Growing seeds
Seed potato cultivation: precision farming helps arable farmers
One more tuber per meter of potato ridge can yield 250 euros extra per hectare. With 40 to 50 hectares of seed potatoes, that means 10,000 euros on an annual basis.'
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IRRIGATION
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Seeds
Canada’s Québec Parmentier acquires large-scale seed potato producer
Canadian potato company Québec Parmentier announced the acquisition of Ferme G. G. & A. Montminy, a renowned and large-scale seed potato producer located in the Péribonka region of Quebec. Being located in a ‘Protected Cultivation Zone’ gives it an…
Agronomy
Improve Tillage Practices: Important Questions to Examine
There is a rift tearing farming families apart. Dogmatic views are causing fissures at dinner tables all across America. People are closing their minds to alternative views of their neighbors and building narratives and echo chambers. Politics?…
Seeds
Egypt imported 131 thousand tons of seed potato and 25 thousand tons of potato products (French Fries and Chips)
Sources revealed to Al-Mal that 131 thousand tons of potato seeds arrived from European facilities approved for import from last October until early January for 76 approved varieties. The imported potato seeds are used in the summer…
Growing seeds
Growing new varieties is like driving a Formula 1 race car
Every year new varieties starts making the rounds. For decades, plant breeders and researchers across North America have spent countless hours meticulously matching potential partners in hopes of creating a better potato. With bleary-eyed, dogged determination, they pore over…
IRRIGATION
Seeks $1B investment in water: Arizona Governor Delivers<br>Final State of the State
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey delivered his final State of the State to a joint session of the Arizona Legislature. While recapping successes of the administration over the past seven years, Ducey set an ambitious legislative agenda for the 2022…
Company history
Brendon Rockey’s<br>3-generation irrigated potato<br>farm at Center, Colorado
The synergy creating the farm’s well-being results from a process of discovery beginning 30 years ago, with Rockey’s uncle.
AGROTECHNOLOGY
Smart soil bugs offer farmers an ecofriendly route to controlling crop diseases
John Innes Centre team isolated and tested hundreds of strains of Pseudomonas bacteria from the soil of a commercial potato field
Agronomy
More build-up of pest wireworms<br>due to warmer summers<br>and 5 questions
Due to the warmer seasons in recent years, arable farmers are more often bothered by pest wireworms. Due to the higher temperatures, more generational build-up of the damaged animals takes place. That's what advisor Christoffel den Herder of…
New potato variety
Europlant presents ‘low input’ potato varieties
Europlant presents potato varieties with high nutrient efficiency. The high-yielding and high-quality special varieties for low input production protect the environment and save costs. The rising energy prices of recent months are also leading to significantly increased…
New potato variety
UK Potato Growers’ New Gold Fever – Irish Gold Variety
The new Irish potato variety ‘Irish Gold’ is rapidly gaining the attention of UK growers. The variety supplied exclusively to UK-based O’Kane Foods for the United Kingdom market was bred by famous breeders Harry Kehoe and Andrew…
Seeds
Covenant robust potato varieties fans out across Europe
The covenant for the cultivation and sale of robust potato varieties is spreading across Europe. The United Kingdom, Belgium and France are also working on or are already working on such a list to promote the cultivation and…