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Editor’s note: The VISION Conference 2022 will feature expanded exploration of where innovation is rapidly driving change, including trends in high-value specialty crops, sustainability and carbon sequestration programs, and high-tech controlled environment production systems. One emerging topic on the agenda is…
There’s a growing global potato shortage — a real problem for a planet addicted to french fries and chips. A McDonald's in Tokyo on Dec. 29. In Japan, McDonald’s locations stopped offering large and medium-size french fry…
The sprout inhibitor CIPC has been banned in Europe since last year. It was a practical and inexpensive solution to limit sprouting of potatoes. Professionals have proposed numerous alternative solutions, and Arvalis, a French research institute focused…
The shortage of water in the reservoirs spaniards during the last months of 2021 marked the first weeks of the current campaign seed. Few records lows that caused a lot of uncertainty in the agricultural sector. Especially in the…
After a very wet summer, slow and difficult harvesting conditions in Belgium, Holland and Germany.After one of the most humid summers in the last decades, end of harvest conditions were slow and somewhat difficult in most countries.…
A fourth-generation potato farming and marketing family in North Dakota is leaping into a new era of electronic potato grading. As AgWeek’s Mikkel Pates reports, the Hall family partnership of Hoople in northeast North Dakota on Oct. 25, 2021…
The area of seed potato crops for certification in Ireland increased to 299 hectares in 2021, helping to fill a gap left by a Brexit ban on imports from non-EU countries. This was a 29% increase in…
(NOTE: This is the first of a two-part series on the Vision 2026 program to rethink the seed potato certification system.) A crop consultant’s persistence to help seed potato growers and belief that there was a faster…
This year, the potato growers from North Rhine-Westphalian (NRW) in Germany, harvested 1.92m tons, a total which is 13.3% higher than in 2020. With a yield of 51.6 tons per hectare, the amount of spuds lifted this…
After nearly 25 years of export bans, U.S. potato farmers could begin to distribute and sell more fresh potatoes across all of Mexico by early 2022. American potato farmers and exporters currently are barred from selling fresh…
The latest Union Nationale des Producteurs de Pommes de Terre (UNPT) forecasts for the 2022-2023 potato campaign show that the attractiveness and profitability of the cultivar crop are still in question. To rectify the situation, UNPT’s experts…
A BAN on potato exports from Prince Edward Island to the US because of potato wart is likely to continue long into the new year, according to the island's Agriculture Minister. Bloyce Thompson told a news conference…
