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farmers Kees and Anco van der Bos and Jan Idsardi have almost twenty years of experience with circular agriculture

export of Dutch seed potatoes also still shows a declining trend

Growers have shunned a Scottish government proposal for a 'Scotland-specific' seed potato agreement with the EU

retail trade is rumbling on, but everyone keeps calm

entire cohort of growers has not been recognised by the Covid support schemes put in place for the potato sector

Seed potato growers along the Wadden coast feel their survival is threatened by the plans in the Wadden Agenda. The salinization...

Agriculture student on mission to improve farm safety

Growers are having to make serious decisions on what and how much to plant for the coming season

corona crisis has shown that there is always a bottom in the market thanks to the feed market

"Potato for professionals - only quality guarantees profit in difficult conditions" - this is the slogan under which the online...

The EU has accepted a temporary maximum residue limit of 0.4 ppm for CIPC

Scottish potato growers are facing some tough decisions on what to plant over the coming weeks

ministry acknowledges that the MOT exemption will be 'difficult to implement and enforce'

Slower Scottish seed sales thought to be behind higher stored total than five-year average

This same recommendation is being made by APPACYL

Belgian industry focuses more on the retail sector

Last year he bought his new Grimme row cultivator GF400

Norfolk farm has invested £263,000 in a hi-tech new storage building to keep its potato

The acreage of seed potatoes in the Netherlands is at the ceiling

We have never planted this early

Possible extensions to Irish Sea border "grace periods" will be discussed on Wednesday by the EU-UK body overseeing the Northern...

Arable farmers and other growers are also directly affected by problems with sales opportunities to Great Britain

Using the example of a small village

Ukrainian Association of Potato Producers have developed a state-funded program for the development of industrial potato growing for 2021-2025,

The seed potato sector has been left disappointed by confirmation that there will be no relaxation of the EU ban...

Ukraine's Potato Cultivation Institute has developed a high-yield new potato variety that can produce up to 100 tons per hectare

The average price of arable land rose in the fourth quarter of 2020 to € 74,100 per hectare, a plus...

Since the 1st of January 2021, the RUCIP European Committee has a new internal organisation that aimsto maintain the continuity...

This situation has resulted in the region of Castile-Leon having around 50% more than usual in storage at this time,...

State statistics on potatoes grown in Ukraine do not match the actual figures and are exaggerated by about two-thirds, according...

At the end of 2020, the Ukrainian Association of Potato Producers warned that without potato imports in the current marketing...

In 2020, the lowest amount of potatoes was processed in the past ten years with 3,391 million tonnes. It is...

Ireland’s seed potato sector looks set to get a Brexit shot in the arm.

As the dust settles on the Brexit trade deal, the seed potato sector is coming to terms with its mixed...

The nation's farming leader and experts in European agriculture and trade will be among the guests in a series of...

A large pile of potatoes was dumped in front of the head office of the umbrella organization Central Bureau for...

The number of arable farms with a successor is highest in Flevoland.

The British potato industry is in talks with the European Union about relaxing the seed potato measure

There are significant opportunities to increase the production and supply of Irish grown seed potatoes post-Brexit, to replace UK imports

The outbreak of corona in March 2020 deeply affected many entrepreneurs in the agricultural sector. In this series a look back...

The start of the vaccination programs against the coronavirus also creates some optimism in the potato market. The quotations for...

The announcement that a trade deal between the UK and the EU had been agreed just days before the end...

More drought and heat will require more and more irrigation in the future. In Germany, more than 2 million hectares of...

On November 19, the Xunta announced the lifting of the ban on planting potatoes in nine other municipalities in the...

Seed potatoes growers say they are being treated like pawns in a political game with £13.5m of exports in doubt...

Although we are nearing the end of a uniquely testing year, British farmers will have more challenges to face in 2021 says...

The consequences of the coronavirus outbreak were immediately felt for the Dutch agricultural sectors. But looking back at the first six...

Farmers with fields potato cultivation in the Upper Palatinate no longer allowed to water potatoes and tomatoes with water from...

The first contours for the 2021 potato season are beginning to emerge. The table potato market is still looking good, at...

Corona is forcing the potato trading houses to think about a different set-up of the traditional variety shows this year. A...