AGROTECHNOLOGY

From potato planting to row closure is a busy time for growers. It’s also a busy time for weeds. Getting...

Soil fertilization does not always guarantee full availability of nutrients. Therefore, it is fully justified to supplement it with foliar feeding....

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

 The presence of the Colorado potato beetle on a potato field is quite a challenge. Especially for the organic grower, who...

Colorado Potato Beetle (CPB) is still the number one insect pest of potatoes around the world. It’s a formidable enemy;...

Researchers from breeding company Solynta and Wageningen University & Research have identified, cloned and characterized the key gene for self-fertilization in diploid potatoes. This discovery makes...

Can brown rot be spread through the roots of the potato plant? That is the central question in a study that...

ADAPT asked for the farmers’ perception of climate change, their experiences concerning its impact on potato production, and their need...

Even heavy-duty engines need to be put on the test bench to verify the required exhaust gas quality at each...

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

The infamous pathogen Phytophthora infestans caused famine in Ireland and other parts of Western Europe in the 19th century and...

Harvesting of early potatoes is now in full swing in the Krasnodar and Stavropol regions, as well as in the...

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

In seed potatoes, haulm killing is started in July. Reglone and Finale are no longer permitted for the chemical haulm killing of...

As the Magic Valley region in southern Idaho prepares for potentially record-setting heat this week, farmers, potato researchers and dairy...

Italian and Cypriot imports continued to dominate the market for table potatoes. Meanwhile, domestic offerings continued to gain in importance.

Under the impulse of the Ecological Focus Area, the use of green manure mixtures is now commonplace. Mixtures have advantages in...

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

Mechanical weed control in potatoes and beets is possible, but you have to be on top of it all the...

The potato is one of the plants with a high potassium demand. This element is taken up in significant amounts, affecting...

Eugenia Banks of the Ontario Potato Board has created a resource on late blight, updated for the 2021 growing season.

China's scientists have developed a generation of "pure and fertile potato lines" with genome editing technologies in a groundbreaking achievement.

Last year, arable farmer Roelof Kunst gained experience with the predatory mite Neoseiulus californicus, or Spical, as a control agent...

The Colorado potato beetle is a major pest in North America that can reduce potato yields by 30-50% if unchecked....

In Sudan, potato cultivation has seen tremendous successes, with productivity in some areas reaching 28 tons an acre. The Alarqam...

What is the best way to kill potato leaves? What are the advice and options? During an AgrioTV broadcast on June 29,...

A variety trial in potato was set up in Lennik as part of the Potato Agricultural Center. The aim is...

Consulting and research organization Delphy has started a study to inject slurry into potato seed potatoes in a row using...

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

Azoles are widely used as fungicides in arable farming.

The German Union of the Potato Sector (UNIKA) and the University of Applied Sciences Kiel are investigating this question in...

growers to recognize the potential food safety risks associated with the rapidly expanding use of biostimulants and biofertilizers in crop...

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

Do not rush to judgment on those herbicides, however, if grasses become a problem after potatoes have emerged.

A rotation is more than not getting sick of a crop, it is also about keeping the soil healthy gezond

Blight is the bane of potato growing and experts warn that, long-term, pressure in the UK is only set to...

When growing potatoes, the pH of the soil is important. It affects susceptibility to diseases.

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

If you see cracks and fissures, you know it’s shatter damage. Photo by Rabecka Hendricks. It’s easy to batter and bruise...

Researchers from the University of Groningen planted salt-tolerant seed potatoes on Friday afternoon at the double dike in Bierum in...

“The damage of Alternaria in potatoes is – certainly in recent years – greater than that of Phytophthora. Most growers have...

varieties are differentiated by their morphological characteristics and their genetic material (DNA), duration of the productive cycle, resistance to diseases,...

Farmer Leonid Kichigin reaps high yields annually, and now he intends to provide the region with virus-free potato seeds. This year,...

Two years ago, a team of potato scientists and researchers from across Canada launched a comprehensive study aimed at reducing...

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

The area of ​​seed potatoes indicated for the inspection is 41,711 hectares. This means that the number of hectares has again...

The world’s leading manufacturer of hygienic stainless-steel components, the Danish companyNGI, are turning its attention on two typical weak spots...

Blight is the bane of potato growing and experts warn that, long-term, pressure in the UK is only set to...

Yes, that’s phosphite, not phosphate. While it’s chemically similar to the widely used and essential phosphate — the ‘P’ in...

rable farmers are increasingly and earlier encountering the Colorado potato beetle in potato plants.