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To the untrained eye (and mouth), a Cheetos Snack is a Cheetos Snack. But even die-hard snack lovers might not realize the lengths to which engineers go to ensure each bite has ...

DEVELOPED WITH THE FARMER, FROM THE GROUND UP.

It’s that time the agriculture stops worrying about off-farm income.

Irish potato grower and packer Meade Potato Company has entered the starch commodity market by extracting starch from surplus potatoes and potato processing by-products. The extraction unit at the Meade Farm in ...

The UK-based Scotts Precision Manufacturing company has seen a surge in demand for its vegetable handling machine from customers in New Zealand. Scotts has sent its fourth Evolution Dirt Remover this month ...

KEY POINTS: Five years after acquiring the technology, Deere’s method of using machine vision and machine learning to identify individual plants will be tested on farms in summer 2021.The goal: Farm machines ...

Last week there was interest on the potato market in june contracts. Their quotations varied from 8.20 euros to 9.10. A signal that the cards have not yet been shuffled. Last week, the potato ...

Pepsico UK has joined forces with British clean-tech firm CCm Technologies to reduce their carbon footprint by turning their potato waste into fertiliser.Using CCm Technologies’ innovative carbon-capture technology, potato peelings leftover from ...

FULLY AUTOMATIC IRRIGATION IS A REALITY. A 25-year veteran in the irrigation industry, Ken Goodall is astounded by recent advances in irrigation automation. “It’s coming like a freight train,” he predicts. “In ...

“Vantacor insect control is an example of FMC using its formulation expertise to shrink our environmental footprint while still delivering reliable insect control,” says John McCool, FMC insecticides product manager. Besides being ...

Potato crisp manufacturing is a competitive industry, one where efficiency is a crucial factor in staying ahead of the competition. Wyma’s Vege-Polisher™ system combines both polishing and peeling technology in a unique package to ...

Consumer buying habits have a significant impact in how much water is used in agriculture Modern agriculture puts an enormous emphasis on efficiency — from the resources used to grow crops to ...

At the start of the 20th century, German chemists Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch developed a method for taking nitrogen from the air and melding it with hydrogen. It would prove to ...

Presorting collected products is not yet popular with Russian farmers and food manufacturing plants. And yet the situation is changing quickly with more and more market players introducing presorting into their production ...

Quality and traceability, two important requirements of potato fresh packing, are threatened by market disruptions arising from the COVID-19 pandemic. Lockdowns have increased home-cooking and the popularity of fresh potatoes, packers may ...

With fresh vegetable sales boosted by people cooking more at home during the COVID-19 pandemic, many potato fresh packers are stretched to capacity. Some are even turning away work because they are ...

One of the unforeseen consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic is the large increase in demand for fresh fruit and vegetables. This means that some potato fresh packers are now busier than ever, ...

The Belgian FAM makes cutting machines for all the major fruit, fish, vegetable, potato, cheese and meat-related companies in the world. Nine-two percent is exports. 'Our machines are copied to the sea ...

What did the agriculture industry learn about weed control in 2020? How can growers use what was learned to assemble weed control plans for 2021 and beyond? Willie Vogt, an executive director at ...

Agriculture is continuing to show resilience in the face of one of the most disruptive crises the world has ever seen. In the first quarter of the financial year ended June 2020, ...

The expression “genetically modified organisms” (“GMOs”) is not only void of scientific value, but has negative effects on agricultural progress and food policy. The history of crop domestication offers many examples of ...

Potato growers in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France and the United Kingdom are due to reduce their acreage next year. That is the urgent call of the umbrella growers' organisation NEPG. Next ...

The Heygate group spans farming, flour and feed milling and baking, with ten flour mills on four sites, a feed mill, two modern bakeries and 7500 acres of mainly arable land in ...

The corona crisis leaves its mark on the potato market. Large stocks and less demand are currently disastrous for the trade in free potatoes. PotatoNL has not published a target price for ...

In 1978, Wim Westhoeve, at the age of 32, started to buy Dutch potatoes from local farmers.These earlies were stored outside under special foil for immediate resale to wholesalers. These wholesalers in ...