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CROP solutions provider Fera is to provide an aphid monitoring programme in seed potatoes, with yellow water traps, for the 2022 season, after establishing a demand from existing customers and ...

The ground-breaking organisation first set up by Scottish seed potato growers will celebrate its 50th anniversary this weekend.

During the event, one farmer asked: “Can a soil test help determine the need for a fungicide application, and does healthy soil correlate with less need for fungicide?” Ken Ferrie, ...

The CIP Genebank initiated in vitro cultures more than 40 years ago and has extensive expertise in developing and assaying tissue culture technologies for these crops. In vitro cultures are initiated from and maintained sterily ...

Due to potato stocks depleting rapidly, the retail price of spuds rose sharply by 39%. Each kilo was sold for USD0.25 to USD0.32 in Dhaka markets these days, whereas it ...

After one of the wettest summers in recent decades, potato crop conditions at the end of the harvest period were not always easy in most countries. France was the exception with ...

economists expect high input prices to persist through spring.

Studies in three Africa countries validate the value of seed system tools  Cassava trader in Uganda Seed systems are essential for getting new crop varieties to farmers and, in the case of banana, cassava, ...

Market conditions for potatoes in the US were running above year-ago levels in late October and early November, according to a report by Tom Karst for The Packer. He reports that the top ...

The potato breeding world is taking in the whole picture when it comes to diploids.  The words diploids and true potato seeds have been popping up a lot in the ...

Scientists have said that there is a need for effective ways to cope with a deadly disease dubbed “Potato Bacterial Wilt (PBW) Disease” that continues to affect Irish Potato farmers. According to ...

For decades, the University of Maine has devoted valuable agricultural research to studying how to improve potato crops, a central element of the state’s agricultural economy. Over the past year, ...

More in Across Regions: Carbon farming and the regenerative revolution in foodNovember 15, 2021Is this the largest potato in the world?October 30, 2021The ‘potato custodians’ in the Andes who are ...

The US Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s chip potato industry absorbs annually almost 83,000 tons of primarily white spuds, locally produced. To keep that flow, the farmers rely on the potato research ...

It was supposed to be for one year only when the Prince Edward Island provincial government placed a moratorium on high capacity wells for irrigation in 2001. Instead, it lasted ...

Growers want processors to offer higher prices to compensate for increased fertiliser costs.

Three keys to making the plan work

In general, the peasants value rainfall positively since they have recharged the aquifers It never rains to everyone's liking, although this time it seems that most farmers are satisfied with ...

Market conditions for potatoes were running above year-ago levels in late October and early November. The top shipping states for potatoes in late October, according to the U.S. Department of ...

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

Russ Van Boom and Keith and Kevin Goutbeck of Sturgeon County’s Northbank Potato Farms will receive a 2020 Farm Family Award Nov. 12 as part of Farmfair International. They and 15 other ...

The fertilizer prices are at a record level. Still, there is nothing to buy. What can farmers do? Strategies and their consequences Farmers are currently faced with difficult business decisions. The purchase prices for fertilizer and ...

E Green Global, an agricultural biotech company, has scored the world’s first-ever success in commercialising the Microtuber Technology, allowing for the fast production of cheap, disease-free seed potatoes, and bringing ...

Engie's new energy-positive drying and storage process is already yielding good results in the Netherlands and Germany.

Root Zero – Puffin Produce’s certified carbon neutral potatoes, grown using sustainable farming practices to remove carbon dioxide, to create healthy soil, and to increase local biodiversity – have been ...