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The Great Depression was becoming history, and the United States was poised to enter World War II when Idaho’s potato...

Uncertainty in the Dutch agricultural sector has a major impact on the future plans of Dutch farmers. A trend study by...

The global potato market is tight on supply, and farm-level spud prices for Idaho farmers are up substantially. But so are farm...

Canada suspended P.E.I. potato exports to the U.S. last fall after fungus was detected in 2 fields Canadian and U.S....

Many of my colleagues use tare soil for raising the level, the vegetable garden, or reinforcing the embankment.

I had one field that had a pH of 8.5 and was high in calcium and magnesium, and even after...

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

The shortage of water in the reservoirs spaniards during the last months of 2021 marked the first weeks of the...

"An older farmer like me can continue to work mechanically, but younger generations do not have that experience.”

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...

At the European level, the effects of various lockdown measures over the last few weeks are becoming more apparent, with...

East Anglia's farmers and food producers must overcome a raft of challenges in 2022 says Gary Ford, regional director of the National...

Dr. Rashmi Singh, Scientist DST launching the AI based Mobile App developed by Research Scholar of Chandigarh University Amit Verma...

The Indian Council for Agricultural Research’s Central Tuber Crop Research Institute (CTCRI) in Thiruvananthapuram has established frontline demonstration-cum-seed villages for...

NEW Zealand potato growers are being urged to get in touch with Biosecurity New Zealand if they find a new...

With its 456,000 tons of potatoes imported in the last 11 months, Uzbekistan has already set a new record of...

The LaJoie family has always been farmers—at least for as many generations as anyone cares to mention. But they haven’t...

Just before Christmas, there was information that nitrogen fertilizers became more expensive. The price of ammonium nitrate exceeded PLN 4,000. PLN per...

The winners of the CeresAwards 2021 are optimistic about the new year.

MP Richard Thomson, representing the constituency of Gordon in the House of Commons, has again pressed the UK Government on the...

There are no statistics on the richest farmers in Germany. And they didn't make it onto Forbes magazine's list of the...

O’Shea Farms from Piltown, Co Kilkenny recently joined forces with Meadowfresh Foods in Tallow, Co Waterford to market and supply...

Start the sowing campaign of potato in Spain and one of the doubts recurring each year is: What variety of seed grow?. As...

Two potato producers in neighbouring provinces experienced very different years in 2021 but shared a similar desire to help others...

Scotland has provided Ireland with the most significant proportion of the imported seed potatoes required

A potato seed multiplication company in Nakuru is providing certified seeds to farmers throughout the year, in an effort to...

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

The food holding company announced by the government is lying to people; the prices in the holding will not be lower,...

Supply-chain woes and economic inflation are on the minds of many Americans these days, and the effect of those problems...

After the strong rebound in the level of harvested potato production for the EU in 2019 and a further rise...

O’Shea Farms from Piltown, Co Kilkenny have joined forces with Meadowfresh Foods in Tallow, Co Waterford to market and supply...

Prince Edward Island (P.E.I.) potato growers and politicians are lobbying for the export of fresh potatoes to Puerto Rico to...

To ensure that there will be no food crisis after the COVID-19 plight, and to mitigate any adverse effect that...

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

The marketing year that ended in June 2021 was unlike any year the potato industry has ever experienced. Starting in...

Because the Uzbek quarantine authorities found dangerous pests (pale and golden potato nematodes) in some tuber imports from Iran and...

Some potato farms in Aroostook County, Maine have histories dating back to the early 1800s. Daniel Corey’s operation is not...

Farmers in the US believe that high fertilizer prices are also due to market manipulation. They are calling for an investigation...

After the cultivation of starch potatoes in 2021, the Dutch Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA) has identified wart...

The Prince Edward Island Potato Board, on behalf of its more than 175 members, urges all Canadians in a press...

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

According to EastFruit analysts, Uzbekistan may become one of the five largest potato importers in the world by the end of 2021. Following...

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

By Michaela Paukner posted on October 28, 2021 Supply chain shortages have some dealers digging out decades-old precision equipment to help their...

Fears have been expressed in the agriculture and fertiliser supply sectors that a global upheaval in prices could lead to...

The Canadian Potato Council runs a program with groups across the country to test potato varieties locally. Potato growers in...

Today’s high fertilizer prices are hardly a secret. The underlying reasons for the cost of these critical products, however, are...

Our Market is a consumer-driven market concept that has come over from France. In the Netherlands, the initiative will soon start...

This article appears in the December 2021 issue of Potato Grower SouthWind Farms has been around for 21 years, but brothers Robert...