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Brexit could lead to a significant shortage of potatoes for Irish consumers by 2023, experts have warned. It makes sense for potato growers to contact seed producers now to organise fresh seed ...

In the Ulyanovsk region, it is planned to “develop a certain variety” together with Belarusian breeders. According to a REGNUM correspondent, Mikhail Semenkin, Acting Minister of Agro-Industrial Complex and Rural Development of ...

Sean Ryan, IFA’s National Potato Chairman, recently described the EUR3 million seed potato plan as a “positive first step.” IFA met with the Minister for Agriculture, Food, and the Marine previously this ...

In Yakutia, in 2022, the sown area for potatoes is 6586 hectares. The largest area is allocated in Yakutsk - 1228 hectares, and Olekminsky is the leader among the districts, where the ...

For other agricultural producers, the rate has been reduced from 6 to 3%. The day before, the JAO finally adopted a bill to reduce the tax for agricultural producers of the JAO, ...

A new fungicide that specifically targets late blight, a detrimental pathogen frequently compromising potato development all over the world, has been launched recently by Corteva Agriscience for the South African spud farmers. ...

Teagasc, The Agriculture and Food Development Authority of the Republic of Ireland, has urged potato growers to contact seed producers now to organise fresh seed for the 2023 season, as the Brexit impasse shows ...

For a long time, potatoes have been known as the most valuable human food product. In addition, it is one of the productive field crops grown for technical and fodder purposes. “To ...

United Potato Growers of Canada has hired a new General Manager, Victoria Stamper, of Mascouche, Quebec, a community just north of Montreal. Victoria will join United in this senior role, effective Monday, ...

Rising costs prompt debate GROWERS in the EU are debating whether to continue growing potatoes, or whether to replace the crop with maize or sunflowers because of rising costs, according to a ...

The large fire at a potato processing plant in Maine is expected to have ripple effects across Maine’s agriculture industry. As Ross Ketschke reports for WMTW, the Penobscot McCrum plant in Belfast processed Maine-grown spuds ...

Sustainable agriculture scheme seeks participants BAYER Crop Science is looking for "forward-thinking" UK potato growers to participate in a bioinsecticide trial. The trial is part of the Bayer Forward Farmers initiative which ...

Evidence suggests that wireworm damage in potatoes has been getting more severe and widespread and, in some cases, has led to British growers losing £100,000s in revenue. As Adam Clarke reports for Farmers Weekly, this ...

A weather-based decision support system that originated 15 years ago in the tree fruit orchards of Washington state has branched into the region’s potato fields. The Pacific Northwest Potato Decision Aid System (DAS) collects ...

The Manitoba provincial government is proposing a major revamping of the business model for potatoes and root crops. As the Manitoba Co-operator staff reports in this news story, a press release issued Mar. 3, ...

Around Uetze and Burgdorf towns in Germany, the first early potatoes are now seeded in the still cold sandy soil, due to the spring-like weather during the weekend that has drawn farmers ...

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Potato pink eye is a disorder that often starts with pink, water-soaked areas around the eyes of the tuber — that’s why it’s called “pink eye,” writes Carrie Huffman Wohleb in this article, first ...

Farmers in the central county of Nyandarua, which produces 32% of potatoes consumed in Kenya, recently declared to Xinhua that they have benefited from China-built infrastructure projects, including the Mombasa-Nairobi Standard Gauge ...

Potato pink eye is a disorder that often starts with pink, water-soaked areas around the eyes of the tuber — that’s why it’s called “pink eye.”

Three Scottish National Party (SNP) MPs have written to the UK Government and the EU Vice-President urging both sides to remove Brexit-induced barriers regarding the export of Scottish seed potatoes to the European Union. Richard Thomson MP (Gordon), Alyn Smith MP ...

AUSVEG, and its State Member AUSVEG VIC, are monitoring the situation on-the-ground in Ballarat following reports that recent storms and wet weather have impacted much of the region’s potato crop. The region ...

Direct import of Dutch seed potatoes by arable farmers in England and Wales is possible. This is the conclusion of the Dutch Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA) after a request from ...

The new Irish potato variety ‘Irish Gold’ is rapidly gaining the attention of UK growers. The variety supplied exclusively to UK-based O’Kane Foods for the United Kingdom market was bred by famous ...

Organised by Scotland’s Rural College, the 23nd annual conference of the SAC Association of Potato Producers (SACAPP) will take place on Wednesday January 26, 2022. The conference will be virtual only due to ...