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The FAO Food Price Index (FFPI) averaged 134.4 points in November 2021, up 1.6 points (1.2 percent) from October and 28.8 points (27.3 percent) from November 2020. The latest increase marked the fourth consecutive ...

The cost price for the cultivation of ware potatoes has risen explosively, so contract prices have to rise sharply. The costs are approaching 10,000 euros per hectare, according to a report by Fenneke Wiepkema for ...

Throughout 2021, as part of Potato Grower’s celebration of our 50th year in publication, we will be honoring in our pages and on our website 50 of the potato industry’s most innovative and ...

We continue to publish the material of the seminar on methods for assessing the quality of seed potatoes (sampling, tuber analysis, diagnostics of pathogens).An important place should be given to variety change ...

Growing shortages of crop protection and sharply rising prices are signs of the next supply crisis.

The first seven months of 2021 A-INSIGHTS’ frozen potato aggregated statistics show that the global trade volumes stabilize at above pre-COVID levels, while prices remain pressured, with a 4.7% downwards trend. According ...

The FAO Food Price Index (FFPI) averaged 130.0 points in September 2021, up 1.5 points (1.2 percent) from August and 32.1 points (32.8 percent) from the same month last year. The latest rise of ...

ANALYSTS at market and consumer data analytics company, A-INSIGHTS, report that global frozen potato trade volumes for the US stabilised in July, with the year-to-date volume remaining 0.5% above the pre-COVID levels ...

After a couple of difficult seasons, this year’s potato crop on Canada’s Prince Edward Island (P.E.I.) is being called one of the best in decades, reports Nancy Russell for CBC News. But an industry analyst says potato ...

Anniversaries mark moments in time to take stock of accomplishments and reflect on the path traveled. But they also inspire us to look forward to see what has yet to be done, ...

Anniversaries mark moments in time to take stock of accomplishments and reflect on the path traveled. But they also inspire us to look forward to see what has yet to be done, ...

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 ...

Fertilizers not only become dramatically more expensive, but also often difficult to buy.

Although the potato area has decreased considerably this year, the yield could turn out to be higher. “The yield per hectare will be decisive,” said North-Western European Potato Growers (NEPG). The grouping of ...

The infamous pathogen Phytophthora infestans caused famine in Ireland and other parts of Western Europe in the 19th century and continues to pose a major threat to our food production worldwide. For ...

Harvesting of early potatoes is now in full swing in the Krasnodar and Stavropol regions, as well as in the Astrakhan and Rostov regions.

The fertilizers prices have not been so high for many years. But while grain prices are falling again, the arable farmers have to spend more and more money on fertilizer. Read why this is ...

Tholen - Today Polder Potato started again with the first new potatoes from the island of Tholen

South Africa is currently experiencing a sharp rise in potato prices after extremely cold weather conditions in the northern parts of the country affected potato harvests. Last week, the average price for a ...

The acreage also appears to be declining in the rest of northwestern Europe, with estimates suggesting a decrease of three to even five percent.

The small European country of Belgium is the undisputed king of french fries worldwide. In just under 30 years, the sector grew by 1,000%. If it is up to french fries producer ...

As a historic drought ravages farms and ranches throughout the Klamath Basin on the California-Oregon border there are visible signs of the calamity everywhere. Fields lie fallow. There are dust storms in ...

There does not seem to be an end to the rise in fertilizer prices

Potato cooperative Agrico last week announced to its members an average indication price of 25 euros per 100 kilos for seed potatoes from the 2020 harvest. Last year, company paid a price ...

Farm inputs are becoming more and more expensive for farmers. This also means that the costs of agricultural production are exploding