Harvesting

After a very wet summer, slow and difficult harvesting conditions in Belgium, Holland and Germany.After one of the most humid summers in the last decades, end of harvest conditions were...

This year, the potato growers from North Rhine-Westphalian (NRW) in Germany, harvested 1.92m tons, a total which is 13.3% higher than in 2020. With a yield of 51.6 tons per...

The latest Union Nationale des Producteurs de Pommes de Terre (UNPT) forecasts for the 2022-2023 potato campaign show that the attractiveness and profitability of the cultivar crop are still in...

According to experts from the market, the Russian capacity for processing potatoes is set to increase by 50% in 2022, combined with the production of tubers on personal subsidiary plots,...

Canadian growers harvested a record potato crop in 2021, as production rose 18.2% year over year to 123.1 million hundredweight, on account of increases in both seeded area and yield, according to a report released by...

Around 740 thousand tonnes of potatoes were harvested by farmers in Tajikistan in the current season as of the end of the last work week, Eastfruit analysts report. This is...

The United Potato Growers of Canada report on the 2021 Harvest as it is in its final stages. Most provinces (with the exception of British Columbia) have enjoyed excellent harvest conditions...

Specialist in vegetable harvesting, Pouchain launches its new four-row Oryx potato harvester, available in 75 and 90 cm versions.

Given that most potato areas will not see harvest reach full capacity until the third week of September, the Canadian growers hope that any potential early frosts hold off and...

For eight years now, Idaho Hydro Tech’s developed air scrubber, known also as the Humigator, cleans and humidifies the air in various potato storages around the world. This air scrubber...

North Western Europe will have had one of its most humid summers in the last decades – in some areas in Belgium and Western Germany, rainfall at mid-July was an...

A popular member of the vegetable garden, the potato is one of the easiest crops to grow. A low maintenance, versatile crop potato plants help to suppress weed growth and cultivate...

A warehouse for raw materials worth USD30m, located in the Industrial and Logistics Park of the Novosibirsk region, has been built and put into operation by PepsiCo. The new storage...

This year, according to a recent North Western European Potato Growers (NEPG) press release, EU-04’s potato harvest will be much more dependent on the production per hectare than the sown...

The requirements being made on the productivity, comfort and safety of mobile machines in the off-highway sector are constantly increasing. Assistance systems and partially automated solutions are making it easier...

An important part of controlled-environment potato stores, is the ability to regulate temperature, which can be achieved using ambient air and/or mechanical cooling (refrigeration). Internal recirculation of air can also...

Many components of the storage environment impact shrinkage, but the most critical is relative humidity (RH). Actively managing the RH within the storage building will enable the maximization of the...

The severity – and timing – of recent autumn downpours has illustrated the impact of a changing climate on farms and underlined the importance of long-term investment in land drainage,...

Most P.E.I. potato farmers have harvested all their spuds, and are not surprised to report the 2020 crop is down.  "We all know we had a hot, dry summer —...

Vedelaar contractor from Nagele harvested the last 2 hectares of Lady Anna from arable farmer Harry Schreuder from Swifterbant. These potatoes were lifted with a Grimme Varitron 470 equipped with Multisep,...