Evil Grain: The Wild Tale of History’s Biggest Crop Insurance Scam
Robert Carl Stokes, the kingpin of crop insurance fraud, helmed a historic cabal that took advantage of graft and corruption at all levels of agriculture to the tune of at ...
Robert Carl Stokes, the kingpin of crop insurance fraud, helmed a historic cabal that took advantage of graft and corruption at all levels of agriculture to the tune of at ...
‘Sometimes your truck needs a tuneup, maybe sometimes you yourself do’P.E.I.'s Farmer Assistance Program has seen an increased number of calls in each of the last three years from people ...
Profitability and productivity are key components to the survival of a farm operation, and efficiency is a key variable in calculating how profitable and productive an operation is. To perform ...
This latest edition of American Vegetable Grower magazine’s Field Scouting Guide concentrates on palestriped flea beetle (Systena blanda). John C. Palumbo, University of Arizona, shares tips on how to spot and treat for this ...
WANATAH, Ind. — If you’re interested in using chemigation on your farm, it’s important to do your homework first and then follow label guidelines carefully. “Chemigation is the process of ...
Without this tMRL, for which the entire European potato chain has worked, the situation for most potato sheds would have been dramatic. Belpotato.be reminds the potato sector of the importance ...
With the advent of precision agriculture, a bevy of data is readily available for farmers from satellites and drones, but too much information can be overwhelming. That’s why it’s important ...
Wim Le Grand is employed as manager at a vof in which two independent arable companies have housed their machines. Mutual trust and common sense form the basis for cooperation. ...
With higher acreage and yields equal to the five-year average, the harvest of consumer potatoes in North-West Europe is 3.8 percent higher this year than last year. The Netherlands does ...
(MENAFN - The Conversation) Demand for potatoes in eastern Africa has been growing steadily , achieving an annual growth of 3.1% between 1993 and 2020. This growth is driven in ...
Practice centre for Precision Agriculture at Van den Borne Potatoes in Reusel should grow into a Brabant Farm of the Future. Several parties spoke out on this last week. The ...
Since 2000/01 potatoes accounted for approximately 45% of total vegetable crops produced in South Africa and contribute around R8.5 billion to the economy. These numbers, however, are under threat due ...
Philip Meade Sr. first began selling potatoes in the towns around Meath and Louth in 1977. Bringing delicious and nutritious potatoes to the people of the Northeast was a true calling ...
A diagnostic lab had to confirm these potato mop-top virus (PMTV) symptoms. Note concentric arcs that can occur with these viruses. This textbook symptom of spraing can be misleading because ...
Two companies one story SOLANUZ and AGROVER https://youtu.be/zJvtgObaOfE AGROVER “Agrover” LLC and group of companies, which produces mainly potato and other agricultural products, is dynamically developing, vertically and horizontally integrated ...
The 2020/21 potato storage season is proving to be one of the most challenging yet for the potato industry. With storage season fast approaching, harvest provides the best opportunity to ...
The Industry Advisory Group (IAG) of the IPPC ePhyto Solution calls on governments to support the adoption of ePhyto to facilitate international agricultural trade, which would be crucial in safeguarding ...
A final report by the Ministry of Agriculture shows an increase in potato consumption by 0.5% to 30.19 kilos per person per year. In a potato-producing country such as Spain ...
CALS Researcher Leads National Project The University of Idaho will lead a $3.2 million project to combat microscopic worms that threaten potato production. The project, which focuses on the pale ...
Kiremko is a Dutch company founded in 1965 and based in Montfoort, The Netherlands. As a world leader in the manufacture of process lines for the potato processing industry, we ...
The business has come a long way since Eddie Finnegan set it up in the late 1970’s. Back then as an agricultural contractor, Eddie focused mainly on silage, tillage and ...
Damage caused by ride needles has become more and more common in recent years. On the one hand, potato growers are facing the elimination of a number of chemicals. On ...
Preserving the potato and maintaining its quality, reducing or even avoiding possible damage, has become a challenge for equipment manufacturers specialized in this task. The mechanized harvesting of potatoes shows ...
Summer is the potato harvesting season in Castile and Leon, the region with the most area of tuber cultivation nationwide. Patatas Melendez, a company based in Medina Del Campo, is ...
Potatoes are the only crop that can be grown relatively easily in all regions of China. In 2018, China's potato production was about 18 million metric tons, and due to ...