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We've been irrigation the potatoes intensively for several weeks now, with increasingly tight shifts

Biostimulants, used in the right way, make the crop more resilient. How? In the last Newsletter we told you what abiotic factors are...

In order to guarantee high-quality standards of the Potato of Bologna PDO, all of us producers are carefully monitoring the...

After conducting experiments with treatments to improve the behavior of a Creole potato crop under conditions of water deficit

The relatively wet spring has a different impact on the companies of the NPPL participants. This is apparent from a telephone...

In an effort to increase agricultural productivity and limit waste, a team of researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem...

Rising temperatures resulting from climate change is exposing more potato crops to the damaging extremes of heat stress more frequently.

many farmers have not yet made adapting to the effects of the climate emergency a priority.

As a historic drought ravages farms and ranches throughout the Klamath Basin on the California-Oregon border there are visible signs...

Welcome rays of sunshine bring a danger to health for those who work outdoors over prolonged periods

During April 2021 we experienced cold dry conditions which haven’t been seen in some years. Moving into May much of...

Many growers experienced an April to rival one of the driest on record (1938 and 1974 both saw less than...

The start of the potato growing season is going according to plan in large parts of the country, unlike last...

With the exception of the southwest, the start of the potato growing season is late. But the soil structure is fine,...

Cornell-led study shows that global farming productivity is 21% lower than it could have been without climate change

Because little snow fell in large parts of Groningen at the beginning of last week, the chances in this part...

Many overwintering aphids have died due to the severe frost of the past week

POTATO / CEPEA: Rains in potato harvest intensifies

farmers still fear that (part of) their harvest will be lost. "Better give us a lot of snow,"

The climate crisis continued unabated in 2020, with the joint highest global temperatures on record, alarming heat and record wildfires...

Salinisation of the soil results in a loss of 1,166 euros per hectare during the cultivation of potatoes in the...

It is common to think that food crops are going to suffer negative effects due to the increase in global...

2020 was, together with 2014, the hottest year since at least 1901, the start of the weather measurements. This is reported...

Potato harvesting has once again been affected by wet weather, with widespread rainfall in recent weeks hampering grower efforts to...

The harvest is ready, it went very smoothly this year. However, the devil was in the tail: During the last days...

Data-driven decisions based on weather information are helping East Anglian farms cut the cost and environmental impact of crop spraying...

The farmers whose crops were left unharvested were waiting for rain to soften the dirt lumps so they wouldn’t bruise...