for all market classes. Reasons pressure bruise...

Hazel Technologies Inc., Chicago, has a new product, Hazel Root, that’s designed to protect the quality of potatoes in storage by preventing...

The Federal Office for Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) approved the use of the germ inhibitor 1,4SIGHT on December...

A number of potato growers from Flevoland have set up a study group together with Omnivent, on the storage of...

Emmeloord - Over the past two years, Olaf van Campen from Adama has gained knowledge of an electronic potato. This is...

The storage season offers a plethora of potential challenges for potato growers. These challenges can include shrink, sprouting, bruising and...

Austrian cooperative Rheintaler Feldfrüchte about the new storage capacity Twelve months a year, fresh, regional potatoes, onions and other open...

While temperature is probably the most important potato storage concern, another important step in storing potatoes is ensuring adequate relative...

Exclusive patent licensed from University of Idaho.Mustard-derived fumigation of stored food – targeting vegetables and potatoes.Leading agrochemical for sprout suppression...

Potatoes harvested early for the rainy period (late August and early September) under high temperatures are now very restless. It was...

The farm of Tremonvilliers (Oise) is equipped with a TOMRA 3A to sort its potato and red beet crops. The...

We are currently seeing a lot of germination in the various potato storage areas. It is important to check regularly, because...

Optimal storage practices start in the field and can hinge on a variety of factors and conditions, both with the...

Potato crisp manufacturing is a competitive industry, one where efficiency is a crucial factor in staying ahead of the competition. Wyma’s...

The Mansholt family is a household name in North Groningen. For generations they have been growing seed potatoes, grain, beets and...

Let’s take a look at steam peeling of fruits and vegetables with TOMRA Food, one of the world’s biggest manufacturers of...

With a view to the elimination of chlorpropham, Agrifirm has conducted proactive research in recent years into alternative solutions for...

It is the dawn of a new era in the sustainable packaging sector: Sorma Group is introducing fruit and vegetable...

TOMRA Food has introduced the TOMRA 3A sensor-based sorting machine for freshly harvested root crops, offering potato growers unrivalled sorting...

Presorting collected products is not yet popular with Russian farmers and food manufacturing plants. And yet the situation is changing...

The potato farmers of the producers' cooperative do not have an easy task: the tubers that have been cultivated and...

“You can humidify and disinfect a potato storage warehouse's air using just water and UV. No chemicals," says Jef Viaene...

Quality and traceability, two important requirements of potato fresh packing, are threatened by market disruptions arising from the COVID-19 pandemic....

Eric Anderson, Senior Agronomist at Scottish Agronomy looks at some key issues to be thinking about ahead of potato storage...

Leuven, Belgium, 20 November 2019 – By using the TOMRA 3A high-performance sorting machine Duchemin (Caen) are able to ensure...

Potato growers are facing an increasing challenge. The changing climate has long required a new approach to potato storage. Since the 2020...

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...

"  Inter Agra company is the world's largest producer of professional wooden boxes, we are a global company, we carry...

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...