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Fewer potatoes produced in 2021 THE total area of potatoes in Belgium decreased by 7,418 hectares in 2021, according to the Belgian statistical office Statbel. The organisation reports a decline of 7,418 ...

Trust Alliance New Zealand (TANZ) will showcase a new digital tool at the Primary Industries New Zealand conference on 6/7 July in Auckland, which is aimed at helping food and fibre exporters keep up with ...

Growers urged to attend meetings to shape future of sector A GROUP of nine seed potato growers from across Scotland, along with technical back-up, are putting together a new organisation to support ...

In 2021, the GRIMME Group based in Damme in Germany built upon the good year of 2020, despite the Corona pandemic, the shortage of skilled workers and the impact of Brexit. The ...

Delegates at this World Potato Congress in Dublin should commit to expanding support to under-serviced countries. Consumed by more than a billion people worldwide, including many of the world’s poorest, potato has long been ...

Europatat, the European Potato Trade Association, has celebrated today in Dublin (Ireland) its first physical GeneralAssembly meeting since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. Europatat’s members have elected a new Board tolead ...

Manitoba, Canada Producer organisation Peak of the Market Ltd. is announcing a new direction for the future. With the recent changes in legislation, Peak of the Market has been re-established as a ...

Free event has extensive programme of talks and workshops A NINE-part talks programme titled “Save our Soil”, presented by biophilic design expert Oliver Heath and former Sunday Times journalist Sam Peters, will ...

Growers, suppliers and more can benefit from BASiS and NRoSO points LAMMA 2022 which takes at NEC Birmingham on May 4th and 5th, will offer those operating in the potato supply industry ...

Webinars on integrated pest management FUNDED by Farming The Future, a group of organisations have developed a series of webinars for growers on harnessing fungi, boosting beneficial insects and using cover and ...

AHDB launches horticulture and potatoes website for growers FOLLOWING the wind-down of AHDB Horticulture and Potatoes in the UK, the organisation has launched a website specifically for those sectors to ensure previous ...

A recyclable "drip tape" irrigation system is being put to the test by Norfolk potato growers who are seeking new solutions to water resource pressures.

A meeting of Scottish seed potato growers in Forfar the past week has agreed to set up a co-op to represent the sector. As John Sleigh reports for The Scottish Farmer, the new body, which ...

Growers urged not to overlook virus risk while rising to demand challenges FLOODING in key European production areas, together with high wastage levels at harvest, have heightened the demand for British-grown potatoes ...

Supply and demand may actually become an issue through March and April, which may drive further price rises.

All inputs have shown rising prices in the last months, going from energy to fertilizers, plant protection products and construction prices but also machines and spare parts, the North-Western European Potato Growers ...

By Ailsa Robertson, Sustainability and Extension Manager Image: Ministry for Environment The buildup of greenhouse gases (GHGs) in the Earth’s atmosphere as a result of human activities is causing the Earth’s climate ...

EUROPEAN Potato Trade Association, Europatat, is calling on EU and UK policy makers to break the deadlock and reach an agreement on the resumption in the bilateral trade of seed potatoes.  The ...

A NEW practical field, farm and lab guide for monitoring soil carbon has been launched to answer key questions for robust on-farm field monitoring of soil carbon and associated indicators of soil ...

The AHDB Petitioners – vegetable, flower and potato growers in the UK who voted to abolish a statutory levy on horticulture and potato production – say that recent comments by the Growers ...

Inagro is setting up two mobile washes for spraying equipment in the last weeks of the year.  Farmers can clean their sprayers there and the residues are also processed free of charge. The ...

A Sinn Féin MEP has questioned the European Commission, members of which attended a sitting of the European Parliament Agricultural Committee last evening (November 30), on what can be done about spiralling ...

The statue pays tribute to the Belgian fries culture and heralds the Week of the Fries

Farm Carbon Toolkit is delighted to announce a new collaboration with Mercian Ltd, the UK’s largest supplier of crisping potatoes. Farm Carbon Toolkit is using its years of experience in carbon footprinting ...

The ground-breaking organisation first set up by Scottish seed potato growers will celebrate its 50th anniversary this weekend.