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He didn’t grow up in Idaho. He didn’t even begin his farming career in Idaho

In the same way virtual assistants help us discover our next favorite song, a new software package has used advanced machine learning to help farmers and agronomists pinpoint what their ...

Consumers' expectations of the "perfect potato" may need to change as the food industry drives towards more climate-friendly agriculture. Andrew Francis, farms director at the Elveden Estate near Thetford That ...

Washington, D.C. (June 9, 2021)— Yesterday, 288 agricultural organizations representing the geographic and commodity diversity of our nation’s farmers urged immediate Senate action to develop and pass legislation addressing agricultural ...

IN its newly-released inaugural 2020 Sustainability Report, Corteva Agriscience has set science-based targets for its greenhouse gas emission reductions and highlighted its 2030 goal to increase the resilience of the ...

One of the world’s largest manufacturers of frozen potato products, McCain, has recently committed to ensuring that every potato grown across its 370,000 acres worldwide is done so using regenerative ...

Some of these new irrigation tech technologies will be showcased in a couple of virtual sessions during Potato Expo 2021.

Many things can go wrong when growing a potato crop. Some problems are caused by biotic factors — living organisms like pathogens, weeds, insects, and nematodes. Other problems are abiotic ...

In 20 years the potatoes ​area has fallen from 3,600 hectares to only 770

Potato breeder HZPC believes that old EU legislation should make way for new techniques for plant breeding. The potato trading house therefore embraces the conclusions of the European Commission study on ...

As a historic drought ravages farms and ranches throughout the Klamath Basin on the California-Oregon border there are visible signs of the calamity everywhere. Fields lie fallow. There are dust ...

Europatat is part of an international consortium involved in the ADAPT (“  Accelerated Development of Multiple Stress Tolerant Potato Varieties  ”) research project, which aims to develop new strategies to make potatoes ...

PepsiCo, Inc. (NASDAQ:PEP) today announced a new, impact-driven Positive Agriculture ambition, anchored by a goal to spread regenerative farming practices across 7 million acres, approximately equal to its entire agricultural ...

Proper cutting is a chief component of any produce processor. Depending on the product, incoming raw fruits and vegetables often require cutting into different shapes or configurations and it’s an issue ...

Our Fight Against Blight programme started in 2004 and since then ‘blight scouts’ have sent in over 10,000 samples of potentially blight infested potato plants for genotyping. Each year the ...

Are they broadening their diet and taking a bite out your potato profits? Ground squirrels and voles cause yield losses in crops.

The world is moving fast and we are only at the beginning of a new era in technological progression, which is why the produce processing plants you know today may ...

Driving toward a goal of using more sustainable materials in packaging, two Lamb Weston Alexia brand products will use corn and potato starch in their packaging beginning this month. The ...

The current outside temperature is favorable for storage.

Proper cutting is a chief component of any produce processor. Depending on the product, incoming raw fruits and vegetables often require cutting into different shapes or configurations and it’s an issue ...

Sow, apply drip tape and create an anti-dust cover in one pass

The eleven steam peelers help the business churn out 255 tons of potatoes every hour

The hybrid potato breeding company Solynta will work on hybrid breeding of starch potato varieties together with Averis, a subsidiary of Royal Avebe. "After the success of hybrid breeding in the ...

The Tedesco family’s roots may be in farming, but they continue to blossom as processors of fresh-cut produce and related products. In 2008, the family sold Missa Bay, the Swedesboro, ...

The industry collaborative working on updating food safety guidance specific to cantaloupe is holding weekly conference calls instead of trying to meet regionally. They’ve also launched a new website where the ...