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The European Potato Trade Association is pleased to announce the appointment of Romans Vorssas the new Technical Affairs Director of the Association, with effect as of today, 26 October 2020. Romans Vorss ...

The dry, warmer-than-normal growing season this year presents significant challenges for managing soil and crop residue this fall. Excessively dry soil conditions this season make field preparation and tillage this fall challenging, ...

What did the agriculture industry learn about weed control in 2020? How can growers use what was learned to assemble weed control plans for 2021 and beyond? Willie Vogt, an executive director at ...

The day I became a farmer, I became less important in the eyes of other people and society—and the experience led me to understand the value of telling stories about agriculture as ...

Potato Days in the Netherlands is an internationally known event on the annual potato industry event schedule. Every year in November, the event is organized by several companies, including potato breeder HZPC. This ...

Farming requires a high tolerance for dancing with nature. That’s especially true for North Dakota producers such as Mark Cheatley. In places, his soil poses a particular challenge: salinity creating chemical reactions ...

The Bender clan are potato people. From raising tubers especially for potato chips to the everyday table spud, they are experts in growing America’s most popular root vegetable. Given that, it should ...

NON-TECHNICAL SUMMARY: This trans-disciplinary CAP project addresses three legislatively mandated areas; research in plant breeding and genetics of disease resistance; efforts to identify and address threats from pests and diseases; and efforts to ...

It’s no secret that farming has become increasingly high-tech, but a partnership between The Ohio State University and an Ohio agribusiness is taking things even further with new field scouting technology that ...

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 pest. BASICS ...

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 familiarise yourself ...

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 ...

• The Faculty of Life Sciences of the University of Vienna coordinates a consortium of 17European leading academic research institutions, potato breeders, a non-profit EUassociation, a government agency and a screening technology ...

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 ...

After making the biggest debut in Taco Bell history nearly one year ago, the critically-acclaimed Nacho Fries return to menus today for a limited time. Challenging the traditional french fry paradigm, Nacho ...

Key Technology, a member of the Duravant family of operating companies, introduces the newest automatic defect removal system for potato strips – ADR EXOS™ – at Interpom booth #257. As the only ...

The total potato harvest in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and France in 2018 will be at least 20 percent lower than last year, according to the latest estimates of the North-western European ...

Gourmet chips manufacturer, Pipers Crisps Ltd, has doubled its packaging capacity and reduced waste thanks to the installation of high speed packaging solutions from tna.The new installation has enabled Pipers Crisps to ...

Bill Watts has joined AHDB as Arable Knowledge Exchange Manager (Potatoes) for the West Midlands, South West and Wales. Having recently completed his PhD, Bill has extensive research experience in crop management ...

Innovation will take center stage at Produce Marketing Association’s (PMA) refreshed 2018 Fresh Summit Convention and Expo when it convenes in less than two weeks (October 18-20) in Orlando, Florida, USA. Attendees ...

Cultivating organic crops can be particularly challenging for farmers, but at PotatoEurope 2018, visitors will able to learn about the latest farming practices and market opportunities in their sector.Some 20 exhibitors will ...

The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) estimates that the total area in Great Britain planted with potatoes is 119,000 hectares(ha), a fall of three per cent on the previous year. This ...

This video describes advances by the International Potato Center and the National Agricultural Research Organisation (NARO) of Uganda to develop a potato variety resistant to late blight. For smallholder farmers such as ...

Great American Snacks, Inc., a subsidiary of McCain Foods USA, Inc., announced today that it will close operations at its Monroe, North Carolina manufacturing plant due to the age of the building ...

In the United Kingdom, McCain Foodservice partnered with Google and leading food and drink experts to launch future thinking on flavour, craft, menus and how consumers choose where to eat. The event ...