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Pathogen. The fungus persists either in the soil or on infected seed tubers. Disease development. Infection takes place through wounds or bruises at harvest or when grading. The rot develops ...

Dutch seed potato growers feed over 800 million people worldwide. This is the message that Potato Valley wants to convey to us more clearly. According to Knowledge Network, this was ...

Statistics Canada has estimated Canadian Potato Production in 2022 to be 122,970,000 hundred weight, up 0.8% over 2021. Despite a very cold and wet spring delaying planting and very hot, ...

Scientists claim a potentially “powerful” treatment for cancer might lie in potatoes, according to new research published Wednesday. As Brooke Steinberg reports in an article published by the New York Post, academic researchers ...

In a powerful speech to open COP15, the UN Biodiversity Conference, in Montreal, UN Secretary General António Guterres said that "We are waging a war on nature" and called for ...

Pathogen. The pink rot fungus is soil-borne and is found in most agricultural soils. Disease development. Infection usually occurs before or at harvest. The disease is associated with excessive soil ...

As phosphate fertilizer prices remain at very high levels after spiking this year, scientists are calling for urgent measures to manage phosphorus, a vital element essential for food production, but ...

Pathogen. The silver scurf fungus overwinters mainly on infected seed tubers. It can also survive for at least one year on decaying organic matter in the soil, indicating that soil ...

Pathogen. The black dot fungus persists as tiny sclerotia on the surface of tubers or in plant debris in the soil. Disease development. The black dot fungus needs a wound ...

Pathogen. The grey mold fungus persists on dead or dying plant material in the soil.Disease development. Cool, humid conditions and dense crop canopies favour infection. The fungus penetrates leaves through ...

There are two things we know for sure, writes Ian Petrie in a news story published by Island Farmer. He goes on to say that Prince Edward Island (PEI) potato growers in Canada ...

When plants are healthy, they emit red light that is nearly impossible to see with the naked eye, but with a new instrument developed at York University, it's now possible ...

Pathogen. This fungus persists in the soil for many years as tiny propagules called microsclerotia. Short crop rotations, especially in sandy soils with susceptible varieties, tend to increase the population ...

Gordon MP Richard Thomson has given a cautious welcome to a response from DEFRA Minister of State Richard Benyon confirming the UK Government has acted on his request that it ...

Pathogen. The fungus persists in plant refuse in the soil, on weeds and on other susceptible hosts.Disease development. Infection occurs when windblown spores germinate on the foliage. Temperatures above 18°C ...

Next Europatat Congress to take place in Gdańsk. THE  Polish Potato Federation and Europatat have jointly announced that the next Europatat Congress will take place in Gdańsk, Poland from June ...

The Polish Potato Federation and Europatat are excited to announce that the next Europatat Congress will take place in the beautiful city of Gdańsk (Poland) from 5 to 7 June ...

Belgian processors Agristo and Clarebout are leading the way with significant contract price increases for french fries grown during the 2023 growing season.Late last week, Agristo announced that the processor ...

Following years of research and development in conjunction with Lamb Weston, Sergio Herman from Frites Atelier is confident enough to have his Frites available for chefs and restaurants who want ...

To reconsider how produce is packaged, Wisconsin potato and onion distributor Vee’s Marketing, Inc. developed the Brown Bag Potatoes (BBP) brand’s packaging, which is both environmentally friendly and entirely compostable, ...

Poor stands resulting from seed piece decay can be a major problem if cool, wet weather prevails immediately after planting. Several pathogens may cause seed tubers to rot before emergence.Fusarium ...

INTERPOM will take place on 27, 28 & 29 of November and will once again be the ultimate international meeting place in Kortrijk Xpo (Belgium) for all the professionals involved ...

Drone technology saves time, improves production Trial-and-error research is a time-honored tradition, but with the global population now at 7.9 billion – and expected to top 9.7 billion by 2050 ...

Animals can adapt quickly to survive adverse environmental conditions. Evidence is mounting to show that plants can, too. A paper publishing in the journal Trends in Plant Science on November 17 details ...

According to project leader Niels Haining of Bionext, reliable potato varieties for organic cultivation also offer benefits to the conventional grower. On Wednesday, 31 participants in the supply chain from ...