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A group of farmers and researchers has developed an innovative, sustainable method of tackling a pest that threatens to “annihilate” Scotland’s potato industry within 30 years. Potato cyst nematode (PCN) ...

The San Luis Valley is in south-central Colorado at an elevation of 7,544 feet, making it the largest alpine desert in the world. The area, roughly 60 miles east to ...

At this time of the year and with the increase in cold, agricultural crops are affected by what is called root rot due to cold and dense shade, which affects the volume of ...

Good nematodes can suppress plant parasitic nematodes. It's worth stimulating the good nematodes instead of just paying attention to the bad ones. “Growers can easily name eight of the ten bad varieties, ...

It is common to think that food crops are going to suffer negative effects due to the increase in global temperatures or the water deficit generated by climate change, however, ...

Mickelsen Farms was founded in 1988 by brothers Lynn and Dale Mickelsen and Lynn’s son, Mark, but the family’s potato-farming history in southeastern Idaho goes back further than that. “We’ve ...

This week, key actors from Georgia’s potato sector convened virtually to discuss ideas to enhance the country’s potato sector.  Called the “Georgia Potato Forum,” the meeting focused on ways to develop value chains to improve ...

“From field research, a new line of “resilient” potatoes that adapts to climate change and resists disease without chemical residues. For an agriculture that is increasingly respectful of the soil ...

On November 19, the Xunta announced the lifting of the ban on planting potatoes in nine other municipalities in the provinces of A Coruña and Lugo affected by the Guatemalan ...

BREAKING old cycles and farming in a more unpredictable way is necessary to upset the evolutionary response of weeds, according to Australian Herbicide Resistance Initiative research agronomist Mike Ashworth. Research ...

A lot of farm kids—probably a healthy majority—spend a good portion of their youth grumbling about the long hours, the low wages, the heat, the cold. They get the work ...

The Belgian potato sector wants to be less dependent on the supply of seed potatoes from abroad, especially from the Netherlands. The recently started branch organization for the Belgian potato ...

Northern Ireland’s potato industry (potato Imports) is hoping against hope that a derogation allowing the importation of both ware and seed from Great Britain into the region, beyond December 31, ...

It’s only early days, but Tim Heysen is excited about boldly going where no potato grower has gone before. Together with growers in the south east, southern Murraylands and the ...

Even though resistance to Pectobacterium species is limited within cultivated potato varieties, it is known that a wild potato relative (S. chacoense) is resistant to them; however, until recently, the underlying mechanisms ...

With the pilot 'smart big bags' HZPC uses the internet of things to share knowledge and get a better grip on the delivery process of seed potatoes. Between December and ...

Older seed doesn’t have one dominant sprout, but several. It results in more — but smaller — potatoes, an advantage when you have an early harvest or grow varieties that ...

Widely used herbicides are struggling to kill some weeds. Some experts think heat could be part of the problem. AROUND 10 YEARS AGO, in the fierce heat of the Kansas summer, ...

Idaho saw great weather throughout their potato harvest this year, which started in August and went through October. “The harvest even wrapped up a bit earlier than usual this year ...

Next year HZPC expects to own the first prototype of a hybrid potato variety. These potatoes will be sown instead of planted, and that offers perspective for the food security ...

In recent years, rising global temperatures have left potato farmers anxious as their crops struggle to survive lengthy dry cycles that are often marked by extremely high temperatures.  Potatoes grow ...

For both potatoes and onions, “the 2020 crop has come out of the gate very strong,” according to Eric Beck, director of marketing for Wada Farms Marketing Group LLC in ...

Calcium plays an important role in in potato quality, production. Cell membrane health is very crucial to the survival and health of the plant cell. The health of the cell ...

A new study published in Plant Pathology identifies for the first time the genotypes of P. infestans, causing late blight in the main potato-growing regions in Java, Indonesia. Potato late ...

NPPGA ramps up digital to keep message fresh, timely. Communication within every company and association is key, particularly during these times of less in-person time and more face-to-face via app ...