Harvesting
Diesel prices are 40–73% higher than a year ago in the US and major EU markets, adding to harvest, haulage and contract pressures for potato growers. Governments are responding with temporary tax cuts and relief schemes, but none…
Ontario's P&K Vander Zaag Farms is 92% through harvest with strong yields, but the Canadian Federation of Agriculture warns surging diesel, steel and aluminum…
Poland's statistics office GUS has cut its national potato harvest estimate to 5.9 million tonnes, 15.4% below 2025, after satellite imagery confirmed lower yields…
The nine Innovator plots evaluated by Boerenbusiness Gewastour in 2026 averaged 46 tonnes per hectare — almost eight tonnes below the five-year mean and…
Black spot bruise is created in seconds at harvest: chain speeds, drop heights and tuber pulp temperature matter more than any single machine setting.
Complete haulm destruction one to three weeks before harvest firms skins and protects tubers from blight; the method — flail, chemical or both —…
Growers in the Tambov region have lifted potatoes from 83% of planted area, with the crop exceeding 100,000 tonnes, regional media report.
PepsiCo and Grimme have built digital twins of Grimme EVO and SE harvesters for VR operator training; pilots showed 87% more bruise-free potatoes.
The 2026 European potato harvest is falling behind last year’s pace: the Netherlands is about 70% done while Belgium has lifted barely a quarter…
Russian retail potato prices fell only 0.3% in the week of 6–12 October after a 2.3% drop a week earlier, as regions finish the…
US retail diesel is above $6 a gallon, about 68% higher than a year ago, raising harvest, storage and haulage costs for potato growers.
Austria expects 468,000 t and Switzerland 333,000 t of potatoes, record lows that will reshape import flows from Germany and the Netherlands.
The ECIU estimates drought could cost Great Britain about 440,000 t of potatoes, worth £80–169 million, as growers call for more water storage.
Rain slows potato lifting in the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Germany, with Belgium furthest behind.
Belarusian agricultural producers have dug 600,000 t of potatoes at an average 329 c/ha, 19 c/ha above last year, according to ministry data for…
Spain’s potato production will drop by 8–10% this campaign, with losses approaching 15% in the northern regions, according to the Spanish federation of fruit…
Canadian potato production is estimated at 130.6 million hundredweight — about 5.92 million tonnes — up 3.7% on last year and a record, with…
According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Trade of the Komi Republic, LLC “Prigorodny” has placed more than 1,550 tonnes of marketable potatoes into…
Specialists from the Southern Interregional Directorate of Rosselkhoznadzor have inspected 8,500 tonnes of fresh food potatoes in the Otradnensky district of Krasnodar Krai. At…
Russia’s industrial potato sector achieved a historic yield record of 310.8 centners per hectare in 2025, up 15% from 270.2 c/ha in 2024, with…
Potato yields across France vary dramatically by region, with the Paris basin and northern areas consistently outperforming other parts of the country, according to…
Yakutia’s harvest campaign is in its final stage, with farms having collected 63,429 tonnes of potatoes as of October 5 — 83% of the…
Wageningen trials, PotatoWorld guidance and a Florida spacing study show that plant density, stem number and variety decide how many tubers end up in…
Mainland Tanzania produced 752,520 tonnes of Irish potatoes in the 2023/24 agricultural year at 10 t/ha, the national statistics bureau says. Small farms grow…
The Philippines harvested 102,790.84 tonnes of potatoes in 2024, up 2.73%, the Philippine Statistics Authority reports. Benguet alone produced 76,487 tonnes at 21.10 t/ha.
Iraq's statistics body puts the 2025 potato crop at 186,147 tonnes on 31,579 dunums, down from 674,800 tonnes on 96,500 dunums in 2020. The…
Iraq's potato harvest moved sharply towards the spring season in 2025. Spring output rose to 122,921 tonnes, while the autumn crop fell to 63,226…
Labels, trials and skin biology all point one way: digging three days after diquat turns the lot into processing stock at best — and…
Cold soil and rain frame the end of Russia's 2026 harvest: tubers dug at +4–8 °C crack, fail to heal in store and get…
Bosnia and Herzegovina harvested about 407,000 tonnes of potatoes in 2024, above the long-term average of 385,000 tonnes, but farm prices fell 27%, a…
The regional harvest campaign is entering its final stretch, with cabbage, carrot and beet gathering also under way.
Kabansky district leads the republic's harvest with 16,400 tonnes, followed by Pribaikalsky and Selenginsky districts, as the campaign nears completion.
Russian growers compare brochure speeds with field reality for four-row self-propelled harvesters, and describe a market where new machines are sold out.
Ecuador harvested 221,187 tonnes of potatoes in 2024, down from 262,038 tonnes, as the harvested area fell to 13,689 hectares, national statistics office INEC…
The harvest is complete in one of the republic's key potato districts as winter preparation accelerates across Tuva.
Some 250 hectares are planted to potatoes at a specialist farm, with around 45 workers gathering the crop by hand.
Growers in the Angara area had harvested main crops from 230,000 hectares by 2 October, with yields above last year.
The republic's growers have also collected 7,000 tonnes of open-field vegetables alongside a 754,600-tonne grain crop.
The republic gathered 61,763 tonnes at an average yield of 11.1 tonnes per hectare, closing the harvesting campaign.
Harvesting is in full swing at Melensky Kartofel, the largest farm enterprise of the Starodub district, as Bryansk growers race the weather.
Better weather in April and May lifted South Korea's 2026 spring potato crop to 361,167 tonnes, after a weak 2025 when both the spring…
About 80% of the winter potato crop in Vargem Grande do Sul is harvested. Rain slowed lifting and prices recovered, and some loads went…
Statistics Poland estimates the 2026 potato harvest at about 5.9 million tonnes, 15.4% below 2025, with an average yield of 313 dt/ha.
Farm-gate potato prices in Pavlodar fell to 80-110 tenge/kg and some farmers sell below cost, while the growers' union expects about 3.3 Mt against…
Farms in Zabaykalsky Krai had harvested 5,900 t of potatoes from 340 ha by 22 September, 13% more than a year ago; Chita district…
Arkhangelsk region has harvested about 13,700 tonnes of potatoes, 57.2% of the plan, at 171 c/ha; the region spends 17.5 million roubles on potato…
Kirov Region farms have cleared 45% of potato area — 13,500+ tonnes from 477 ha at 283 c/ha, far above the 161.1 c/ha three-year…
The Lonja de León began quoting new-crop potatoes on 23 September at €310–360 per tonne. The province planted 1,210 ha, down 10.6%, as Europe…
Viaverda's fifth trial dig on 33 Belgian fields gave 38.2 t/ha of Fontane, far below the five-year average of 48 t/ha and the 2022…
A Syngenta agronomist tells farmer.pl that some Polish lots reach 17–18% starch while others from the same fields have 13–14%, and some fail the…
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