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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 hedge cutting. ...

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 a constant ...

Some Polish farmers face the difficulties of growing semazed soils on a daily basis. Sometimes they come across medium specimens, sometimes large specimens weighing up to 100 tonnes. What then to do ...

“The performance of farmers for the common good must finally be recognized and monetarily valued by consumers and society as a whole. This requires clear political commitments and, above all, decisions. Unfortunately, ...

'The sector has risks, but at the moment they seem to lie mainly with the grower' Potatoes are again harvested en masse in September. But the economic shock of the corona crisis ...

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 the expansion ...

Agricultural enterprises and farmers of the Tambov region have begun harvesting potatoes. This year, “second bread” is present in the crop rotation of 35 commodity producers, who allotted 3 hectares for it. ...

The Board of Europatat, the European Potato Trade Association, is pleased to announce the appointment of Berta Redondo Benito as the new Secretary General of the association, with effect as of today, ...

EU project "ADAPT" examines how the crop adapts to environmental stressThe potato is one of the most important staple foods in the world. It is also of enormous economic importance as a ...

Shelley farmer Bart Wattenbarger was banking on a strong market to help him recover from a widespread early season freeze last fall that destroyed about 30% of his potato crop. For awhile ...

As a result of the coronacrisis, Wilhelm Weuthen GmbH, the largest potato trading house in Europe, is not organising a Weuthen Kartoffeltag for the first time in 31 years. However, Ferdi Buffen ...

In Europe, the heat has caused a decrease in the consumption of potatoes, but also in the regrowth of new potatoes in the field. At the moment, this is resulting in difficult ...

To help tackle the challenge of sustainable food production, we are developing a digital agronomy system that aims to increase the precision with which agro-chemicals are applied. The tool we are developing ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5Y4PJXVeTQ&feature=youtu.be Our focus Founded in 1962, Wyma Solutions has continually focused on customer outcomes and quality to become one of the most innovative and agile companies in the post-harvest sector. With its ...

Farmers without protective gear apply fungicides to control late blight in Huasahuasi in Junín, Peru. Late blight is the most destructive potato disease in the world. It affects all potato producers (small-scale, ...

The GRIMME Group The family company GRIMME was founded in 1861 as a forge in Damme (Germany) and employs more than 2700 people worldwide. GRIMME Landmaschinenfabrik has been manufacturing high-quality agricultural machinery ...

World Potato Congress President, Romain Cools is very pleased to introduce Dr. André Devaux as the newest WPC International Advisor. Romain Cools: “André is a man who has illustrated he can act ...

Last week, potato collective Agrico held its central general members’ meeting. At this well attended meeting, the annual report 2017/2018 was presented and new board members were appointed. The 2017/2018 financial year ...

The James Hutton Institute's commercial subsidiary, James Hutton Limited, has entered into a five-year agreement with Technico Agri Sciences, a subsidiary of Indian company ITC Limited, for the provision of 16 potato ...

Late last month, the entire potato sector once again gathered en masse at INTERPOM PRIMEURS at Kortrijk Xpo. Despite a 2018-2019 potato season fraught with problems as a result of an exceptional ...

The West Bengal state government is providing transport subsidy for the benefit of potato farmers, businessmen and cold storage owners, for exporting potatoes to other states. The state is giving a subsidy ...

Dewulf, full-liner in agricultural machines for the cultivation of potatoes and root crops, has a number of 'firsts' prepared for Interpom 2018. For example, during this main event of the potato industry, ...

For a long time, the agricultural sector depended on the outside air for drying and cooling crops. Due to climate changes, arable farmers are no longer able to get their products through ...

Agricultural Equipment manufacturer Grimme shows a range of potato harvesting equipment in its booth at Interpom | Primeurs in Kortrijk, Belgium from November 25 - 27. The EVO 290 AirSep potato harvester ...

Manitoba, the second largest potato growing province in Canada, has a potato shortage.Growers in the province had expected to produce about 22 million hundredweight of potatoes in 2018, but the actual total ...