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Fertilizers not only become dramatically more expensive, but also often difficult to buy.

By putting water at the heart of business operations and increasing water self-sufficiency, arable farms become less dependent on the weather. Restrictions on water use are also decreasing. This makes arable farmers...

Although the potato area has decreased considerably this year, the yield could turn out to be higher. “The yield per hectare will be decisive,” said North-Western European Potato Growers (NEPG). The...

Holland Innovative Potato (HIP) makes research into more sustainable and future-proof potato cultivation accessible through a series of knowledge clips or knowledge videos. In the videos, researchers explain how higher...

The 'Part-time job at the farmer' campaign aims to make young people enthusiastic about a part-time job at an agricultural company, such as an arable farm. The campaign is an initiative...

ADAPT asked for the farmers’ perception of climate change, their experiences concerning its impact on potato production, and their need for adapted potato varieties.

Due to the wet spring, the last potatoes were not planted until the end of May.

We've been irrigation the potatoes intensively for several weeks now, with increasingly tight shifts

Research shows that 52% of the respondents have never heard of the Opperdoezer Ronde, even though this is one of the most authentic potatoes in the Netherlands

The fertilizers prices have not been so high for many years. But while grain prices are falling again, the arable farmers have to spend more and more money on fertilizer. Read why...

Yesterday, our friends and colleagues from the major German educational center DEULA-Nienburg subscribed to our news in the mobile application available at this link POTATO NEWS APP Having supported our...

Following the hiatus due to the pandemic, the DLG (German Agricultural Society) is relaunching three international trade shows for potato production and processing over the next few months. Potato Days...

What is the best way to kill potato leaves? What are the advice and options? During an AgrioTV broadcast on June 29, experts will discuss the theme live on the basis of...

Take a deep dive into the latest industry insights in our very own E-zine! Keeping you up to date with the most relevant consumer trends, ranging from the current economic...

Azoles are widely used as fungicides in arable farming.

Potatoes are ready to become super food thanks to the increase in the magnesium value

In order to guarantee high-quality standards of the Potato of Bologna PDO, all of us producers are carefully monitoring the irrigation

Home consumption of fresh potatoes increased by eight percent last year.

BO Akkerbouw, together with other parties, took up the challenge in corona year 2020 to seek solutions for the challenges faced by the arable farming sector.

As of 14 June 2021, we will deliver the first AH NEW HARVEST potatoes from the Netherlands. The new harvest of potatoes was planted in February, grown under cover (plastic),...

Consumers' expectations of the "perfect potato" may need to change as the food industry drives towards more climate-friendly agriculture. That was the view from a major East Anglian grower after frozen chips...

The relatively wet spring has a different impact on the companies of the NPPL participants. This is apparent from a telephone tour of seven arable and dairy farms. For NPPL participant...

Tholen - Today Polder Potato started again with the first new potatoes from the island of Tholen

Potato cultivation has vigor and health in Castilla y León, and points out ways in terms of quality, with a uniform tuberization.

PORBATATA (the Potato Association of Portugal), which represents the interests of the potato sector in Portugal, has launched a campaign to promote Portuguese potatoes, reaching the market for the first...

LWM RUS, the leading producer of frozen potato products in Russia, has signed an investment agreement with the governor of the Lipetsk region Igor Artamonov, to more than double the...

A potato processing plant will be opened in the Tula region. On May 31, a symbolic stone laying was held in the Uzlovaya SEZ in honor of the start of...

In 20 years the potatoes ​area has fallen from 3,600 hectares to only 770

In an interview with Paweł Kaczmarek, a board member of Top Farms Wielkopolska, we talked about important aspects of the cultivation of french potato and chips and how important soil...

Potato breeder HZPC believes that old EU legislation should make way for new techniques for plant breeding. The potato trading house therefore embraces the conclusions of the European Commission study on...

The acreage also appears to be declining in the rest of northwestern Europe, with estimates suggesting a decrease of three to even five percent.

VITORIA - HAZI, responsible for Basque quality certifications, has confirmed that during the 2020 campaign in Álava 375 hectares were dedicated to potato production under the guarantee brands Eusko Label and...

Tholen - The growth of the new potatoes does not want to get along yet.

The Syracuse New Potato campaign is giving good results to Sicilian producers.

Farmers could be offered exit payments of up to £100,000 to help them leave the industry as part of a government drive to attract "new talent" onto the fields.

The Romanian Farmers Club and the Romanian National Potato Federation propose to the authorities the implementation of a National Strategic Potato Plan, to save an economic sector in great difficulty...

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 popular ridge spacing in Poland is 75 cm

At the end of April, the early early potatoes began to be harvested in Andalusia, mainly in the province of Seville, but also on plots in Córdoba, Cádiz and Huelva....

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 the country has received, or is about to receive, some...

Our website supports farmers, informing them about the events taking place in the world, and promoting the introduction of new advanced technologies.But there are cases when the mass media can...

why not be satisfied if you earn money every year with potatoes?

Potato exports are currently struggling. That's according to Leon Kranenburg of the Dutch potato trading and sorting company of the same name. "We were busy last year. But it's much...

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

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

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

Our Fight Against Blight programme started in 2004 and since then ‘blight scouts’ have sent in over 10,000 samples of potentially blight infested potato plants for genotyping. Each year the...