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Growers who expand their potato area face a costly choice between a trailed and a self-propelled harvester. Farm size, soil, labour and the cost of downtime matter more than the type of drive.
A grower in Qiqihar, in north-east China, reports a yield of 6,000 jin per mu, or about 45 tonnes per hectare, on 210 mu of potatoes. Large tubers go to the fresh market, and small ones go…
A grower picks a variety for yield, resistance and maturity. The buyer picks it on sight, by the color of the cut flesh — and that snap decision quietly sorts the crop into different kitchens, different price…
Powdery scab and common scab can leave near-identical lesions on potato tubers, yet they are caused by entirely different organisms and call for different management responses. A team at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC) has…
Potatoes cost 1.27 zloty per kg on Polish wholesale markets in mid-September, 62% more than a year earlier. The national agricultural economics institute expects a harvest of about 6 million tonnes, against 7 million tonnes in 2025.
Potato growers in the Spanish region of Castilla y León have planted about 15% less this year. Yields are 35–40 tonnes per hectare instead of the usual 45–46, according to the regional growers' association.
The autumn harvest in Austria is worse than feared, according to the national chamber of agriculture. Potatoes are among the hardest-hit crops, with expected yields 50–70% below the five-year average in some regions.
The French potato trade body has cut the minimum size for potatoes sold for processing into French fries from 50 mm to 45 mm for this season. In Calvados, a maker of crisps and fresh fries says…
Growers on the Åland Islands report lower yields and unusually small potatoes after a dry summer. The local crisps factory, which needs about 30,000 tonnes a year, has found stem rot and tuber rot in some lots.
Seed potato crops in Punjab must be planted by 15 October and have their haulms cut by 31 December, under a new standard procedure. The aim is to protect seed tubers from viruses carried by aphids.
Potato crop flowering in the Puno region, one of the highland areas CONVEAGRO says is exposed to drought. Photo: Bernardo Valentin / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Peru's National Agricultural Convention, CONVEAGRO, has told POTATOES NEWS that…
Russia's potato imports from China fell to $1.8 million in August, down 25% year-on-year and roughly 2.5 times lower than in July 2026. The sharp month-on-month decline points to a rapid cooling of demand after a stronger…
