Nature-friendly farming reduces costs for potato farmer
Managing plant health and strict water monitoring have paved the way to success for AL 3 Boerdery in Dendron, Limpopo. CT van der Merwe spoke to Lindi Botha about the ...
Managing plant health and strict water monitoring have paved the way to success for AL 3 Boerdery in Dendron, Limpopo. CT van der Merwe spoke to Lindi Botha about the ...
Agronomic improvement comes first, followed by nutritional enhancement and biotic stress resistance as traits of field trials. Regarding the biotech crops, potato is the most tested crop with a fifth ...
Corona is forcing the potato trading houses to think about a different format for the traditional variety shows this year. A number of companies opt for an event online, others have ...
Potato farmers from the Belén Settlement in the district of Tacuaras, Ñeembucú, received inputs and advice on seed production and sanitation. For the current harvest, the seeds had been provided ...
over crops, also referred to as green manure crops, are crops planted as a break between commercial crops. They are grown and incorporated back into the soil rather than for ...
Potatoes with purple tubers have been available on the domestic market for some time . After getting acquainted with the place of their origin, indicated on the shop label, we learn that these ...
he potato variety Gardena has been called the potato of the future. It is the result of the previously adopted Polish breeding strategy. It was selected on the basis of the identification ...
Peter van der Poel from Abbenbroek received a visit from the king in July, who wanted to get an impression of the impact of corona on potato sales. The grower was ...
Tholen - The corona crisis dealt a blow to the fries processing industry and that in turn had consequences for the growers who supply the industry. This is also the case ...
The Wayside, just off the Heyburn exit, serves a decent burger and killer apple pie. It’s packed in here, as it is every day at noon, but it’s still one ...
Houston-based Mountain King Potatoes is stepping up its packaging capacity of smaller-sized potatoes varieties in the face of strong demand. A recently authorized fourth round of purchases for the USDA Farmers to ...
The area dedicated to the production of seed potatoes in Spain is 2,150 hectares, with a very good quality crop that has managed to maintain itself these years where others ...
Good quality, volume predicted as San Luis Valley crop hits the market. Colorado’s unmatched scenery, climate, and its popularity as a tourist destination often overshadow some of its less obvious ...
Eric Anderson, Senior Agronomist at Scottish Agronomy looks at some key issues to be thinking about ahead of potato storage this autumn. For seed, using positive ventilation is accepted as ...
LeRoy Salazar not only has plenty of experience growing potatoes, he has the rather unique experience — at least among American farmers — of having grown potatoes where they originated: ...
The European potato sector is faced with low prices, high costs, major challenges in the field of plant health and the reduction of environmental impact and, due to corona, for ...
Leuven, Belgium, 20 November 2019 – By using the TOMRA 3A high-performance sorting machine Duchemin (Caen) are able to ensure their potatoes are a premium product. Created in 1984 in ...
Potatoes are grown for their attractive market prices. However, this lucrative investment can result into frustration especially if diseases strike. The best way to guarantee success in production is to ...
Biodiversity loss threatens national security. We need to invest in technologies to preserve our vital food varieties. As the impacts of climate change intensify — from water scarcity to raging ...
Romagnoli F.lli Spa continues the path of research and innovation with a view to sustainability for the entire potato supply chain, in which the company operates from sowing to marketing and announces its ...
Savvy agronomy is one of the best returns on money, according to Iain Wilson, who saved his salary in inputs in his first year as Farm Manager at Tulloch Farms ...
Words by Heather Woods, from the October issue of NZ Grower In 1918, still a teenager, Quentin Wright wrote in his journal that they were planting potatoes when news came ...
Potatoes get a bad rap. Perhaps due to the humble root vegetable’s association with French fries or as a gravy-swamped side, many people think of it as unhealthy. But potatoes ...
JAVIER MELENDEZ. From a childhood in the countryside to running the first national potato operator, Potatoes Meléndez A potato factory as the flagship of innovation for an entire sector? "Why not?"» Javier ...