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The FAO Food Price Index (FFPI) averaged 127.4 points in August 2021, up 3.9 points (3.1 percent) from July and 31.5 points (32.9 percent) from the same period last year. The FFPI's rebound in ...

The requirements being made on the productivity, comfort and safety of mobile machines in the off-highway sector are constantly increasing. Assistance systems and partially automated solutions are making it easier for the ...

High heat in the early summer can lead to reduced yield and deformed potatoes on farmers, said Washington State Potato Commission Executive Director Chris Voigt in a Herald telephone interview. A potato ...

Andrei Sinitsyn started the potato business back in the 1990s:

The 'Part-time job at the farmer' campaign aims to make young people enthusiastic about a part-time job at an agricultural company, such as an arable farm. The campaign is an initiative of the ...

As the Magic Valley region in southern Idaho prepares for potentially record-setting heat this week, farmers, potato researchers and dairy scientists are all voicing concerns. The National Weather Service has issued excessive ...

A variety trial in potato was set up in Lennik as part of the Potato Agricultural Center. The aim is to find a worthy alternative to Fontane and Innovator, each of which ...

Azoles are widely used as fungicides in arable farming.

We want to know which conditions ensure the growth of populations of insects, such as bean spider mites, so that we can take preventive actions with the lowest impact on the environment. ...

Cornell-led study shows that global farming productivity is 21% lower than it could have been without climate change

The California Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement (LGMA) released its first audit report since the group was formed in 2007. A total of 368 audits were conducted between July 23 and Dec. 31, 2007, ...

Half of the farmers work part-time. Are they economically successful - or are they in the red?

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — U.S. officials have released a new plan involving methods to deal with a microscopic pest in southeastern Idaho that threatens the state’s billion-dollar industry that supplies a third ...

The outbreak of corona in March 2020 deeply affected many entrepreneurs in the agricultural sector. In this series a look back at the past year with entrepreneurs who were previously in the picture ...

URBANA, Ill. – Scientists are getting closer to finding the genes for maleness in waterhemp and Palmer amaranth, two of the most troublesome agricultural weeds in the U.S. Finding the genes could ...

From the tip of Farewell Spit to the very arse end of Stewart Island, there is one delicacy that unites Te Wai Pounamu: the humble green onion chip. But why? Alice Neville embarks ...

Rolling catch crops can be an alternative to flail. This is cheaper, but greening requirements must be met. We have tips for you. Catch crops are often cut to prevent seeds from ripening or ...

The policy over much of the last century to quickly suppress wildfires no matter where they occur has led to a buildup of fuels in forests. This, coupled with some hot and ...

Farmers with fields potato cultivation in the Upper Palatinate no longer allowed to water potatoes and tomatoes with water from the river. From Luhe-Wildenau to Mariaort, the Naab is contaminated with bacteria of ...

The Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA) has discovered an unknown variant of wart disease on the agricultural plots in the municipality of Stadskanaal that were recently infected with wart ...

The debate about the agricultural sector is narrowing to a discussion about nitrogen and numbers of animals. The cabinet is losing sight of how important the sector is to the Netherlands. 'Nonsense about period ...

Drs. Paul Bethke and Shelley Jansky are researchers in the Agricultural Research Service's Vegetable Crop Research Unit located in Madison, WI. Their research encapsulates efforts to improve the breeding, cultivation, and marketability ...

With a view to the elimination of chlorpropham, Agrifirm has conducted proactive research in recent years into alternative solutions for sprouting inhibition in potatoes. The starting point is an environmentally conscious solution with ...

At the start of the 20th century, German chemists Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch developed a method for taking nitrogen from the air and melding it with hydrogen. It would prove to ...

Some countries use extremely large amounts of nitrogen fertilizer, but still only get a little more yield out of it. This is what researchers with the participation of ETH Zurich report in the ...