Between September and December last year, the Tummers starch production line at a Danish starch factory, consisting of four of ...

For the 2021 season, the four-row self-propelled potato harvester VENTOR 4150 will be equipped with some new practical features. Equipped ...

Kenya has applied for a Sh656 million grant from the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) to boost research on ...

Collaboration should ensure that all companies that participate in the potato chain earn from it,

The seed potato sector has been left disappointed by confirmation that there will be no relaxation of the EU ban ...

Studies have shown that adopting a gender perspective while conducting agronomic research and extension work provides more efficient approaches to ...

On-farm innovation helps put nematicide in the right place

Growers using Nemathorin for the first time this spring to control nematodes in potato crops are being urged to carefully ...

There newly released varieties of potato are expected to respond to needs of stakeholders of the potato value chain, including ...

Nyiraneza and Oyster Cove Farms of Hamilton, P.E.I., recently completed a two-year study that tested the performance of cover crops ...

The weed control solutions from crop.zone are being brought into use for the first time in Switzerland.

farmers still fear that (part of) their harvest will be lost. "Better give us a lot of snow,"

A new protocol for estimating the determinacy of potato varieties will be released in the next few months and will ...

Stabilizing nitrogen can help make fertilizing more efficient.

Teagasc and IPM Potato Group have recently released a new potato variety which is resistant to potato cyst nematode (PCN)

Relatively good potato prices can currently be hedged on the futures market. Around 1,000 euros more per hectare than on ...

Ukraine's Potato Cultivation Institute has developed a high-yield new potato variety that can produce up to 100 tons per hectare

People who have long loved the snack at the center of this iconic Cincinnati jingle soon will be unable to ...

This is evident from a recent inventory by Eurofins Agro of three crops: maize, grassland and ware potatoes. Too low ...

Whether it concerns sorting, processing, weighing or packaging - more and more fully automated solutions are being used. The purpose ...

After last year’s ad featuring the animated duo Rick and Morty™, the Pringles 2021 campaign further propels viewers into the ...

Agronomists need to know stem population to be able to model tuber numbers.

Pink rot is an important storage disease of potatoes. Caused by a soil-borne pathogen, Phytopthora erythroseptica, it’s found in potato-growing regions ...

Contract cut had a major impact on their operation but added that this year’s drought hurt them even more

Without adequate H-2A agriculture employees at planting and beyond, some U.S. farmers face a crippling financial blow in 2021.

The average price of arable land rose in the fourth quarter of 2020 to € 74,100 per hectare, a plus ...

Since the 1st of January 2021, the RUCIP European Committee has a new internal organisation that aimsto maintain the continuity ...

Super Bowl celebrations will look different this year, but snacks will continue to be a welcome guest. According to results ...

360 Yield Center, says the system uses 40% less water then a center pivot and costs half as much as ...

ARA is an ultra-high precision sprayer that is mounted behind a tractor. It is able to distinguish crops from weeds, ...

This situation has resulted in the region of Castile-Leon having around 50% more than usual in storage at this time, ...

SormaTech, the Sorma Group’s proprietary optical sorting machine, now features a further technological advancement: the research and development center run ...

With the COVID-19 pandemic changing by the day, plans for 2021 potato acres are still up in the air as ...

Farm Frites wants a stable supply of potatoes and is therefore focusing on multi-year contracts in contract negotiations this year.

Overnight, the Washington Potato Company potato dehydration plant in Warden, Washington, burned down. The fire caused the immediate evacuation of ...

Frito-Lay today issued a voluntary recall of a small number of 13 1/2 oz. “Party Size” bags of Ruffles Original ...

Ard-Jan and Diny have a contracting company and grow different crops. Yet there is another trade: The Potato Hut. The ...

In the export figures for Dutch seed potatoes, Belgium is causing a major shift compared to last year.

State statistics on potatoes grown in Ukraine do not match the actual figures and are exaggerated by about two-thirds, according ...

Several studies and multi-year practical experience have shown that shallow plowing has clear advantages over the usual plowing depth of ...

As we mark the 50th anniversary since the foundation of CIP and the CGIAR, you can be proud of our collective achievement. Our work ...

Singapore’s love affair with mala continues on it seems. Mala xiang guo stores can be found in nearly every major ...

Results are in from the 2020 field-scale trial, which hoped to create a side-by-side comparison of conventional spring tillage and ...

At the end of 2020, the Ukrainian Association of Potato Producers warned that without potato imports in the current marketing ...

In France, the number of new tractor registrations fell last year. According to figures from the Association of French Agricultural ...

As in many potato-growing parts of the world, late blight disease stifles production and earnings. In China, the story is no different as smallholder potato farmers lose millions of tons of potato ...

Online grocery shopping will be here to stay following the pandemic, but the food supply industry will need to get ...

A Commission composed (as from 1/1/2021 onwards) out of 10 persons, of which 5 active in the potatoes trade and ...

potato products stagnated again in many countries, causing grower prices to fall to 66 points in November, 17% lower than ...

In the face of accelerated climate change, COVID-19 and growing populations, breeding at One CGIAR has a chance to lead the way towards food ...