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ABP’s Port of Ipswich is bucking the trend and seeing record amounts arrive at its shores.

The University of Maine has received $510,104 in federal funding to conduct research on potato breeding in Maine to make the crop more heat-tolerant and resistant to pests. The funding was awarded ...

Farm Carbon Toolkit is delighted to announce a new collaboration with Mercian Ltd, the UK’s largest supplier of crisping potatoes. Farm Carbon Toolkit is using its years of experience in carbon footprinting ...

Finding successful marketing concepts is a constant concern of direct marketers. One way to reach customers is the online farm shop Bauernbox by CeresAward finalist Annika Ahlers. But your project could soon face competition ...

The new Tasteful Partners entity, which emerged after Tasteful Selections took over RPE, is a wholly-owned CSS Farms subsidiary. Tasteful Selections was incorporated in 2009 by multi-generational potato farmers who recognized an ...

Businesses and residents in Kensington, P.E.I., are already starting to feel the effects of the U.S. border being closed to fresh Island potatoes. Kensington, P.E.I., located in the heart of a big ...

Scientists at the University of Florida developed an innovative modeling approach to the assessment of climate adaptation and mitigation opportunities in fruit and vegetable supply chains and found out in this respect ...

A knowledge packed learning event for key information on potato diseases, soil health, and growing solutions. Everyone in the potato industry is invited to take part in this knowledge-packed learning event for ...

Throughout 2021, as part of Potato Grower’s celebration of our 50th year in publication, we will be honoring in our pages and on our website 50 of the potato industry’s most innovative and ...

economists expect high input prices to persist through spring.

In the absence of harmony between the biology of the variety and the environment, the physiological functions of the body are disrupted, which leads to a weakening of its viability, depression and, ...

Studies in three Africa countries validate the value of seed system tools  Cassava trader in Uganda Seed systems are essential for getting new crop varieties to farmers and, in the case of banana, cassava, potato, sweetpotato ...

In production conditions, the variety is gradually deteriorating. To maintain all its valuable biological properties at a high level at all stages of seed production, special seed methods and measures are used: ...

The potato breeding world is taking in the whole picture when it comes to diploids.  The words diploids and true potato seeds have been popping up a lot in the potato research ...

Scientists have said that there is a need for effective ways to cope with a deadly disease dubbed “Potato Bacterial Wilt (PBW) Disease” that continues to affect Irish Potato farmers. According to the researcher, ...

For decades, the University of Maine has devoted valuable agricultural research to studying how to improve potato crops, a central element of the state’s agricultural economy. Over the past year, the focus ...

Seed production is directly related to breeding. As a result of breeding work, new varieties are created. It realizes the achievements of breeding by introducing new varieties into production and growing high-yielding ...

Idaho’s potato industry uses to produce about 90% of the potatoes grown in Idaho

The US Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s chip potato industry absorbs annually almost 83,000 tons of primarily white spuds, locally produced. To keep that flow, the farmers rely on the potato research program at ...

It was supposed to be for one year only when the Prince Edward Island provincial government placed a moratorium on high capacity wells for irrigation in 2001. Instead, it lasted for two ...

Three keys to making the plan work

By using frozen food technology, the brothers opened the first McCain Foods production facility in their hometown of Florenceville, New Brunswick, in 1957, producing frozen french fries, which have become a signature product, not ...

The giant Arterris, based in Castelnaudary, Aude department, France, recently acquired Massaferro, a benchmarking business for potatoes from Provence, based in the plain of La Crau, the French Var department. The acquisition ...

Seven plant production and ag machinery inventions presented - Startup Challenge part of Agritechnica on Tour series – Innovative spirit of region at the fore – Top prize – an Agritechnica stand ...

In general, the peasants value rainfall positively since they have recharged the aquifers It never rains to everyone's liking, although this time it seems that most farmers are satisfied with the rainfall ...