Optimal storage practices start in the field and can hinge on a variety of factors and conditions, both with the tubers and inside their storage environment. As we’ve seen this ...
Finally, I’m here, in Québec City, the heart of French Canada. Now, if I can get by on the six words of French I learned from Beauty and the Beast, all will be ...
Cisgenic potatoes do not provide a different soil life than classically bred potatoes. This is evident from a study by German, Irish and Wageningen researchers. The researchers planted two potato ...
Forecast models are a good tool for starting the spraying process. However, it is important to control the potato whipping yourself. If the past two years have brought an advantage, it ...
Our family company was set up in 1895 as seed merchants who specialise in seed potatoes and grass seed. We also trade in other vegetable seeds and have developed our ...
The NVWA has established an infection with wart disease on two plots in the municipality of Stadskanaal (GR). Additional research in the area has not led to more finds. The reason ...
The potato campaign is also practically over in Castilla y León. It just remains to start, and with a very bad prospect for commercialization, as Marco Martín, president of Asopocyl, comments. There ...
Best Management Practices (BMPs) are the best recommended agronomic practices for growing a specified crop. These practices are based on research and experience and apply to potatoes under the specified ...
It’s strangely quiet for an early October afternoon at Flying A Ranch in Ashton, Idaho. Trucks and tractors, potato windrowers and grain combines sit idle and unfamiliarly dust-free, waiting for the ground ...
The online portal of the Potates News announces a new section - Company History. And he suggests that all participants in the potato and vegetable market place in it a ...
Drs. Paul Bethke and Shelley Jansky are researchers in the Agricultural Research Service's Vegetable Crop Research Unit located in Madison, WI. Their research encapsulates efforts to improve the breeding, cultivation, ...
If rapeseed follows, cruciferous vegetables are not allowed in the cover crop mix. But what should come before grain or as a mixture for feeding? Here are our eight tips. Catch crops ...
Michael Family Farms is located right in the kind of sweet spot that has the potential to make a lot of growers jealous. Urbana, Ohio, where the Michaels have farmed for four ...
Demo trials by BASF show that, thanks to more efficient control of rhizoctonia, seed potato growers can often harvest earlier and also get more available product from the land. In ...
The Top Sector Agri & Food has approved four new research proposals from BO Akkerbouw. It concerns research and knowledge dissemination about soil, fertilization, stem nematodes and crop residues. BO Akkerbouw's ...
Videogame technology will be used to help develop the perfect potato as part of a ground-breaking new project involving Abertay University and a major potato seed supplier. The University has ...
Corona is forcing potato breeding companies and trading houses to think about a different set-up of the traditional variety shows this year. A number of companies opt for an event online, ...
Cover crops are crops which are not sown to be harvested but rather to be incorporated in the soil at some point in their growth. In potato farming, cover crops ...
The continued wet weather in late October/early November has extended the harvesting season beyond eight weeks for some, which is clearly not good news where stores have been part-filled and ...
Agronico is a proud family owned business, based in the small Tasmanian town of Spreyton. Agronico was formed in 1985 by agronomist Julian Shaw (BAgrSc) who with 9 years prior experience ...
Key takeaways about potato breeding and the future of it from HZPC’s Potato Days Live. This year, the global potato industry gathered together virtually for Dutch potato breeder HZPC’s Potato ...
WORLD POTATO CONGRESS INC. WEBINAR DECEMBER 15, 2020 AT 09:00 A.M. EASTERN STANDARD TIME – “DEVELOPING THE PIPELINE FROM GENOMICS TO NEW PRODUCTS” WITH DR. MARK TAYLOR The World Potato ...
Covid-19 has changed the way business is done across the globe, and it is no different when it comes to agricultural research. In a previous post, we highlighted how Medius.Re can ...
Even during this challenging time, we would like to let your (takeaway and delivery) menu shine! Together with you we would like to surprise your guests. If you are interested ...
Morocco is in the position of net importer of agricultural products, whereas before it was a major exporter. In this way, the Kingdom has opened the door to European agribusiness in ...