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Free-to-attend ‘AgTech’ events explore topics shaping startup innovation scene: robotics, digitalization, circular economy and soil healthLaunch event: 18 January 2022,...

When Rupa Singh purchased a bag of imported spicy potato chips from a local Indian grocery store, she had no...

Planting a hectare of potatoes means investing around 800 euros more than in the campaign a year ago The potato...

Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute - compared to other years, the intensity of winter is less this time.

Abstract Potato wart disease is considered one of the most important quarantine pests for cultivated potato and is caused by...

The Dammer agricultural machinery manufacturer Grimme and the Osnabrück biotechnology company SeedForward are setting up a joint venture to break...

SILBO is a Polish producer of flexible packaging for food industry. SILBO has been on the market forover 20 years,...

What happens when Doritos takes one of its most iconic flavors and unleashes the heat? Introducing new Doritos Flamin' Hot...

The new Irish potato variety ‘Irish Gold’ is rapidly gaining the attention of UK growers. The variety supplied exclusively to...

supermarket chain only imports potatoes from October or November to April or May, "and once we have exhausted the volume of Spanish...

The national survey conducted this fall involved soil testing across areas of Canada that grow seed potatoes (except Newfoundland) to...

Heerenveen, January 2022 – APH Group, a distributor of farm equipment, has acquired Agri2.0 CIS B.V. (hereinafter: Agri 2.0) including...

About 80 percent of their potato harvest goes to Peak with the remainder to Simplot Canada and McCain Foods.

The Great Depression was becoming history, and the United States was poised to enter World War II when Idaho’s potato...

By substituting a percentage of the meat with potato, Botaniline – a food technology and innovation company that has created...

Uncertainty in the Dutch agricultural sector has a major impact on the future plans of Dutch farmers. A trend study by...

The global potato market is tight on supply, and farm-level spud prices for Idaho farmers are up substantially. But so are farm...

Flexible packaging sustainability is a hot agenda topic, and with rapidly advancing technology the options are starting to grow. That...

The potato chip company Calbee Inc. and a horticultural soil company jointly started selling seed potatoes and growing kits in...

Canada suspended P.E.I. potato exports to the U.S. last fall after fungus was detected in 2 fields Canadian and U.S....

Organised by Scotland’s Rural College, the 23nd annual conference of the SAC Association of Potato Producers (SACAPP) will take place...

Utz Brands, Inc, a leading U.S. manufacturer of branded salty snacks, reported IRI MULO-C retail sales for the 4-week and...

Many of my colleagues use tare soil for raising the level, the vegetable garden, or reinforcing the embankment.

India has revoked a patent for a potato variety grown exclusively for PepsiCo Inc's popular Lay's potato chips, according to...

I had one field that had a pH of 8.5 and was high in calcium and magnesium, and even after...

The World Potato Congress Inc. is very excited to announce its first webinar of 2022. In preparation for the World...

Potatoes USA has issued a comprehensive research report depicting the potato category’s penetration on menus across different segments, dayparts, cuisines,...

The sprout inhibitor CIPC has been banned in Europe since last year. It was a practical and inexpensive solution to...

...bottles with weed seeds were then buried in a secret location State University in the fall of 1879.

The shortage of water in the reservoirs spaniards during the last months of 2021 marked the first weeks of the...

"An older farmer like me can continue to work mechanically, but younger generations do not have that experience.”

According to a press release issued by USDA, the Government of the United Kingdom has asked USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection...

After a very wet summer, slow and difficult harvesting conditions in Belgium, Holland and Germany.After one of the most humid...

A fourth-generation potato farming and marketing family in North Dakota is leaping into a new era of electronic potato grading....

Take some time to consider how these trends will affect your day-to-day business in the years ahead:

Irving Farms of Caribou and Corey Rioux & Sons of Fort Kent will receive more than USD180,000 to help install...

The area of seed potato crops for certification in Ireland increased to 299 hectares in 2021, helping to fill a...

Potatoes are one of the two main staple crops in Flagler County and farmers are busy preparing the ground and...

At the European level, the effects of various lockdown measures over the last few weeks are becoming more apparent, with...

East Anglia's farmers and food producers must overcome a raft of challenges in 2022 says Gary Ford, regional director of the National...

DETROIT (Reuters) - John Deere & Co said on Tuesday it will start commercial delivery this year of technology that...

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

After the closure of the world-renowned Sutton Bridge Crop Storage Research facility last week, following the loss of the potato...

Precision engineering is woven into Jacob van den Borne's business operations. New techniques and applications will also be launched in 2022....

The latest United Potato Growers of Canada (UPGC) report shows that the total cultivar storage holdings, the fresh holdings (those...

FERA is launching Enigma, an R&D model for the agri-food sector and is inviting interested parties to register for the...

APH Group will supply storage-, grading and washing installations for three new French fries factories.

An official from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) says the investigation into the discovery of potato wart in two...

“As a conservation farmer, the practices we use on our farm are allowing us to ‘kidnap carbon’ from the atmosphere...

A FOOD manufacturer which advocates the use of potatoes in its plant-based products has secured a EUR 25 million investment...