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The potato campaign is also practically over in Castilla y León. It just remains to start, and with a very bad prospect for commercialization, as Marco Martín, president of Asopocyl, comments. There is product ...

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 a career ...

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 smaller, many ...

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 for application ...

Demo trials by BASF show that, thanks to more efficient control of rhizoctonia, seed potato growers can often harvest earlier and also get more available product from the land. In a multi-year ...

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 total investment ...

With a view to the elimination of chlorpropham, Agrifirm has conducted proactive research in recent years into alternative solutions for sprouting inhibition in potatoes. The starting point is an environmentally conscious solution with ...

In order to increase the efficiency of nitrogen fertilization, stabilized fertilizers can be worthwhile. We say what is possible in dry conditions and in normal years. The conditions for optimal nitrogen fertilization are ...

HuizingHarvest provides technical outsourcing in the agricultural industry. Our skilled team of specialists provides technical support, operator training, harvest optimization, equipment checks, installation of machines and machinery modifications around the world. We ...

In order to propose a credible alternative to intensive agriculture (a model inherited from the 1960s with disastrous environmental consequences), drone startups are developing unmanned machines, using cutting-edge technologies to help farmers ...

Sowing wildflowers into potato crops could reduce aphid-carried viruses and offer an alternative to declining access to insecticides for growers. In Scotland, trials are being carried out to discover the effectiveness of ...

This article was produced in partnership with CGIAR’s Platform for Big Data in Agriculture. Catch up with all the sessions from the Platform’s 2020 Convention here. Despite the utopian promise of “human fuel” ...

With the disappearance of chlorprofam, germ inhibition becomes an activity that demands attention again. Learn about the four solutions of germ inhibition, apply Argos and find out what data is available and ...

As produce growers struggle to improve food safety practices and mandatory reporting, one possible link attributed to foodborne illness outbreaks in leafy greens in the past decade is being addressed in a ...

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 Agriculture Council of Antigua City Council offers this free course on October 29, 30 and 31. For the first time in Antigua, a Workshop on potato cultivation is taught, being one ...

As farmers continue to struggle with labor shortages, technology steps in with innovative tools to help bridge the gap. The United Nations estimates the world’s population will expand to nearly 10 billion ...

The aim of the Plant Protection Implementation Programme is to realise a trend break, in order to arrive at cultivation systems that are less dependent on chemistry. Ten parties, two ministries and ...

The expression “genetically modified organisms” (“GMOs”) is not only void of scientific value, but has negative effects on agricultural progress and food policy. The history of crop domestication offers many examples of ...

British potato growers who supply McDonald's will receive £1 million in grants to help boost soil quality and optimise water management. The launch of the Sustainable MacFries Fund aims to increase the ...

During the Seven Years War of the mid-1700s, a French army pharmacist named Antoine-Augustin Parmentier was captured by Prussian soldiers. As a prisoner of war, he was forced to live on rations ...

Fast food giant working with McCain and Prince's Countryside Trust to help farmers improve soil health and boost resilience to climate change and Brexit McDonald's has teamed up with frozen potato firm ...

Wage goer Daan Biesheuvel of cold store Numansdorp and Gerben van Dueren den Hollander van Van Iperen are going to the farmer this week to advise potato growers on the adjustment of ...

CIPC has been banned in the European Union since 1 January 2020. The expiry date for, among other things, the storage of potatoes with CIPC, among others, has been set for 8 ...

There is a lack of practical information and practical knowledge for farmers to apply organic plant protection products and biostimulants in potatoes in a proper way. For both organic plant protection products ...