WUR is investigating possible brown rot infection route via potato roots
Can brown rot be spread through the roots of the potato plant? That is the central question in a study that Wageningen UR will be carrying out at the request of ...
Can brown rot be spread through the roots of the potato plant? That is the central question in a study that Wageningen UR will be carrying out at the request 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 ...
2021 is a new year for potato growers, and that’s a good thing. “Most growers are pretty happy to have last year behind them,” said Mark Klompien, president and CEO ...
As the Magic Valley region in southern Idaho prepares for potentially record-setting heat this week, farmers, potato researchers and dairy scientists are all voicing concerns. The National Weather Service has ...
Under the impulse of the Ecological Focus Area, the use of green manure mixtures is now commonplace. Mixtures have advantages in terms of soil cover and biomass, but if there are ...
We've been irrigation the potatoes intensively for several weeks now, with increasingly tight shifts
Canada’s potato crop should be larger this year following the pandemic drop
Mechanical weed control in potatoes and beets is possible, but you have to be on top of it all the time.
Eugenia Banks of the Ontario Potato Board has created a resource on late blight, updated for the 2021 growing season.
In order to provide the plant with an even more targeted watering, Delphy has set up trials at two companies in which irrigating crops based on data is central.
China's scientists have developed a generation of "pure and fertile potato lines" with genome editing technologies in a groundbreaking achievement.
SupPlant’s technology aims to address the impact of global warming worldwide on smallholder farmers and is designed for the world’s 450 million small growers, as 76 percent of farmers grow ...
Following the hiatus due to the pandemic, the DLG (German Agricultural Society) is relaunching three international trade shows for potato production and processing over the next few months. Potato Days ...
What is the best way to kill potato leaves? What are the advice and options? During an AgrioTV broadcast on June 29, experts will discuss the theme live on the basis of ...
A variety trial in potato was set up in Lennik as part of the Potato Agricultural Center. The aim is to find a worthy alternative to Fontane and Innovator, each ...
That’s how Karlene Hardy describes the people from across the country she and her husband Randy have gotten to know and work with over the couple’s 50 years in the ...
Now that the Dutch government is releasing restrictive measures step by step, the exhibition organisation is pleased to report that currently, all lights are green for PotatoEurope 2021. The ticket ...
Azoles are widely used as fungicides in arable farming.
growers to recognize the potential food safety risks associated with the rapidly expanding use of biostimulants and biofertilizers in crop management.
In the same way virtual assistants help us discover our next favorite song, a new software package has used advanced machine learning to help farmers and agronomists pinpoint what their ...
McCain Foods Limited has announced plans for a second Farm of the Future in South Africa as part of its efforts to reduce carbon emissions and address the effects of ...
North Carolina State University researchers continue to track the evolution of different strains of the plant pathogen that caused the Irish potato famine in the 1840s, which set down roots ...
Do not rush to judgment on those herbicides, however, if grasses become a problem after potatoes have emerged.
A rotation is more than not getting sick of a crop, it is also about keeping the soil healthy gezond
If you’ve been on the land for four generations already, you want to make sure you keep it going for the next one. In southern Victoria, Blowhard potato farmer Gary Crick ...