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Moldovan wholesale potato prices rose to 6-6.5 lei/kg as a smaller harvest, fewer seed imports and limited cheap imports from neighbors point toward further increases, analysts say.
French potato growers are asking supermarkets to accept smaller spuds for fries after summer drought and a relaxed 45mm minimum size standard following a…
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…
Facing a record-low average yield of 37.9 t/ha, France's potato committee CNIPT has exceptionally lowered the minimum size for fresh-fry potatoes from 50 to…
Young potatoes at Kyiv’s Stolichny market tripled in price within six days, climbing from UAH 20 to UAH 60 per kilogram — a thin-market…
Europe's potato sector warns that a shrinking crop-protection toolbox, climate change and rising costs are threatening competitiveness, with 86 active substances withdrawn and only…
SIAL Paris 2026 opens October 17 with about 8,000 exhibitors, and Swiss brand Nükt's oil-free, water-fried potato chips have already won a SIAL Innovation…
Belarus has set a maximum retail price of 1.11 roubles per kilogram for potatoes sold under the state order during the 2026/27 winter interseason…
Ukraine faces a winter shortage of quality potatoes, and prices for well-presented ware potatoes could climb to UAH 15–20/kg by February, according to a…
Royal HZPC Group has been granted a patent for a potato with significantly increased levels of flavonoids — natural antioxidants — while keeping the…
Destatis: German potato consumer prices rose 11.3% in September 2026; producer prices for table potatoes were up 61.5% in August.
OptiYield, a British precision nutrition system from Emerald Research, has delivered potato yield increases of 10-18% and cut carbon emissions by 31% in independent…
The nine Innovator plots evaluated by Boerenbusiness Gewastour in 2026 averaged 46 tonnes per hectare — almost eight tonnes below the five-year mean and…
Potato growers on Crete’s Lasithi Plateau lost an estimated 80 per cent or more of their crop after storms dumped nearly 470 millimetres of…
Royal HZPC Group has been granted a patent for a new generation of potatoes with increased levels of flavonoids — natural antioxidants associated with…
Bulgaria’s Ministry of Agriculture and Food will increase inspections of imported seed potatoes intended for commercial cultivation and seed multiplication, Agriculture Minister Plamen Abrovski…
Potato cultivation in Hungary has declined to 5,065 hectares in 2026, while reduced acreage and weather-related crop losses are affecting supplies across Europe, FreshPlaza…
About 250 professionals met at the first International Potato Symposium in Madrid on 5 October as Northwest Europe faces a drought-hit 2026 potato crop.
France’s fry compromise is holding — unevenly. With large tubers in short supply after a drought-affected season, the industry lowered the minimum size requirement…
Manter’s upgraded AutoPack HS+ bagging machine carries four 300-bag magazines, doubling capacity to 1,200 bags and allowing roughly an hour of autonomous operation at…
Late blight has always been the defining disease of European potato production, but the terms of engagement are shifting. According to a technical analysis…
Belarus’s Gomel region has sent more than 3.1 thousand tonnes of potatoes into storage for the state stabilization fund, 42% of the regional plan…
Germany's 2026 potato harvest is estimated at approximately 10.43 million tonnes, according to preliminary official figures published by the German Federal Ministry of Agriculture…
Two weeks of daily shelf-price tracking at Continente, Biedronka, Tesco and Sainsbury’s show fresh potato retail prices flat — while farm-gate prices surge on…
Conxemar 2026, the 27th International Frozen Products Exhibition, ran 6–8 October at IFEVI Vigo with frozen potato specialists including Eurofrits among the exhibitors.
Visitor registration for Interpom 2026 is open: 332 exhibitors from 15 countries and 24,000 expected visitors meet at Kortrijk Xpo on 29 November –…
The moments when potatoes tumble into the store after harvest are among the most consequential of the whole season — and the least observed.…
Germany’s potato market is splitting in two. According to the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the price received by producers for table potatoes rose 61.5%…
British researchers have started work on a four-year, £3.72 million project to prepare the country’s farmers for two bacterial crop diseases that are already…
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…
Rosstat data show retail potato prices fell 13.1% in September and kept falling into October, though the pace of decline is slowing.
About 98% of Norway's commercial potato area is sprayed against late blight, up to 16 times a season, as resistance and the EU_41 strain…
CNIPT's week 41 bulletin shows Northwest European processing quotes at €200–275/t and French retail potato prices slightly lower year on year.
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.
Ukrainian potato prices are steady at about UAH 12 per kilo as harvest supplies reach markets, while young potatoes cost far more.
Russian analysts see autumn price risks for potatoes and other borscht vegetables as fuel, harvesting and logistics costs rise.
The Environment Agency lets English farmers refill reservoirs outside licence periods from 1 to 31 October as drought persists.
Lidl France's Terre de Progrès potatoes from regenerative farms are now in 1,630 stores at €2.99 per 2 kg bag.
Rain slows potato lifting in the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Germany, with Belgium furthest behind.
Agroprom Ural runs on 27–29 October at Yekaterinburg-Expo, with a session on soil, rotation, vegetables and potatoes and the Potato Union among the speakers.…
NEPG puts the EU-4 crop at about 20.7 million tonnes, down 25.4% on 2025, after a smaller planted area and July–August heat and drought…
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…
Northwest Europe’s free potato market is stuck: Fontane holds at €20 per 100 kg in Belgium and France, Germany’s REKA quotes €23, and with…
Dutch starch cooperative Avebe has raised its interim payment for starch potatoes by €10 per tonne, lifting the mid-campaign price for 19% starch deliveries…
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…
Belgium’s potato area has shrunk 17.4% this year to 88,904 hectares, provisional Statbel figures show — a correction of roughly 18,700 hectares after the…
Dutch potato cooperative Nedato has reported a 2025 pool result of €3.58 per 100 kg to its members — a figure reflecting fry-variety pools…
Bulgaria’s food safety agency has launched unplanned inspections of potato origin, labeling and traceability across five major retail chains and their warehouses, running 6–12…
The five main European fry-exporting countries shipped 564,500 tonnes of frozen fries in June, up 6.1% year on year and the second-highest monthly figure…
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