Revisiting the impact of heat stress on potato
Heat during the growing season is causing disease problems for potato growers
Read moreHeat during the growing season is causing disease problems for potato growers
Read moreA reduced basic fertilization in the row scored the best financially for potatoes last year
Read moreChemigation in drip-irrigated crops allows for the delivery of systemic insecticides through irrigation water directly to the root system.
Read moreGreen manures can be used, among other things, to combat certain types of nematodes.
Read moreStudies have shown that adopting a gender perspective while conducting agronomic research and extension work provides more efficient approaches to managing pests and diseases at the field level.
Read moreGrowers using Nemathorin for the first time this spring to control nematodes in potato crops are being urged to carefully follow the guidelines on its safe use.
Read moreNyiraneza and Oyster Cove Farms of Hamilton, P.E.I., recently completed a two-year study that tested the performance of cover crops planted following the potato harvest.
Read moreStabilizing nitrogen can help make fertilizing more efficient.
Read moreUkraine's Potato Cultivation Institute has developed a high-yield new potato variety that can produce up to 100 tons per hectare
Read moreThis is evident from a recent inventory by Eurofins Agro of three crops: maize, grassland and ware potatoes. Too low a pH costs yield.
Read moreAgronomists need to know stem population to be able to model tuber numbers.
Read morePink rot is an important storage disease of potatoes. Caused by a soil-borne pathogen, Phytopthora erythroseptica, it’s found in potato-growing regions throughout the world. This pathogen thrives in saturated soils, so the disease ...
Read moreResults are in from the 2020 field-scale trial, which hoped to create a side-by-side comparison of conventional spring tillage and direct seeded potatoes.
Read moreOn average FarmLab saves farmers about 30% of their costs by cheaper sampling costs and reduced fertiliser input
Read moreGrower Jacob Vos from Bant, Flevoland, works in this way and supervises research into shallow tillage from practice.
Read moreIf potato growers decide they no longer want to pay the £42.62 per hectare levy, then the potato part of the AHDB will likely cease.
Read morePotato late blight, caused by Phytophthora infestans oomycete, is the most important disease of potato cultivation in the world. This disease affects both leaves, stems and tubers, reducing the yield by more ...
Read morePotato plants absorb large quantities of potassium (K) throughout the growing season.
Read moreA group of farmers and researchers has developed an innovative, sustainable method of tackling a pest that threatens to “annihilate” Scotland’s potato industry within 30 years. Potato cyst nematode (PCN) is increasing ...
Read moreA farmer in Manitoba, who experimented with direct seeding and minimal tillage in a potato field, harvested a crop statistically on-par with his conventionally planted fields. An experiment to try out using direct ...
Read moreThrough the Innovative Farmers programme, four farmers located in Shropshire and Lancashire are looking at an alternative control method that uses plants known as trap crops that naturally ward off pests. They ...
Read moreAt this time of the year and with the increase in cold, agricultural crops are affected by what is called root rot due to cold and dense shade, which affects the volume of productivity and ...
Read moreThe insect monitoring network in potato fields I operate across Washington’s Columbia Basin provides growers information about where and when insect pests are showing up in the region and warns them about ...
Read moreGood nematodes can suppress plant parasitic nematodes. It's worth stimulating the good nematodes instead of just paying attention to the bad ones. “Growers can easily name eight of the ten bad varieties, but none ...
Read moreIt is common to think that food crops are going to suffer negative effects due to the increase in global temperatures or the water deficit generated by climate change, however, the potential ...
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