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Gregory Porter, professor of agronomy in the University of Maine School of Food and Agriculture, will receive an Honorary Life Membership from the Potato Association of America (PAA) at the...

Robertson, the small New South Wales village that is home to film stars such as Miriam Margolyes and the movie Babe, has had its biggest win yet. The town’s Big Potato...

Despite all the changes the nation has experienced during this pandemic, the U.S. potato industry remains as committed as ever to fighting for federal policies that protect our businesses, our...

Northwest Region Potato Stocks on June 1, 2022, Totaled 1.75m MT. Potato stocks in Idaho on June 1, 2022, totaled 1.06m metric tons (MT). The disappearance of the Idaho crop to...

OVER the last decade, the Innovative Farmers group has launched more than 120 field labs and awarded more than £450,000 in grants to groups of growers and farmers, supporting them...

Following the rise in prices that has been at the centre of disputes and protests all over Cyprus in recent weeks, potato farmers said that they will also take action...

In the northern Red River Valley, fresh potato planting has begun. Allen Tucker and his family have planted more than 70% of their fresh red and yellow potatoes near Saint...

As reports for The Globe and Mail, after potato wart was detected in two Prince Edward Island fields last fall, Canada quickly shut down most shipments of the province’s potatoes to the...

Demand for potatoes is high, while supply remains low. That could be good news for Florida producers hoping to take advantage this spring, said John Toaspern, chief marketing officer for Potatoes...

Harvest hits record low, with rations in place CUBA's potato harvest will hit record lows this year, according to a report in the Havana Times. The country's Ministry of Agriculture has...

Together, potato producers can gather, analyze and react to market data. Only by this process can supply be matched to demand to achieve fair prices.

Given the estimated Cuban potato liftings for this year totaling 116,396 tons, the Ministry of Agriculture recognized recently that the national spud harvest will not cover the internal demand in...

The United States Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA APHIS) has completed their pest risk analysis and concluded, like Canada, that the trade of PEI table stock potatoes can...

Danny Murphy once paid $10 for a bag of soybean seed, 18 to 30 cents per gallon for diesel, $200 per ton of urea, $20 per day for hired labor,...

Since we have already discussed the projections of increased producer costs, the question that remains is, Will these cost increases necessarily imply lower profits?

Intralox announced the expansion of its U.S. operations with its move to a new built-to-suit 310,000-sq-ft (28,800-sq-m) facility at Tradepoint Atlantic, the 3,300-acre (13.4 sq km) global logistics center in...

Farmers can’t fix the situation with fertilizer availability and high input cost, but they can get a better grasp on their crop fertility requirements, even now.

The Honourable Marie-Claude Bibeau, federal Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada today issued the following statement: “Prince Edward Island (PEI) farmers put everything that they have into their crops and many families’...

The smaller inventories of fresh potatoes are finding higher prices this year, according to USDA data.

Maine potato growers have dealt with storage and shipping difficulties having pulled a record harvest from the ground, but the bumper crop also means more spuds are going to markets...

A massive Kiwi potato that is in the running to claim a world record has gone viral after the man who found it gave a hilarious interview to British TV....

Algeria is facing a multifaceted crisis, one of the most serious since the North African country gained independence in 1962. Boiling social and economic unrest has combined with continuing political...

Until the 19th century, most potato varieties being grown in North America had been imported from Europe with little attention being paid to specific varieties.

The Government of Canada is committed to restoring market access for PEI fresh potatoes to the United States and supporting PEI farmers impacted by trade disruptions. To that end, the Honourable Marie-Claude Bibeau, Minister...

 Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey delivered his final State of the State to a joint session of the Arizona Legislature. While recapping successes of the administration over the past seven years, Ducey set...

A P.E.I. company has brokered a deal to send as many as 700 tractor trailer loads of surplus P.E.I processing potatoes to a french fry plant in Alberta.

The works, which will contribute to the INIA Potato Genetic Improvement Program, will be carried out by the INIA Remehue researcher

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

The global potato market is tight on supply, and farm-level spud prices for Idaho farmers are up substantially. But so are farm input costs and, with prices for other Idaho crops also up significantly,...

Canada suspended P.E.I. potato exports to the U.S. last fall after fungus was detected in 2 fields Canadian and U.S. officials are scheduled to meet this week to see if...

I had one field that had a pH of 8.5 and was high in calcium and magnesium, and even after one year of using SulphGro, our pH dropped to 7.4...

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

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

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

The LaJoie family has always been farmers—at least for as many generations as anyone cares to mention. But they haven’t always grown potatoes in northern Maine; that’s only been going on...

The recent discovery of potato wart disease on Prince Edward Island in Canada, and the subsequent embargo on export of potatoes from the province to the rest of Canada and...

Supply-chain woes and economic inflation are on the minds of many Americans these days, and the effect of those problems hasn’t escaped the potato industry.

Prince Edward Island (P.E.I.) potato growers and politicians are lobbying for the export of fresh potatoes to Puerto Rico to resume, despite the current export ban to the United States...

With Alberta’s irrigation infrastructure undergoing an almost billion-dollar upgrade and Saskatchewan expanding its own system, water is aplenty in the West.

Some potato farms in Aroostook County, Maine have histories dating back to the early 1800s. Daniel Corey’s operation is not one of them, however. Corey started his namesake operation — Daniel...

The Prince Edward Island Potato Board, on behalf of its more than 175 members, urges all Canadians in a press release to work together to protect potato farmers in the...

Along with the paradigm shift in food worldwide, the consumer is also more open to trying different foods, for example, colored potatoes.

Part of the National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS), the U.S. Potato Genebank has for more than six decades collected and maintained a massive collection of potato genetics.

By Michaela Paukner posted on October 28, 2021 Supply chain shortages have some dealers digging out decades-old precision equipment to help their customers get crops off the fields. An industry-wide shortage of...

The Canadian Potato Council runs a program with groups across the country to test potato varieties locally. Potato growers in Canada are always interested in and wanting to try out...

Today’s high fertilizer prices are hardly a secret. The underlying reasons for the cost of these critical products, however, are multiple, and ultimately determined by a complex interplay of domestic...

This article appears in the December 2021 issue of Potato Grower SouthWind Farms has been around for 21 years, but brothers Robert and Jerry Tominaga and their partner Rod Lake have all been involved in...

A recent announcement from the National Potato Council (NPC) shows that this organization alongside 13 other US potato associations sent a letter to USDA Secretary, Tom Vilsack, asking for the...

This article appears in Potato Grower’s 2021 Idaho Annual issue. Conn Crapo is Potato Grower’s 2021 Idaho Seed Grower of the Year Conn Crapo of Skyline Farms Seed Grower of the Year. ...

The Station Food Company purchases produce from local farms that otherwise would be wasted What do you do with more than 2,700 kilograms of local potatoes that can't be sold...