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Kanaan and Elea conducted a test project using an Elea PEF Advantage system to assess the impact of PEF on product yield and quality. Following successful testing, a line upgrade was recently ...

Varieties in the market that reduce the risks in cultivation and achieve a good return. This is the most important objective at potato trading house Den Hartigh BV from Emmeloord. With more than twenty ...

Instead of spending hours trudging through wheat, barley and potato fields hoping he gets a good idea of what overall field health looks like, drone eye takes a bird’s eye view, saving ...

Demand for potatoes is high, while supply remains low. That could be good news for Florida producers hoping to take advantage this spring, said John Toaspern, chief marketing officer for Potatoes USA. “(Florida’s) ...

Two thousand tonnes of Scottish seed potatoes are being exported to Russia by the food and drinks giant Pepsi, with the official approval of the Scottish government.

During certain stretches of the growing season, potato growers must monitor the nitrogen status of their crop on a regular basis to fertilize in the most efficient and sustainable way possible.

Synergizing Pulsed Electric Field (PEF) and Radiant Energy Vacuum Dehydration (REV™) for faster, higher quality, low energy drying. Elea and EnWave invite you to Germany for 2 days of insights and demonstrations ...

Growers invited to join trialling UK GROWERS are being invited to take part in a wire worm survey and trial by not-for-profit membership network Innovative Farmers. Are you a field scale potato grower ...

Root lesion nematode is a tiny pest, about one millimetre in length. But it has an outsized ability to damage potatoes in Canada. The reason? It’s part of a complex of pests ...

The synergy creating the farm’s well-being results from a process of discovery beginning 30 years ago, with Rockey’s uncle.

supermarket chain only imports potatoes from October or November to April or May, "and once we have exhausted the volume of Spanish production."

I had one field that had a pH of 8.5 and was high in calcium and magnesium, and even after one year of using SulphGro, our pH dropped to 7.4 and our ...

There’s a growing global potato shortage — a real problem for a planet addicted to french fries and chips. A McDonald's in Tokyo on Dec. 29. In Japan, McDonald’s locations stopped offering ...

(NOTE: This is the first of a two-part series on the Vision 2026 program to rethink the seed potato certification system.) A crop consultant’s persistence to help seed potato growers and belief ...

Growing potatoes with excellent taste characteristics was the starting point for Jeroen Klompe’s eight-year journey to improve his soil, and his management of it within a potato rotation. Farming 368ha of arable ...

If potato producers could snap their fingers to solve the most costly and frustrating production challenge they face, almost all would snap away early die complex. Widely considered the most important yield-limiting ...

We are very pleased to have welcomed you again here at Elea for our 3rd PEF Advantage Day. This year the event focused on product and process optimisation with PEF in the vegetable and potato sectors. ...

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 ...

The economy is raising more than just prices as farmers question how to manage fertilizer investments in 2022. For Helena Agri-Enterprises, LLC, the answer lies beneath the surface. Soil health is one ...

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 ...

Pulsemaster agreed to the sale of two 100 kW Pulsed Electric Field systems to Agristo, a major producer of French fries and potato specialties. Agristo has purchased two more Pulsemaster PEF-systems that ...

The ideal plant for cultivation in space would provide as many nutrients from as few inputs as possible. Here, we discuss how biotechnology could be used to produce a potato cultivar suitable ...

Colorado’s San Luis Valley produces more fresh potatoes than anywhere in the country outside of Idaho, and farmers there are welcoming a ruling by the Supreme Court of Mexico that clears the ...

Manipulating RNA can allow plants to yield dramatically more crops, as well as increasing drought tolerance, according to research published in Nature Biotechnology. A group of scientists from the University of Chicago, ...