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From the early stages of planting to the final phase of every package and shipping, you will find the Easterday family actively involved in all aspects of delivering you high quality produce ...

The first contours for the 2021 potato season are beginning to emerge. The table potato market is still looking good, at least in terms of volume. The market for chips potatoes looks a lot ...

Last week there was interest on the potato market in june contracts. Their quotations varied from 8.20 euros to 9.10. A signal that the cards have not yet been shuffled. Last week, the potato ...

To avoid high storage costs, Wilhelm Weuthen GmbH advises growers with a lot of free potatoes in the shed to offer them now for alternative processing such as biogas, feed potato or ...

Potato processors will contract approximately 20 percent fewer potatoes for the 2021 harvest than this year. The contract price falls by approximately 10 percent. Remo-Frit, the Belgian market leader in freshly peeled potato products, ...

Pepsico UK has joined forces with British clean-tech firm CCm Technologies to reduce their carbon footprint by turning their potato waste into fertiliser.Using CCm Technologies’ innovative carbon-capture technology, potato peelings leftover from ...

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 ...

Smuggled fruit and vegetable products are displacing the national tomato, potato and onion, which as a consequence suffered a reduction in prices. According to the Agricultural Markets Information Service of the Ministry ...

Farmers with their own shop, stand or vending machine have seen their turnover in consumer sales double this year. This has emerged from a study by research firm Gfk. Consumers also spent 25 percent ...

Tasmania's import risk assessment for potatoes will be updated following concerns raised by growers over an import licence approval. Primary Industries Minister Guy Barnett during budget estimates last week confirmed work on ...

NAPI—the Navajo Agricultural Products Industry—isn’t your typical family farm. For starters, it’s enormous, even by today’s standards of expansion and efficiency: 110,000 acres of cultivated land, with 74,000 of those acres under ...

The Indian government has been undertaking various initiatives towards water conservation and proper utilization. From supporting famed hydraulic civilizations of India, China, Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Sri Lanka, and Pre-Columbian Mexico and Peru ...

The Valladolid company is committed to the “Agria” and “Yellow Lady” varieties to continue offering Spanish and Castilla y León potatoes to consumers With the potato campaign completed in Castilla y León, ...

Labor is a puzzle of increasing difficulty for American farmers. Three growers with significant acreage in Arkansas, Missouri and Tennessee offer perspective on labor challenges. Tennessee’s Darren Grogan On rolling ground in ...

The reports that a number of vaccines are on the way to combat the Covid-19 virus provides some optimism, also with regard to the potato market. After more than nine months of ...

Potatoes weigh much less on household production and consumption, but the mumps crisis reflects the causes of the economic crisis. The pathetic scenes of peasants from the Cundiboyacense plateau wrapped in their ...

At the start of the 20th century, German chemists Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch developed a method for taking nitrogen from the air and melding it with hydrogen. It would prove to ...

The economic impact of Scottish agritourism is to be measured early next year ahead of a potential explosion of opportunities for the sector. As tourism leaders predict unprecedented demand for Scottish farm ...

Every farmer wants to see their crops grow healthily, develop fully, and yield properly in both quantity and quality. To achieve all this, crop plants must have enough of every essential nutrient ...

Quality and traceability, two important requirements of potato fresh packing, are threatened by market disruptions arising from the COVID-19 pandemic. Lockdowns have increased home-cooking and the popularity of fresh potatoes, packers may ...

The severity – and timing – of recent autumn downpours has illustrated the impact of a changing climate on farms and underlined the importance of long-term investment in land drainage, said industry ...

Farm experts are of the view that rising prices of essential commodities coupled with wage deflation and increasing joblessness are pushing poor households to the point of distress despite the government's relief ...

The farmers whose crops were left unharvested were waiting for rain to soften the dirt lumps so they wouldn’t bruise the potatoes, then temperatures dipped into the low double digits and froze ...

With fresh vegetable sales boosted by people cooking more at home during the COVID-19 pandemic, many potato fresh packers are stretched to capacity. Some are even turning away work because they are ...

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” ...