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The Andean Initiative Bayer and CIP is the meeting point of the efforts, a program that seeks to transform small-scale agriculture to promote the sustainable use of agrobiodiversity, effective climate action and ...

View original article Phosphorus in soil is an essential macro-element, required for plant nutrition. It participates in metabolic processes such as photosynthesis, energy transfer and synthesis and breakdown of carbohydrates. Phosphorus is ...

 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 ...

Potato tubers are the result of the plant genetics and the environmental conditions in which they are grown. Potato varieties are selected carefully for tubers that have desirable appearance to maximize sales ...

As the holiday season gets closer, demand for Wisconsin potatoes is stronger than last year. “We have a good supply of Wisconsin red and gold potatoes from this year’s crop along with ...

Not all phosphorus-based fertilizers are created equal. For this reason, achieving adequate and well-timed phosphorus nutrition in potatoes can prove complicated and – if managed incorrectly – unnecessarily costly. Consider this: if ...

The focus of the Bio Minerals Technologies potato program is to stabilize phosphate in the root zone, providing a constant supply of energy and nutrition for root growth and tuber set. When ...

Because the catering industry hardly sells french fries anymore, the demand is low and the prices are in the basement. Part of the harvest now goes to biogas plants and the farmers receive ...

Natalie Kaiser’s love for plants started as a child growing up around her parents’ organic greenhouse business in upstate New York. She did her undergrad studies in plant science with dreams of ...

Weed management, soil health, and the nutritional quality of foods grown organically continue to be high priority research topics for organic producers. Inna Popova, University of Idaho The Organic Farming Research Foundation ...

Subsurface Drip Irrigation (SDI) is the most advanced irrigation method. It supplies water and fertilizers directly to the plant’s root zone, accurately and in keeping with the plant needs. Subsurface Drip Irrigation ...

Remove the Guesswork My Father-in-Law, let’s call him Joe - because that’s his name - is a great sports fan. He enjoys all kinds of sports, but he is especially a student ...

Drs. Paul Bethke and Shelley Jansky are researchers in the Agricultural Research Service's Vegetable Crop Research Unit located in Madison, WI. Their research encapsulates efforts to improve the breeding, cultivation, and marketability ...

Cover crops are crops which are not sown to be harvested but rather to be incorporated in the soil at some point in their growth. In potato farming, cover crops can be ...

Agronomic improvement comes first, followed by nutritional enhancement and biotic stress resistance as traits of field trials. Regarding the biotech crops, potato is the most tested crop with a fifth of the ...

Potatoes with purple tubers have been available on the domestic market for some time . After getting acquainted with the place of their origin, indicated on the shop label, we learn that these are not ...

With more Americans eating their meals at home these days, many are interested in learning about how their food is produced, processed and distributed.That requires openness on the part of farmers, according ...

he potato variety Gardena has been called the potato of the future. It is the result of the previously adopted Polish breeding strategy. It was selected on the basis of the identification of DNA ...

Five years ago, when United Nations member states adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the resolution made it clear that tackling the current global challenges would require collaborative partnerships. The 17 Sustainable ...

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” ...

Soil alarmists such as Barbara Baarsma, professor of economics and director of Rabobank Amsterdam, argue that dutch soil is doing badly. The Environment Council also takes this view. Anyone who digs a ...

Potatoes get a bad rap.  Perhaps due to the humble root vegetable’s association with French fries or as a gravy-swamped side, many people think of it as unhealthy. But potatoes are actually ...

The Belgian FAM makes cutting machines for all the major fruit, fish, vegetable, potato, cheese and meat-related companies in the world. Nine-two percent is exports. 'Our machines are copied to the sea ...

FAO Regional Conference breaks attendance record with more than 540 participants and close to 30,000 following it through digital platforms 21 October 2020, Managua/Santiago/Rome - The 36th Session of FAO's Regional Conference for ...

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 ...