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With a number of dry summers in a row Alternaria has become an annual phenomenon in potatoes. Cro Advisor Sander Uwland of Bayer expects the disease to be a keeper, even if ...

Farmers who want to keep marestail and other winter annuals like henbit and purple dead nettle from overrunning their 2021 fields can get a head start this fall.  “Marestail is much easier ...

Three new farm Acts were recently introduced in the country. The most important of these, the Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020 is aimed at putting an end ...

The expression “genetically modified organisms” (“GMOs”) is not only void of scientific value, but has negative effects on agricultural progress and food policy. The history of crop domestication offers many examples of ...

The Bender clan are potato people. From raising tubers especially for potato chips to the everyday table spud, they are experts in growing America’s most popular root vegetable. Given that, it should ...

It’s possible to project what customers are likely to be in business in 20 years. That’s the result of extensive research done by strategic intelligence firm Aimpoint Research.  “If you can answer ...

Written By: Bob Hesse, October 2012, Edited: Chip Hesse, September 2019  So last time we talked about the first steps, know the risk of placing potatoes into storage, harvesting a dry crop, ...

The potatoes have received all the attention throughout the season. The result: you harvest the best quality and the highest yield. But what happens in the storage shed for the first few ...

Government, in conjunction with Kutsaga Research Station has embarked on a potato seed multiplication programme from mini-tuber to commercial seed potato. This programme will decapitate a critical shortage of the seed potato ...

CIPC has been banned in the European Union since 1 January 2020. The expiry date for, among other things, the storage of potatoes with CIPC, among others, has been set for 8 ...

Castilla y León is the community with the largest area dedicated to this crop, more than 19,000 hectares, and with the highest production, 930,000 tons in the last campaign The Director of ...

The use of drones in Indian agriculture has been an issue rife with debate, and the past decade has seen an equal measure of views emanating from endorsing and censuring camps. The ...

The potato harvest is in full swing in Carinthia. After two years of failures due to beetle plague and drought, the camps are well filled again. Instead of imported apples from Israel ...

Robert Carl Stokes, the kingpin of crop insurance fraud, helmed a historic cabal that took advantage of graft and corruption at all levels of agriculture to the tune of at least $100 ...

Colorado’s San Luis Valley, the state’s foremost potato production area, is seeing the release of a new spud variety, the Rocky Mountain Russet, this year. According to Colorado Potato Administrative Committee Executive ...

Eagle Eye Produce in Idaho Falls, ID, has just introduced a new style retail bag for Idaho red, yellow and russet potatoes in its Harvest Select line. Called combo bags, they are ...

It has been on the wild side, but 2020 has started out well for P.E.I. farmers. Statistics Canada's farm cash receipts report, released Friday, shows sales of $203.6 million for the first ...

Dear colleagues! We would like to inform you about new opportunities for the purchase of mineral fertilizers in organized (exchange) trading. Mineral fertilizers are traded on the St. Petersburg International Commodity Exchange ...

As a result of the coronacrisis, Wilhelm Weuthen GmbH, the largest potato trading house in Europe, is not organising a Weuthen Kartoffeltag for the first time in 31 years. However, Ferdi Buffen ...

Potato growers have sufficient alternatives to Chlorine IPC for long-term storage, according to storage research by Wageningen University & Research (WUR) Open Crops. The results of MD spraying in the field, supplemented with ...

Arable farmers Henk and Rick Meijer use MH in their potatoes as standard for sprouting inhibition and controlling storage. For long-term storage, they often extend the dormancy by 1.4Sight. Even without Chlorine IPC there ...

Nutrient uptake curves Nutrients uptake is at its greatest during tuber bulking up (intensive volume increase process). The amount of nutrients removed by a potato crop is closely related to yield. Usually, ...

Elea is introducing a new compact, all-in-one PEF solution for smaller production lines On 14th May, 2020, Elea ran a successful online PEFinar on PEF for snacks and dried fruits. The online ...

Hybrid seeds are key to improving the productivity of smallholder farmers and necessary to meet projected food demands by 2050.Jan 13, 2020 Solynta today announced the grant of U.S. Patent Serial No. ...

World Potato Congress President, Romain Cools is very pleased to introduce Dr. André Devaux as the newest WPC International Advisor. Romain Cools: “André is a man who has illustrated he can act ...