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Farmers could be offered exit payments of up to £100,000 to help them leave the industry as part of a...

The Romanian Farmers Club and the Romanian National Potato Federation propose to the authorities the implementation of a National Strategic...

There does not seem to be an end to the rise in fertilizer prices

A good ridge provides a lot of space for tubers produced in the tuberization process, which is why the most...

At the end of April, the early early potatoes began to be harvested in Andalusia, mainly in the province of...

Nicolás Serna is 74 years old and has been growing potatoes all his life.

Belgium is already the world’s largest exporter of pre-fried potato products.

Potato growing in Estonia has seen a three-fold decline in the past decade

During April 2021 we experienced cold dry conditions which haven’t been seen in some years. Moving into May much of...

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Potato exports are currently struggling. That's according to Leon Kranenburg of the Dutch potato trading and sorting company of the...

Despite the cold and dry month of April, potato grower Benny De Coster expects Monday 10 May to harvest the...

Instead of his traditional Pieper competition, Harry Schreuder of arable farm Harrys Farm in Swifterbant, Flevoland, is organizing a Pieper...

The start of the potato growing season is going according to plan in large parts of the country, unlike last...

Our Fight Against Blight programme started in 2004 and since then ‘blight scouts’ have sent in over 10,000 samples of...

Farmer Bertrand Roussel had no choice. With the crisis, his unsold potatoes would have ended up in the trash

Potato breeders in Europe are working hard to innovate and create new potato varieties.

planting courses on the Ivetta's (Europlant) plot for the table potato market

At the Branston site in Lincolnshire, work has started on a new £6 mln facility, which will be used to...

At the request of BO Akkerbouw, Minister Schouten of LNV has declared the Research and Innovation Program and the associated...

Farm inputs are becoming more and more expensive for farmers. This also means that the costs of agricultural production are...

Teagasc and the Secretary of Agriculture, Food and Maritime Affairs, Charlie McConalogue, have both stated that Brexit is negatively affecting...

Coop intends to combine the packaging and storage of potatoes in one large warehouse near Gardermoen

After ten years, arable farmer Jan-Albert Brands from Andel (GR) has exchanged his 4-row Grimme row cultivator. Due to good experiences,...

The Belgian potato industry suffered significant losses in 2020.

The Board of Appeal for the Trade and Industry (CBB) has called the NAK back and has canceled a suspension...

With the exception of the southwest, the start of the potato growing season is late. But the soil structure is fine,...

Selenella – Consorzio Patata Italiana di Qualità also confirms the positive trend in 2020 with an increase in sales at value...

There is still little insight into agreement between the EU and the UK on mutual trade in seed potatoes. If...

Grimme’s machinery, the CS 150 Combi-Star was manufactured in Germany but received by the team at Market Weighton for pre-delivery...

The export of Dutch ware potatoes is still experiencing the consequences of the corona pandemic. In total, the Netherlands exported 520,992...

the potatoes season of 2021 will be better overall when compared to the 2020 season

Last week, the General Directorate of the Food Chain held a meeting with the representatives of the Castilla y León Interprofessional...

we are facing serious challenges in the use of our land and the distribution of space

However, that ex-farm fell the most sharply.

The bisestile potato is an Italian niche crop grown in Apulia and much appreciated in the French and Belgian markets

As a global company, McCain Foods operates in 160 countries around the world, with 51 facilities in local markets to...

While real-time video monitoring is used in the Netherlands for the export of seed potatoes, Russia has designated disease-free zones...

Tackling the virus in seed potato cultivation requires a system approach

this very welcome trend to gain even greater momentum, once new season crops for 2021 are available.

There is currently more interest in the potato futures market in potatoes from the 2021 harvest

The phase-out of EU subsidies after Brexit has been highlighted as the key factor forcing down the business confidence

Dutch processors take no volumes besides contracts European physical potato markets Belgium Fiwap/PCA market message: Potatoes for processing: markets are...

lockdown to both the processing and fresh market

The meat pig stable with 1,680 berths is now making way for a potato storage shed with a capacity of...

This week, a start was made in Lelystad on the development of the potato demo fields for PotatoEurope 2021

NFU Scotland has responded consultation on Scottish seed potato exports to the EU

Half of the farmers work part-time. Are they economically successful - or are they in the red?

It is possible that soon farmers from the areas affected by ASF in the Lublin region will be eager to...