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When entomologist Andy Jensen visits with potato growers about insects and diseases that can cause significant damage to their crops, he focuses on essential information to help them avoid trouble in the field. This holds true for…
According to Limestone Coast potato grower Terry Buckley, his produce can continue to be priced sensibly. This, while the cost of other fresh vegetables is rising. Buckley said consumers were turning to potatoes because they were affordable…
New collaborative project NATURAL organisms found in soil and their use as novel fungicides is being explored in a new collaborative project to help farmers overcome potato late blight. The work centres on utilising the latest cutting-edge…
McCain Foods Limited has acquired the predictive crop intelligence portfolio from Resson, an analytics technology firm enhancing farming efficiency, based in Canada’s New Brunswick province. Resson’s vision-intelligence-based technologies leverage field data imagery to enable farmers to make better-informed…
North-western European Potato Growers (NEPG) analysts recently announced their first estimates for the EU-04 zone potato area in 2022, talking about a 10,100 ha increase in the four countries (Belgium, The Netherlands, France, and Germany) by +2.0%…
The price paid to HZPC Holland’s seed potato growers for the 2021 harvest is EUR 33,70 (about USD 35) per 100 kg. This is slightly above the forecast price of EUR 33,10 (about USD 34.7) published last…
Preliminary reports of potato sown area in Northern Europe show small increases in the processing sector, but the overall area may be the lowest ever recorded, taking into account planting reductions for seed and starch production. “Across…
This op-ed article is by Dave Douches (PhD), professor and Director of the Potato Breeding and Genetics Program and Director of the Plant Breeding, Genetics and Biotechnology Graduate Program at Michigan State University, and Project Director of the Feed the…
Modern technologies allow growing early ripe and frost-resistant plants. More than 20,000 potato plants were located in two greenhouses with a total area of almost 600 square meters. Now in Russia there are only five such breeding…
Due to a rise in wireworm damage in root vegetable and cereal crops across the UK, industry leaders have banded together to co-fund a Fera-led R&D project to develop an end-to-end solution for the sector. Enigma I…
Native roots: imported potato varieties may soon be completely replaced by Ural ones. In the village of Kochnevskoe, where the selection and seed center operates, they plan to produce ten thousand tons of elite potato seeds per…
Growers urged to attend meetings to shape future of sector A GROUP of nine seed potato growers from across Scotland, along with technical back-up, are putting together a new organisation to support and develop the seed potato…
