AGROTECHNOLOGY

Your fields may be covered in snow right now, but we all know that a potato grower’s work never truly...

Arable farm Mesken from Appelscha is focusing on capacity with a Dezeure TransMax, so that significant growth can be achieved...

Farmers in the US believe that high fertilizer prices are also due to market manipulation. They are calling for an investigation...

Allan Equipment has taken a new spin on the potato harvester by making an electric model. When Trent Cousins and...

Drones can help potato growers quickly detect alternaria. This was stated by Ruben van de Vijver of the Institute for Agricultural,...

The Canadian Potato Council runs a program with groups across the country to test potato varieties locally. Potato growers in...

Today’s high fertilizer prices are hardly a secret. The underlying reasons for the cost of these critical products, however, are...

Whether it’s to perfect shape and size, improve storability or protect against disease, potato breeders have their hands full meeting...

Diseases such as black dot and silver scurf often are not visible at harvest or early storage; they typically show...

Today we have the participation of Camilo Soro Simon, director of development and commercial strategy of AGROSTOCK, who introduces us to the...

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...

Idaho University Moscow campus will soon be hosting a new USD5.5m Seed Potato Germplasm Laboratory. This new lab is, in...

University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) scientist Johan Johan Desaeger believes an integrated strategy is the...

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

In their bid to create a cultivation plan for early spuds that will meet the demand, Swisspatat’s production and trade...

It would seem that the iron wheels in tractors are a relic of the past ... Nothing could be further...

The University of Maine has received $510,104 in federal funding to conduct research on potato breeding in Maine to make...

It was the closure of an existing John Deere dealership nearly 10 years ago that set Kenny Quaile on his...

The world's first autonomous potato harvester, called the Harvey.One, is bright red, has a caterpillar undercarriage and drives completely independently...

Having the vantage point of 40 plus years to look out over the potato industry, one could expect many changes. Some...

Currently, virologists count from 27 to 33 types of viral diseases of the potato. Under natural conditions, viruses can spread...

During the event, one farmer asked: “Can a soil test help determine the need for a fungicide application, and does...

When it comes to reporting about potato virus Y (PVY), it’s a good news, bad news kind of story.

The CIP Genebank initiated in vitro cultures more than 40 years ago and has extensive expertise in developing and assaying tissue culture technologies...

The results on the main BASF trial field with Allstar confirm the positive results of previous seasons. But the fungicide's benefits...

Potato is an essential crop for food, culture and the economies of Andean countries and the world. Although there is...

economists expect high input prices to persist through spring.

In the absence of harmony between the biology of the variety and the environment, the physiological functions of the body...

Single Phytophthora-resistant potato varieties in particular did not have an easy time this year. The fungal pressure was so high and...

In production conditions, the variety is gradually deteriorating. To maintain all its valuable biological properties at a high level at...

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) confirmed recently that the US border is now closed to Prince Edward Island (PEI)...

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

Scientists have said that there is a need for effective ways to cope with a deadly disease dubbed “Potato Bacterial Wilt (PBW)...

Seed production is directly related to breeding. As a result of breeding work, new varieties are created. It realizes the...

maintaining optimal temperature and humidity conditions in the storage room seems to be the most reasonable solution.

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

The potato belongs to the family Solanaceae-Solanaceae L., genus Solanum L., belongs to the section Tuberarium (Dun.) Buk., Forming tubers.The...

The US Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s chip potato industry absorbs annually almost 83,000 tons of primarily white spuds, locally produced. To...

The economy is raising more than just prices as farmers question how to manage fertilizer investments in 2022. For Helena...

The new Red Fox potato has a very P.E.I. name —and is also a first in the history of the...

We continue to publish the material of the seminar on methods for assessing the quality of seed potatoes (sampling, tuber...

There was a seminar in Potato Lorkh Institute from 16 to 18 November about law regulation and methods of assessing...

Soiltech Wireless has a soil moisture sensor which is cheaper than competitors and can do more than just monitor water....

In an op-ed written by NCGA CEO Jon Doggett, he says fertilizer executives are bringing in climbing profits at the...

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

Features of RED SKY RED SKY is a variety of the producer Dutch AGROPLANT B. V, distributed in Spain by VAN RIJN SEEDS...

Tasteful Selections® and RPE, its exclusive sales and marketing partner, have formed a new entity: Tasteful Partners. As part of the...

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...