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Farmers, fish advocates, tribes and government officials are headed to federal court in California on Wednesday (today) to argue who will get water — and when — in the Klamath Basin. Federal ...

Potato growers supplying McDonald’s are set to benefit from the provision of free agronomy skills training to improve crop performance and quality with the launch of the MacFry Potato Academy.  The Academy ...

Simplot will start the construction of a French fries plant in Mendoza, Argentina, in about a month’s time, following an investment of more than USD100m. The plant will start operations in 2018 ...

Branston is now one of the biggest potato suppliers in the UK. The company, with three well positioned sites, to give easy access to the best potato crops in Lincoln, Ilminster and Perth, supplies fresh and ...

Mechanized agriculture is the process of using agricultural machinery to mechanize work, greatly increasing productivity. In modern times, powered machinery has replaced many jobs formerly carried out by manual labor, or by ...

According to the GAIN report "Poland - Fresh Potatoes and Products. Annual 2015"- published on November 27, 2015 - the 2015 Potato production in Poland dropped 13% compared to last year to ...

Twenty potato growers from all over the Wisconsin converged on Madison last week for their annual “grill the professors” ritual. They came from Eagle River to Spring Green and Coloma to Plover ...

The National Institute of Agricultural Innovation (INIA), of the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation, launched an effective method to combat the “Andean weevil” that attacks potato crops. This disease in the tuber ...

China’s commitment to the potato was very publicly and internationally demonstrated when it hosted the World Potato Congress, July 28-30.  There were more than 900 delegates at the congress, two thirds of ...

Potatoes are the sustainable carbohydrate; it’s a fact. This comes as a result of new research from Cranfield University to compare the total greenhouse gas emissions (GHGE) and water usage for potatoes ...

Contrary to NGO stories of exploited farmers and middlemen running riot, Gujarat’s potato farmers have scripted an entrepreneurial success story by teaming up with multinationals and other buyers of their produce. The ...

The North-Western European Potato Growers (NEPG) has issued an updated estimate of planted area for the 2013 crop (at the start of July). Based on first estimates and survey work the NEPG ...