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A Sinn Féin MEP has questioned the European Commission, members of which attended a sitting of the European Parliament Agricultural Committee last evening (November 30), on what can be done about spiralling ...

University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) scientist Johan Johan Desaeger believes an integrated strategy is the best long-term approach for producers trying to manage nematodes. Growers are more ...

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

Wet weather and rising fertiliser prices are forcing farmers to rethink their potato plantings, with tonnages expected to be down significantly in the upcoming season.  Months of wet weather has made the ground in ...

It would seem that the iron wheels in tractors are a relic of the past ... Nothing could be further from the truth, in one of the Dutch farms this solution improves ...

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 ...

THE UK Soil Health Initiative (UKSHi) has produced a series of guides for growers seeking advice on soil health. The guides focus on the key practical points farmers can do to improve soil ...

Around 740 thousand tonnes of potatoes were harvested by farmers in Tajikistan in the current season as of the end of the last work week, Eastfruit analysts report. This is 100.5 thousand ...

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 ...

Having the vantage point of 40 plus years to look out over the potato industry, one could expect many changes. Some were not even predictable.

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 ...

The ground-breaking organisation first set up by Scottish seed potato growers will celebrate its 50th anniversary this weekend.

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 ...

During the event, one farmer asked: “Can a soil test help determine the need for a fungicide application, and does healthy soil correlate with less need for fungicide?” Ken Ferrie, Farm Journal ...

The CIP Genebank initiated in vitro cultures more than 40 years ago and has extensive expertise in developing and assaying tissue culture technologies for these crops. In vitro cultures are initiated from and maintained sterily as identical ...

Due to potato stocks depleting rapidly, the retail price of spuds rose sharply by 39%. Each kilo was sold for USD0.25 to USD0.32 in Dhaka markets these days, whereas it was USD0.18 ...

After one of the wettest summers in recent decades, potato crop conditions at the end of the harvest period were not always easy in most countries. France was the exception with a very ...

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.

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 ...

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, ...

According to a report by Farmers Weekly’s Philip Clarke, the AHDB is warning potato growers who failed to submit a 2021 potato planting return form and who refuse to pay this year’s levy that they ...

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 ...

The economy is raising more than just prices as farmers question how to manage fertilizer investments in 2022. For Helena Agri-Enterprises, LLC, the answer lies beneath the surface. Soil health is one ...