We talked to an entrepreneur in the sector about benefits for the farmer with the marketing of processed potatoes. Colombia barely processes 20% of the potatoes it produces, a figure ...
There are too few reefer containers (refrigerated containers) available. This puts a brake on the export of onions and seed potatoes to remote sales countries. The cause is the corona crisis. In various ...
Recently discovered interactions between plant and viral proteins open up new avenues for making plants resistant to viruses, thus safeguarding crop yields in changing climate conditions. Many diseases caused by ...
For more than 100 years, the fertilizer industry – and agriculture at large – has benefited off the work of science and technology. Starting in 1918, with the Haber Bosch ...
Colorado farmer Brendon Rockey, who grows ware and seed potatoes at 7,600ft, will tell the conference how he has met the challenges of growing crops at high altitude with less ...
The online portal of the Potates News announces a new section - Company History. And he suggests that all participants in the potato and vegetable market place in it a ...
Does absence from the potato farm make the heart grow fonder? In talking to young potato and vegetable growers, most were encouraged to find their own paths before deciding on ...
Flapping, burning or pulling leaves. Growers are looking for alternatives to haulm killing now that Reglone (and Finale) have definitely disappeared from the scene. Because the 'chemical cabinet' is getting smaller and ...
Potato growers can now apply a liquid nematicide using a conventional boom sprayer, after it gained approval. Velum Prime, the liquid nematicide from Bayer containing fluopyram, has received on-label approval ...
Water harvesting is expected to increase in the coming weeks Between November 16 and 20, the prices of the special potato Agate per bag of 50 kg were R $ ...
The 2020 lifting window has come with its own challenges, but relative to 2019 it’s certainly been more straightforward for most. As at 10 November 2020, it was estimated that ...
Remove the Guesswork My Father-in-Law, let’s call him Joe - because that’s his name - is a great sports fan. He enjoys all kinds of sports, but he is especially ...
Drs. Paul Bethke and Shelley Jansky are researchers in the Agricultural Research Service's Vegetable Crop Research Unit located in Madison, WI. Their research encapsulates efforts to improve the breeding, cultivation, ...
For the Chinese potato trade campaign 2020/21, which runs from September to August, available domestic harvest volumes will amount to 99 million tonnes. This value represents an increase of 3% ...
Michael Family Farms is located right in the kind of sweet spot that has the potential to make a lot of growers jealous. Urbana, Ohio, where the Michaels have farmed for four ...
The total harvest of British potatoes this year will be 5.3m tonnes according to estimates – up 2.8% on 2019 but below the five-year average of 5.4m tonnes. This estimate ...
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 ...
The Top Sector Agri & Food has approved four new research proposals from BO Akkerbouw. It concerns research and knowledge dissemination about soil, fertilization, stem nematodes and crop residues. BO Akkerbouw's ...
V-Wing creates shallow ditches that farmers can farm right through, with a minimum of ditching passes It bothers Swan River, Man., farmer Jeff Penner to see big water volumes churning ...
In the first part of the 20th century, Fred Gumz left his native Germany to seek his fortune in America. He eventually made his way to Indiana, where he set to chasing the American dream ...
Corona is forcing potato breeding companies and 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, ...
The continued wet weather in late October/early November has extended the harvesting season beyond eight weeks for some, which is clearly not good news where stores have been part-filled and ...
The dangers of counterfeit pesticides to environmental and human health was raised on a recent BBC Countryfile episode. There has been a major rise in the illegal trade of counterfeit, ...
One of the country’s biggest potato producers is using an innovative app to improve the marketable yield and efficiency of its crops. The Elveden Estate is using the Crop4Sight management tool to ...
WORLD POTATO CONGRESS INC. WEBINAR DECEMBER 15, 2020 AT 09:00 A.M. EASTERN STANDARD TIME – “DEVELOPING THE PIPELINE FROM GENOMICS TO NEW PRODUCTS” WITH DR. MARK TAYLOR The World Potato ...