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Smuggled fruit and vegetable products are displacing the national tomato, potato and onion, which as a consequence suffered a reduction in prices. According to the Agricultural Markets Information Service of the Ministry ...

If you talk to a group of potato growers, one issue is almost certain to come up: how to find seed potatoes free of disease. The U.S. potato seed industry can be ...

The extensive lockdown measures lead to production stoppages at potato processors and uncertainties about market developments. The industry is currently not interested in free potatoes. These are increasingly being used as biogas, feed and ...

NAPI—the Navajo Agricultural Products Industry—isn’t your typical family farm. For starters, it’s enormous, even by today’s standards of expansion and efficiency: 110,000 acres of cultivated land, with 74,000 of those acres under ...

Innoquest Inc., a designer and manufacturer of precision meters for the agriculture industry since 1993, has released two improved flow meters with larger capacities than their predecessors, expanding for uses in new ...

The Indian government has been undertaking various initiatives towards water conservation and proper utilization. From supporting famed hydraulic civilizations of India, China, Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Sri Lanka, and Pre-Columbian Mexico and Peru ...

A Norfolk potato grower has urged shoppers to support their local retailers, restaurants and caterers to revive the food trade and help sell the surplus generated by the second lockdown. Tim Briscoe, manager ...

Exclusive patent licensed from University of Idaho.Mustard-derived fumigation of stored food – targeting vegetables and potatoes.Leading agrochemical for sprout suppression – chlorpropham – banned by European Union on Oct. 8, 2020.Appointment of Scientific Advisor ...

Because the catering industry hardly sells french fries anymore, the demand is low and the prices are in the basement. Part of the harvest now goes to biogas plants and the farmers receive ...

Farming. If you live in Sherburne County, Minn., and your last name is Wingard, that’s most likely what you do for a living. Wingards have been farming in the areas’ sandy soils for over ...

Under the scorching sun of the Andes, Nazario Quispe plunges the plow into his potato field. But he is not sure he will be able to harvest them in 2021 after a pandemic ...

KIGALI — Agriculture is embedded in the culture of the people of Rwanda. In fact, about 67 percent of Rwandans are employed in agriculture, with arable land covering over 1.56 million hectares of ...

COVID-19 has changed the way Australians eat and shop for the long term. Continued restrictions mean fewer shopping trips, bigger basket sizes, more local shopping, and a significant shift toward buying groceries ...

The latest in bed planting technology has arrived in Australia, enabling certified potato seed growers to produce a more uniform crop while conserving water and increasing nutrient uptake. In this article, South ...

The reports that a number of vaccines are on the way to combat the Covid-19 virus provides some optimism, also with regard to the potato market. After more than nine months of ...

No potato producer wants to find deep, rough and pitted lesions on the skin of their potatoes. Common scab disease is a widespread issue that can lead to major economic losses, at ...

Although it wasn’t an immediate success, the ‘Russet Burbank’ cultivar now accounts for about 40% of the U.S. potato acreage. It originates from a seed collected from an ‘Early Rose’ potato plant ...

Finally, I’m here, in Québec City, the heart of French Canada. Now, if I can get by on the six words of French I learned from Beauty and the Beast, all will be well. I’m ...

The recent finalisation of a takeover of Thomas Foods International’s potato business and a spike in demand through the coronavirus pandemic has cemented Mitolo Group as the Australia’s largest fresh spud producer. ...

Colorado farmer Brendon Rockey, who grows ware and seed potatoes at 7,600ft, will tell the conference how he has met the challenges of growing crops at high altitude with less than six ...

With friendly weather lots of fertilizer is being applied to farm fields. Our part time help has returned to work on the ‘honey-do’ list. Dad and I have slipped in a couple ...

The markets for fresh potatoes remain price-bearing. Exports enjoy a lively demand from various countries. The demand for free potatoes by the factories is still nil. The markets for fresh potatoes remain price-bearing. Exports enjoy ...

The total harvest of British potatoes this year will be 5.3m tonnes according to estimates – up 2.8% on 2019 but below the five-year average of 5.4m tonnes. This estimate by the ...

 Farmobile LLC, Agriculture’s Independent Data Company™, today announced that The Fertilizer Institute (TFI), the leading voice of the fertilizer industry, is supporting through outreach the advancement of agronomic and machine-collected data for ag ...

Ukraine has started importing cheap potatoes from Poland, where prices have fallen even faster than in Primordial Crain due to the disappearance of the decline in the catering industry. Ukraine had already started ...