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Allan Equipment has taken a new spin on the potato harvester by making an electric model. When Trent Cousins and Daniel van Schalkwyk bought Allan Equipment in 2013, they knew they needed ...

One gold medal - 16 silver medals -164 registrations The DLG (German Agricultural Society), organiser of Agritechnica, today announced the winners of the Agritechnica Innovation Awards. With 164 qualifying submissions, the leading ...

By Michaela Paukner posted on October 28, 2021 Supply chain shortages have some dealers digging out decades-old precision equipment to help their customers get crops off the fields. An industry-wide shortage of the GPS ...

The Prince Edward Island Potato Board is shocked by the decision by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) to suspend the certification of exports of all potatoes from Prince Edward Island to the ...

The Canadian Potato Council runs a program with groups across the country to test potato varieties locally. Potato growers in Canada are always interested in and wanting to try out new varieties ...

Our Market is a consumer-driven market concept that has come over from France. In the Netherlands, the initiative will soon start with table potatoes in 2 kilo bags in 320 Coop stores. The first ...

A recent announcement from the National Potato Council (NPC) shows that this organization alongside 13 other US potato associations sent a letter to USDA Secretary, Tom Vilsack, asking for the US government’s ...

This article appears in Potato Grower’s 2021 Idaho Annual issue. Conn Crapo is Potato Grower’s 2021 Idaho Seed Grower of the Year Conn Crapo of Skyline Farms Seed Grower of the Year.  Idaho Seed ...

Today, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) announced measures to prevent the spread of potato wart from Prince Edward Island (PEI). Potato wart, a fungus that has been present in some continents for over ...

Canadian Food Inspection Agency recently shut down border to P.E.I. fresh potatoes exports Two P.E.I. potato producers say measures taken before the goods are shipped anywhere make it almost impossible for potato wart ...

University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) scientist Johan Johan Desaeger believes an integrated strategy is the best long-term approach for producers trying to manage nematodes. Growers are more ...

Wet weather and rising fertiliser prices are forcing farmers to rethink their potato plantings, with tonnages expected to be down significantly in the upcoming season.  Months of wet weather has made the ground in ...

Having the vantage point of 40 plus years to look out over the potato industry, one could expect many changes. Some were not even predictable.

Businesses and residents in Kensington, P.E.I., are already starting to feel the effects of the U.S. border being closed to fresh Island potatoes. Kensington, P.E.I., located in the heart of a big ...

During the event, one farmer asked: “Can a soil test help determine the need for a fungicide application, and does healthy soil correlate with less need for fungicide?” Ken Ferrie, Farm Journal ...

When it comes to reporting about potato virus Y (PVY), it’s a good news, bad news kind of story.

Due to potato stocks depleting rapidly, the retail price of spuds rose sharply by 39%. Each kilo was sold for USD0.25 to USD0.32 in Dhaka markets these days, whereas it was USD0.18 ...

The results on the main BASF trial field with Allstar confirm the positive results of previous seasons. But the fungicide's benefits go beyond fighting rhizoctonia. “Actually, the results were better than in previous ...

Studies in three Africa countries validate the value of seed system tools  Cassava trader in Uganda Seed systems are essential for getting new crop varieties to farmers and, in the case of banana, cassava, potato, sweetpotato ...

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) confirmed recently that the US border is now closed to Prince Edward Island (PEI) seed potatoes after potato wart was again found in two PEI fields, ...

The potato breeding world is taking in the whole picture when it comes to diploids.  The words diploids and true potato seeds have been popping up a lot in the potato research ...

Scientists have said that there is a need for effective ways to cope with a deadly disease dubbed “Potato Bacterial Wilt (PBW) Disease” that continues to affect Irish Potato farmers. According to the researcher, ...

It was supposed to be for one year only when the Prince Edward Island provincial government placed a moratorium on high capacity wells for irrigation in 2001. Instead, it lasted for two ...

Chia potato - organic farming

Soiltech Wireless has a soil moisture sensor which is cheaper than competitors and can do more than just monitor water. Ehsan Soltan may not have an ag background, but he did work ...