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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…
Peru guards more than 3,000 native potato varieties in the crop's center of origin — a genetic treasury for mountain food security and premium…
Nearly two decades after pale cyst nematode was first detected in Idaho in 2006, PAPAS researchers are laying out the integrated strategy behind the…
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…
A research building more than 20 years in the making is now home to Washington State University’s post-harvest potato team, giving the group state-of-the-art…
Wholesale yellow potato prices in Lima have risen about 30% this month, with retail prices reaching S/5 per kilogram, as traders point to El…
Potatoes USA hosted culinary directors from Parkhurst Dining at a Wisconsin farm-to-plate tour, part of a push to embed potatoes in university and corporate…
At the far southern tip of Chile, potato self-sufficiency is being built one certified tuber at a time. More than 100 tonnes of certified…
Growers from the Tandil Potato Growers' Centre describe how El Niño rains, late frosts and high costs are shaping planting and prices in one…
The FDA has classified a recall of nearly 10,000 bags of J. HIGGS Loaded Bacon & Cheddar Potato Chips as Class II after undeclared…
The Latin American Potato Association will hold its 31st congress, marking 50 years since its founding, in Montevideo, Uruguay, from 19 to 23 April…
Argentine potato grower prices have staged a dramatic recovery, but in Tucumán an INTA agronomist says much of the windfall is going straight to…
Aconcagua Digital, the company behind the AI potato-diagnosis app PapaDX, is offering growers a Telegram chatbot to log field operations once and reuse the…
Potato prices in Argentina rose 167.4% over the twelve months to September 2026, making it the consumer basket's third-fastest-rising item after onions and squash,…
The spread of the potato psyllid (Bactericera cockerelli) is threatening some 125,000 hectares of potato cultivation in Peru, according to the International Potato Center…
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Agriculture (USDA) have opened a joint public inquiry into potential anticompetitive conduct in agricultural…
The United States is heading into the 2026/27 marketing season with its tightest potato supply base in more than a decade and a half.…
Researchers at Chile's Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso are testing native Chiloé potato varieties in vertical farming systems to reduce cold-induced sweetening and boost…
New U.S. import requirements for potatoes grown in Canada’s Prince Edward Island took effect on 5 October 2026, tightening the conditions under which Island…
Chile’s potato market is offering a study in regional divergence. On 15 October, the wholesale price at the Feria Mayorista de La Calera (Femacal)…
The consumer price of potatoes registered a monthly fall of 3.3 per cent in Greater Buenos Aires in September, but remained far above the…
El Salvador’s government will widen assistance to subsistence farmers and rain-dependent rural families ahead of a potentially strong El Niño, extending a programme that…
Mexico’s National Potato Congress opens 14–16 October in Mexico City, marking CONPAPA’s 35th anniversary as growers face production costs near MXN 300,000 per hectare…
Nineteen potato-specific projects will share nearly $2.32 million in the latest round of the US Department of Agriculture’s Specialty Crop Block Grant Program (SCBGP),…
Argentina’s potato sector runs on contractors. In the southeast of Buenos Aires province — the country’s main fresh-potato region, stretching from Balcarce to Tandil…
Argentina’s northern potato belt is learning again how quickly weather converts into price. Intense rainfall in Tucumán has kept soils saturated and machinery out…
Brazilian potato prices are swinging in both directions this spring season in the Southern Hemisphere: consumer prices jumped 24.1% in September as rains hampered…
Retail potato prices in Belém, capital of Brazil’s Pará state, fell 6.25 per cent in September — from R$9.28 to R$8.70 per kilogram —…
Paraná’s potato market is entering the new crop cycle under pressure from both ends: prices have climbed sharply on the back of tightening supply,…
Urschel Laboratories has appointed Tim Crammer, formerly of Henny Penny, as President effective October 12, 2026, working alongside CEO Rick Urschel.
Heavy rainfall throughout September has delayed wet-season potato planting around Bom Jesus in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil’s southernmost state, with only about 5%…
A new NAPSO bulletin says the intensifying 2026–27 El Niño — Niño 3.4 at +2.1°C and an 83% probability of historically exceptional strength —…
Michigan growers are expected to harvest 45,500 acres at 440 cwt per acre — up 5 cwt on 2025 but on 2,000 fewer acres…
Wholesale potato prices eased in early October as supply expanded, after September rain had briefly pushed them up; the 2026 winter crop is 19%…
Markon reports Idaho, Washington, Wisconsin and Colorado harvests advancing with good quality, while large russets stay scarce and Idaho acreage is down.
USDA's 9 October spot report puts large Idaho Russet Burbank cartons at $22–24, while small counts trade at $11–15.
US retail diesel is above $6 a gallon, about 68% higher than a year ago, raising harvest, storage and haulage costs for potato growers.
The top price for Tucumán potatoes at Buenos Aires' Mercado Central fell to ARS 24,000 per bag as northern supply increased.
Mexico's CONPAPA congress meets in Mexico City on 14–16 October as growers face production costs of about MXN 300,000 per hectare.
El Salvador has supported more than 100,000 farm families and expanded irrigated area as El Niño threatens rain-fed crops.
Brazilian consumer potato prices rose 24.1% in September, while wholesale prices eased in early October as supply improved.
NAPSO warns that a strengthening El Niño could raise refrigeration costs and storage losses for North American potato stores.
Flikweert Vision brings its 30 t/h AI QualityGrader to North America at the IFPA show in Orlando.
Around 50 buyers from 10 export markets will meet U.S. suppliers in Pasco, Washington, during Potatoes USA's 2026 Reverse Trade Mission.
Row 7 Seed Company’s Poulette — a variety born from a 2013 conversation between chef Michel Bras and Cornell breeder Walter De Jong —…
Potato growers in Argentina’s Jujuy province are reducing planted area as seed potato prices of 60,000–65,000 pesos per bag squeeze margins, even as growers…
Input suppliers and a meteorologist headlined a PGP Agronegocios field day in Balcarce, the heart of Argentina’s fresh potato region, presenting phosphite programs, seed…
A widespread rainfall event delivered between 16 and 70 millimeters across the southeast of Buenos Aires province, with Coronel Vidal recording the maximum of…
The Cundinamarca departmental government, working with national potato federation Fedepapa, has delivered seed potato, minitubers and fertilizer packages worth around 105 million pesos per…
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…
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