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WORLD POTATO CONGRESS INC. WEBINAR NOVEMBER 12, 2020 AT 09:00 A.M. EASTERN STANDARD TIME PRESENTING: “ABOVE AND BELOW GROUND: DISEASES THREATENING SUSTAINABLE POTATO PRODUCTION” WITH PROFESSOR JACQUIE VAN DER WAALS The World ...

New trials run by Innovative Farmers Field lab and funded by AHDB in the UK will research the possibility of using brackish water for potato irrigation. Irrigation plays a vital role in potato quality. Growers in areas ...

BOONE, Iowa — Data collected from personal information has been called one of the most valuable commodities in the world. With the advent of precision agriculture and advances in farm equipment technology, ...

Written By: Bob Hesse, October 2012, Edited: Chip Hesse, September 2019 It is tough to fix problems that come into storage. However, every grower experiences them. Arguably one of the most important ...

Trusted advisors play an important role in farming today. ( United Soybean Board & Soybean Checkoff ) Farming is expensive, and it’s unlikely to get cheaper. Everything comes with a price tag. ...

What if you were told in a sales meeting not to make a profit by the CEO, president or company owners? What if your boss said, “We’re making too much money. Cut ...

Important Potato Diseases and Tips to Manage them in Storage As the potato harvest is ongoing in many places and much of the harvested potatoes are being stored, it is a good ...

The use of drones in Indian agriculture has been an issue rife with debate, and the past decade has seen an equal measure of views emanating from endorsing and censuring camps. The ...

Potatoes are an important crop throughout the world but a new and, so far, undescribed disease has been observed on potato plants during the growing season, and in tubers during the storage ...

The potato plots of the Crop Tour are increasingly in need of precipitation, especially in the south of the country the soil is very dry. The growers of the plots in Cuijk, ...

Robert Carl Stokes, the kingpin of crop insurance fraud, helmed a historic cabal that took advantage of graft and corruption at all levels of agriculture to the tune of at least $100 ...

Profitability and productivity are key components to the survival of a farm operation, and efficiency is a key variable in calculating how profitable and productive an operation is. To perform those calculations, ...

With the advent of precision agriculture, a bevy of data is readily available for farmers from satellites and drones, but too much information can be overwhelming. That’s why it’s important to work ...

With higher acreage and yields equal to the five-year average, the harvest of consumer potatoes in North-West Europe is 3.8 percent higher this year than last year. The Netherlands does not contribute ...

(MENAFN - The Conversation) Demand for potatoes in eastern Africa has been growing steadily , achieving an annual growth of 3.1% between 1993 and 2020. This growth is driven in part by ...

Researchers in southern Alberta are studying how potato farmers and their crops could benefit from new irrigation technology. Towards Climate-Robust Irrigation Water Management for Potato Production is now in the second year ...

A diagnostic lab had to confirm these potato mop-top virus (PMTV) symptoms. Note concentric arcs that can occur with these viruses. This textbook symptom of spraing can be misleading because it does ...

The 2020/21 potato storage season is proving to be one of the most challenging yet for the potato industry. With storage season fast approaching, harvest provides the best opportunity to familiarise yourself ...

Agritech Startup Agricx Is Helping Farmers Get A Fair Price By Grading And Certifying Their Produce With Its AI-Based SaaS Solution About 58% of India’s enormous 1.3 Bn population depends on agriculture to eke ...

Agricultural enterprises and farmers of the Tambov region have begun harvesting potatoes. This year, “second bread” is present in the crop rotation of 35 commodity producers, who allotted 3 hectares for it. ...

In 1978, Wim Westhoeve, at the age of 32, started to buy Dutch potatoes from local farmers.These earlies were stored outside under special foil for immediate resale to wholesalers. These wholesalers in ...

The new report titled Global Potato Planter Market 2020 by Manufacturers, Regions, Type and Application, Forecast to 2025 published by MarketsandResearch.biz aims to provide an overview of the global market covering the market landscape and its ...

Summary BBSRC, on behalf also of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and the Scottish Government, announces a call for research to address ...

• The Faculty of Life Sciences of the University of Vienna coordinates a consortium of 17European leading academic research institutions, potato breeders, a non-profit EUassociation, a government agency and a screening technology ...

Scientists at the University of Strathclyde are working with partners to tackle one of the most damaging bacterial plant diseases in the UK, responsible for annual losses of £50m for the potato ...