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Lamb Weston / Meijer is one of the most recognized companies in the global potato industry, with a rich and starched history. The company’s mission - Wellbeing through Potatoes - and their customer-focused modus ...

The first annual figures of the Syngenta Group, which was established in June 2020, come to a turnover of 23.1 billion US dollars

For more than 100 years, the family-owned Bonduelle company has been devoted to one single and unchanging passion: Vegetables. Today, the French-based company is one of the major food processors worldwide and ...

Phytopthora resistant varieties of trading house Agrico has been growing steadily since the start in 2016.

Agrico, supplier of certified seed potatoes, built an online news platform

With Flight to Vitality, the seed potato sector is on the eve of a breakthrough

many wild potato species boast formidable defenses against diseases like late blight

working with his two sons to transfer the family’s potato farm

Franz Grimme, honorary citizen of Damme (Germany) and owner of the GRIMME Group, turns 75 on 3 March this year. In 1970, at the age of 24, he joined GRIMME after successfully ...

start-up of supports for small potato growers in Punjab, Pakistan

The result was the outcome of the wide-ranging impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the business groups in an exceptional year. Lockdowns exerted pressure on Aviko’s turnover in the foodservice channel, whereas ...

As a result, sprout inhibitors for good safe storage are in the spotlight again.

With genetic markers, it becomes easier for breeders to develop resilient, high-yielding potatoes with the key traits—taste, texture, cooking time—sought by local consumers.

Thus, there is no replacement to directly speaking to growers to understand what they think. Only then can we can tailor technologies we develop to meet their needs and thus create the ...

high-precision application systems for crop protection products.

More drought and heat will require more and more irrigation in the future. In Germany, more than 2 million hectares of arable land could also be irrigated, with around 12 million hectares of ...

Dutch agricultural companies have good access to government financing. Only 2 to 7 percent of the funding demand is not met, which is much lower than in most other European countries. Minister Schouten writes ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture released a report, The Importance of Highways to U.S. Agriculture, prepared in close partnership with the Department of Transportation.  Agricultural producers are the single largest user of freight ...

Even though resistance to Pectobacterium species is limited within cultivated potato varieties, it is known that a wild potato relative (S. chacoense) is resistant to them; however, until recently, the underlying mechanisms of this ...

Hazel Technologies Inc., Chicago, has a new product, Hazel Root, that’s designed to protect the quality of potatoes in storage by preventing sprouting. Like other Hazel Technologies’ products that prolong the shelf life of ...

McCrum grows trust In July 2020 McCrum (Belfast, Maine, US) started up their new Coated French Fries production line with a capacity of 8 tons finished product an hour. The company, founded in ...

Next year HZPC expects to own the first prototype of a hybrid potato variety. These potatoes will be sown instead of planted, and that offers perspective for the food security of areas ...

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 ...

Much has been said and written about it in recent years, but experts expect that the ancient rain reel will disappear from the landscape in the coming years. Reason? The emergence of site-specific irrigation ...

In financial year 2019/2020 Dutch Potato Starch Producer Royal Avebe achieved a performance price of 96.15 euros. This is a fraction below the record result - 96.63 euros - of the previous ...