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Small, organic farms need organic seed potatoes, and a small, organic farm in Wisconsin has found its niche in supplying those farms.

The Irrigation Association (IA) announces that July 2021 has once again been designated as Smart Irrigation Month

Many things can go wrong when growing a potato crop. Some problems are caused by biotic factors — living organisms like pathogens, weeds, insects, and nematodes. Other problems are abiotic — resulting ...

otato growers in Palampur, Nagrota Bagwan and Kangra are finding no buyers this year.

In an interview with Paweł Kaczmarek, a board member of Top Farms Wielkopolska, we talked about important aspects of the cultivation of french potato and chips and how important soil is in ...

“The frost from a month ago has had a huge impact on the volumes of early potatoes,”

Farmers could be offered exit payments of up to £100,000 to help them leave the industry as part of a government drive to attract "new talent" onto the fields.

As a historic drought ravages farms and ranches throughout the Klamath Basin on the California-Oregon border there are visible signs of the calamity everywhere. Fields lie fallow. There are dust storms in ...

A group of researchers in Canada are using precision agriculture to map field management zones.

A good ridge provides a lot of space for tubers produced in the tuberization process, which is why the most popular ridge spacing in Poland is 75 cm

This is the philosophy of the seed house HZPC , a Dutch multinational leader in the production of seed potatoes.

Frost & Sullivan has awarded LINKFRESH, Inc. with the 2016 North American Frost & Sullivan Award for Technology Leadership. The company’s food supply chain software can be customized and enhanced to meet the diverse needs of ...

Belgium is already the world’s largest exporter of pre-fried potato products.

In some species and in some crops, pest monitoring requires the use of additional tools. In many cases, their purchase is a low cost that pays for itself quickly. Every professional user  of plant ...

Potato growing in Estonia has seen a three-fold decline in the past decade

During April 2021 we experienced cold dry conditions which haven’t been seen in some years. Moving into May much of the country has received, or is about to receive, some much needed ...

Coming back to the Skagit Valley, there are so many problems we can solve here to make people’s lives better,

At a recent meeting of the United Fresh Supply Chain Logistics Council, chairman Kenny Lund asked all in attendance to predict how long it would be before autonomous trucks are accepted in transportation ...

A new University of Illinois-led study identifies obstacles and solutions to improve performance and adoption of irrigation decision support tools at the field scale. Where some fields are equipped with soil moisure ...

For ten years, JSC “Ozyory” has been a member of the Union of the Participants of Potato and Vegetable Market with great pride. Over this time, the company has stead-ily increased its ...

Scientists hope to use a type of virus called a bacteriophage to infect bacteria that causes blackleg in potato plants, said Michele Konschuh, a research associate in the University of Lethbridge’s biological ...

Fields and orchards can be wonderful, magical worlds unto themselves. You just don’t want their residents – or invaders – to end up in your salad or bag of frozen strawberries. Nor do ...

Growing, storing, processing and providing the consumers with the quality vegetable products, promoting the breeding and seed production of potatoes and vegetables sector development, and the volume growth of their processing - ...

KABUL, May 2 (Xinhua) -- Afghanistan harvested 855,395 metric tons of potatoes in all farms across the country in 2020, the country's Ministry of Agriculture Irrigation and Livestock announced on Sunday. "Most ...

Are they broadening their diet and taking a bite out your potato profits? Ground squirrels and voles cause yield losses in crops.