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Lamb Weston Holdings announced in a press release issued today that it has entered into an agreement to purchase the remaining equity interests in its European joint venture with Meijer Frozen Foods B.V. for ...

Life stages: eggs, larvae, pupae, adult moths.The European corn borer is a sporadic pest of potatoes, usually attacking the crop in cool seasons when corn development is delayed. Female moths lay egg ...

Heavy storms (25 to 60mm) have caused some hope in France, Germany, Belgium, and up through Eastern/Central Holland, but agronomists are now waiting to see how the potato crops react. France is ...

With Europe suffering through an extreme drought worsened by climate change that has dried up rivers and left millions sweltering in triple-digit heat this summer, farmers across the continent are sounding warnings ...

New awards scheme will correspond with SIMA FOR its 2022 edition, SIMA, the international exhibition of solutions and technologies for high-performance and sustainable agriculture, is launching the SIMA Farming Awards in partnership ...

Mike Storey made honorary EAPR member DR Mike Storey has been recognised for his outstanding contribution to research and innovation in the potato industry with an honorary membership of the European Association ...

The European Association for Potato Research (EAPR) Council has awarded two honorary memberships to celebrate people with outstanding achievements in potato research and significant contributions to the association. Two new honorary members ...

As said by market players, preliminary figures suggest that the area wedded to potato production in Europe will rise marginally, if at all, for the upcoming 2022/23 period. Massive gains in various ...

Over the last two weeks, most of Northern Europe has received 10 to 40 mm of rain. Buyers are much more relaxed now that there is less concern about early potato crop development. Factory ...

The Irish Farmers’ Association experts recently wrote in their regular report that across Europe, the potato processing factories worked “like never before” in May, and growers with excess to contract still left ...

Europatat calls on the European Parliament for an urgent solution inrestoring normal EU-GB trade in seed potatoes Today the European Parliament’s Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development held an “Exchange ofviews on ...

The European Potato Processors’ Association (EUPPA) released a special report highlighting progress made in recent years by the sector across key areas of environmental sustainability and corporate social responsibility.The European Potato processors ...

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 ...

Coming off of a hard growing season and with increasing production costs, European potato acreage may fall in 2022. It’s been a challenging few years for potato growers in Europe. Between the ...

Across Europe, fresh market prices are firm with some good demand reported in the cooler weather but the export movement is still slow to improve, although there is a steady movement from ...

POTATO professionals from all over Europe are expected to descent on PotatoEurope, the outdoor trade fair for potato cultivation and machinery, on September 7th and 8th. This year's event will take place ...

The latest report coming from the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) shows that across Europe increased input costs being faced by spud growers are starting to influence trade and stronger resistance to lower ...

INTERPOM is fast approaching – we are now on the home stretch! After a whole year of postponement, INTERPOM will finally be held on Sunday 28, Monday 29 and Tuesday 30 November ...

The Irish Farmers Association (IFA) reports that markets and consumption in Ireland remain buoyant as consumers are back to work and school. Colder weather has also stabilised retail sales. Processing trade remains ‘stable and ...

The British ban on seed potatoes from the European Union is detrimental to the trade and cultivation in both Europe and the United Kingdom, writes David Stevenson in a news story for Talk Finance. A solution ...

On account of the 2021 adverse growing conditions, across Europe, the first harvester liftings of maincrop indicate that yields are only going to be average at best, and wastage levels are likely ...

On 7 and 8 September 2022 at Rittergut Bockerode estate near Hanover, Germany - online registration for exhibitors started (DLG). The next key venue for potato professionals in Europe is PotatoEurope, the outdoor ...

The Irish Farmers Association (IFA) reports that retail and consumer demand have improved in the country this week as colder weather has returned and families are back into routines, following the holiday period. The ...

North Western Europe will have had one of its most humid summers in the last decades – in some areas in Belgium and Western Germany, rainfall at mid-July was an absolute historic ...

With 21.2% of the European Union (EU-27) total potato harvest in 2020 (or 11.7m tonnes), Germany is now officially the largest producer, followed by Poland (16.4%), France (15.7%), the Netherlands (12.7%) and ...