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An effective weed management program takes into account the type of weeds present, crop rotation, cultivation, available herbicides, and the competitive ability of the potato crop. Competition from early season weeds will ...

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 ...

Mack Farms is a member of Fresh Solutions Network, which has helped not only to expand the reach of their business, but to share with others in the potato industry the pioneering ...

The revocation of registration granted to the global food giant Pepsico by India’s Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers Rights’ Authority (PPV&FRA) further muddies an already unclear picture for the seed and ...

India proceeded with the revocation of the intellectual protection granted to PepsiCo’s FC5 potato variety, saying that the country’s rules do not allow a patent on seed varieties, in line with an ...

Start the sowing campaign of potato in Spain and one of the doubts recurring each year is: What variety of seed grow?. As we have mentioned on previous occasions, there are a lot of varieties ...

A potato seed multiplication company in Nakuru is providing certified seeds to farmers throughout the year, in an effort to address decline in production of the crop as a result of the ...

Canadian growers harvested a record potato crop in 2021, as production rose 18.2% year over year to 123.1 million hundredweight, on account of increases in both seeded area and yield, according to a report released by Statistics Canada ...

...new trading system for the trade in HZPC certificates will be introduced

Pepsico’s registration of the FL-2027 variety of potatoes, used in Lays potato chips, has been revoked by the Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers Rights’ Authority in India. As Priscilla Jebaraj reports for The Hindu, two ...

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 ...

With all of our retail and food service partners, MountainKing Potatoes tries to take the same approach that Cary used to build his business. By understanding our customers and constantly studying evolving ...

A recent USDA grant will provide USD500,000 for developing potato varieties that are more resistant to changing weather and other conditions that could cause smaller potato crops, defects in the potatoes, or ...

Some potato farms in Aroostook County, Maine have histories dating back to the early 1800s. Daniel Corey’s operation is not one of them, however. Corey started his namesake operation — Daniel J. Corey ...

Your fields may be covered in snow right now, but we all know that a potato grower’s work never truly ends. Like it or not, planting season will be upon us soon, ...

Lamb Weston / Meijer is one of the most recognized companies in the global potato industry, with a rich and starched history. The company’s mission - Wellbeing through Potatoes - and their customer-focused modus ...

After the cultivation of starch potatoes in 2021, the Dutch Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA) has identified wart disease on four agricultural plots in the northeast of the Netherlands. Inspection ...

Along with the paradigm shift in food worldwide, the consumer is also more open to trying different foods, for example, colored potatoes.

Part of the National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS), the U.S. Potato Genebank has for more than six decades collected and maintained a massive collection of potato genetics.

Our Market is a consumer-driven market concept that has come over from France. In the Netherlands, the initiative will soon start with table potatoes in 2 kilo bags in 320 Coop stores. The first ...

This article appears in the December 2021 issue of Potato Grower SouthWind Farms has been around for 21 years, but brothers Robert and Jerry Tominaga and their partner Rod Lake have all been involved in the potato ...

This article appears in Potato Grower’s 2021 Idaho Annual issue. Conn Crapo is Potato Grower’s 2021 Idaho Seed Grower of the Year Conn Crapo of Skyline Farms Seed Grower of the Year.  Idaho Seed ...

According to French researchers, tripling organic farms by 2030 costs less than subsidising pesticides

Idaho University Moscow campus will soon be hosting a new USD5.5m Seed Potato Germplasm Laboratory. This new lab is, in fact, an upgrade to the previous facility that maintains the startup material ...

In their bid to create a cultivation plan for early spuds that will meet the demand, Swisspatat’s production and trade representatives have approved the early potato concept 2022, the Colomba variety being ...