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On November 19, the Xunta announced the lifting of the ban on planting potatoes in nine other municipalities in the provinces of A Coruña and Lugo affected by the Guatemalan moth (Tecia ...

The starting point for Europe's trade relationship with the UK has begun, separately from a trade deal, with "third country status" vital to keep agricultural goods flowing across the English Channel and ...

Seed potatoes growers say they are being treated like pawns in a political game with £13.5m of exports in doubt after the end of the Brexit transition period. Growers have been working ...

The cost price for growing ware potatoes will increase in 2021, reports the Dutch Arable Farming Trade Union (NAV) after a calculation for example farms on sand and clay. The main cause ...

BCPC’s Julian Westaway said, “Having access to the latest pesticide information is vital for all those involved in their use and application. The UK Pesticide Guide, in both its online and print ...

Pumping water for irrigation is perhaps the biggest consumer of energy on a farm. This has become a major concern for farmers affected by rapid increases in energy prices. With unpredictable rainfall ...

The rules regarding crop registration are being observed more and more strictly, also in Belgium. It is therefore not easy to keep track of everything during a season. The CropVision program from AgroVision (formerly ...

Control. Efficiency. Sustainability. Technology. All are shaping the future of production agriculture. With low margins, shrinking water resources and increasing regulation, the future is, in fact, here.This combination of forces has dramatically ...

Innoquest Inc., a designer and manufacturer of precision meters for the agriculture industry since 1993, has released two improved flow meters with larger capacities than their predecessors, expanding for uses in new ...

Newer irrigation systems like drip and subsurface drip irrigation (SDI) have been used by cutting-edge alfalfa growers for quite some time. Early adopters recognized what these systems could offer; now benefits including ...

Karlsruhe - The EU approvals for the pesticide active ingredients imidacloprid, denathonium benzoate, calcium phosphide and zeta-cypermethrin end on December 1, 2020 in accordance with Implementing Regulation (EU) No. 2020/1643. As a ...

The discovery of wart disease on two plots in the Peat Colonial area is a cause for concern for the potato sector. The infection was found in Festien, a variety with a high ...

Participants in the webinar about agricultural robots want to work together in a new ecosystem to play a key role worldwide. It is precisely the robot builders who collaborated with industrial suppliers at ...

You cannot use what’s happening above ground as a guide to what’s happening below, according to new research into alternative desiccants. A key finding from the work is that the rate of ...

 Farmobile LLC, Agriculture’s Independent Data Company™, today announced that The Fertilizer Institute (TFI), the leading voice of the fertilizer industry, is supporting through outreach the advancement of agronomic and machine-collected data for ag ...

As part of measures to address the inadvertent spread of pests with germplasm distribution, Germplasm Health Units (GHU) in CGIAR are organizing a week-long awareness program on “phytosanitary safety for pest prevention” on ...

Europatat welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the public consultation on the major review of the European Union’s trade policy launched by the European Commission. Our members support the EU’s ambition to establish a ...

The arable farmers and open-field vegetable growers often adhere to the application of permitted medium and the associated administrative obligations. However, according to the NVWA, things often go wrong in the field. 30 percent ...

It is not for nothing that Germans are also called potatoes in slang. The hunger for the tasty tuber is great in this country. But it is becoming increasingly difficult for potato farmers to ...

Measurements on organic arable, wine and fruit-growing areas in Switzerland show that pesticides are transported for kilometers through the air. This also applies to hardly volatile substances. Plant protection products (PPPs) applied to ...

Agronomic improvement comes first, followed by nutritional enhancement and biotic stress resistance as traits of field trials. Regarding the biotech crops, potato is the most tested crop with a fifth of the ...

Scottish potato farmers have said that uncertainty surrounding their ability to sell to Northern Ireland post-Brexit is causing millions of pounds in losses, prompting Scotland’s environment minister to accuse the government of treating the ...

Corona is forcing the potato trading houses to think about a different set-up of the traditional variety shows this year. A number of companies opt for an event online, others have decided to ...

The fungicidal potato stain Monceren Pro must no longer be used. The permissible residue levels for this have been reduced. The Federal Office for Consumer Protection and Food Safety revoked the approval from January ...

Questions of data replication are now being asked by those concerned about data ownership. Questions around data ownership have been long discussed in and outside the agriculture sector – but are they ...