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Using these fumigants to control soil-borne diseases had positive effects on the crop beyond disease control. Total and marketable yield and tuber set were higher in plots treated with either fumigant than ...

Herbicides are an important weed management tool for agriculture. The use of herbicides in multiple crops makes it necessary to track what has been applied to crops in rotation with potatoes to ...

The synergy creating the farm’s well-being results from a process of discovery beginning 30 years ago, with Rockey’s uncle.

Abstract Potato wart disease is considered one of the most important quarantine pests for cultivated potato and is caused by the obligate biotrophic chytrid fungus Synchytrium endobioticum. This review integrates observations from early potato ...

Flexible packaging sustainability is a hot agenda topic, and with rapidly advancing technology the options are starting to grow. That said, there is still a sustainability collision point of want vs. reality ...

Chaplin, Sask., farmer Ron Gleim developed the X-Steam-inator, a pull-type steam machine that douses weeds with a maximum stream of 150 degrees Celsius (C) steam under 50 pounds per sq. inch (psi) ...

The United States Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the winners of the Next Gen Fertilizer Innovations Challenge, the second of a two-part, joint USDA-EPA Partnership and ...

For eight years now, Idaho Hydro Tech’s developed air scrubber, known also as the Humigator, cleans and humidifies the air in various potato storages around the world. This air scrubber both disinfects ...

75% of the potato crop is grown for industrial processing and the Danes produce per capita more starch than any other nation.OCCURRENCE OF STARCHStarch constitutes the nutritive reserves of many plants. During ...

Two U.S. scientists have won a 1 million euro ($1.18 million) prize for creating a ‘food generator’ concept that turns plastics into protein, reports Georgina Jadikovskaall in this article published by Zenger News. The 2021 Future ...

Both chemical fertilizers and cover crops can help build the nitrogen content in soil. But cover crops come with many other benefits, like improving soil structure and boosting beneficial microbes. Researchers at Cornell University ...

growers to recognize the potential food safety risks associated with the rapidly expanding use of biostimulants and biofertilizers in crop management.

Yes, that’s phosphite, not phosphate. While it’s chemically similar to the widely used and essential phosphate — the ‘P’ in the NPK fertilizer mnemonic — phosphite (PO3) is a ‘reduced form’ of ...

Scientists hope to use a type of virus called a bacteriophage to infect bacteria that causes blackleg in potato plants, said Michele Konschuh, a research associate in the University of Lethbridge’s biological ...

Soil pH affects many aspects of crop production, especially nutrient availability. Most of our main field crops like a neutral soil pH from 6-7. Soils with a pH higher than 7.5 are ...

“A better understanding of soil health will lead to ways of producing more potatoes”

fumigation with chloropicrin is reported to actually increase the population of the fungus Trichoderma spp.

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Plants can absorb three different types of nitrogen: nitrate, ammonium and amine

verticillium wilt is a serious disease that diminishes quality and causes significant yield loss by reducing tuber size.

Stabilizing nitrogen can help make fertilizing more efficient.

People have puzzled for years why pathogen Phytophthora infestens causes the devastating late blight disease, source of the Irish Potato famine, on potatoes, but has no effect at all on plants like apple or ...

 Micronutrients tend to fall by the wayside, but their importance should not be overlooked. A comprehensive nutrition plan is paramount. To find out more about what this means for growers, we talked ...

The storage season offers a plethora of potential challenges for potato growers. These challenges can include shrink, sprouting, bruising and rot. Although the doors may be closed on the storage, these concerns ...

Above and Beyond Award The Above and Beyond Award is for an individual recognised for making an ‘above and beyond’ contribution to the British potato industry. The recipient is Andrew Francis from Elveden Farms, ...