The Long Term Management Plan to address potato wart on Canada’s Prince Edward Island (P.E.I.) was “modernized” recently, according to a statement from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) to ...
Researchers at ETH Zurich and the Carnegie Institution for Science have shown how nitrogen fertilizer could be produced more sustainably. This is necessary not only to protect the climate, but ...
The FAO Food Price Index* (FFPI) averaged 132.4 points in December 2022, down 2.6 points (1.9 percent) from November, marking the ninth consecutive monthly decline and standing 1.3 points (1.0 percent) below ...
Potato stocks in Canada are 0.4 percent lower than last year. However, inventories as of early January are 5.8 percent higher than the multi-year average. The total supply of potatoes ...
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, ...
As of the end of November 2022, nearly 60% of the United States remains in moderate to exceptional drought, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. With input costs encroaching ...
Northland Potato Growers Association, of Grand Forks, ND, formerly known as Northern Plains Potato Growers Association, has provided a direct connection to potential customers via a new microsite. “Flavorohyeah.com is ...
According to USDA trade figures, this year has been quite successful for U.S. fresh potato exports. The USDA reported that fresh potato exports from the United States from October 2021 ...
Late blight has the potential to be an extremely destructive disease of potatoes. The fungus attacks all parts of the plant. High moisture and night temperatures of 10–15°C and day ...
The Canadian province of Prince Edward Island (PEI) wants to be able to restrict the cultivation of red fruits in areas where the warty disease has been found in potatoes.To ...
The USDA has published a draft report for public consultation assessing pathways of introduction for potato wart from Canada into the United States. This report evaluates the likelihood of introduction of ...
Among the 11,082 samples processed from Prince Edward Island (P.E.I.) fields between July 1, 2022, and the end of September 30, 2022, inspectors from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) ...
Potatoes are the most widely grown and consumed vegetable in the United States. Potatoes’ popularity is a result of their versatility and affordability, as well as being a tasty and ...
On October 14, USDA’s Animal Plant Health Inspection Service released a comprehensive report on the current status of the potato wart crisis on Prince Edward Island, Canada, stating that PEI’s potato wart ...
A new modified corn and potato variety have been given the green light by the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS). The department’s recent reviews analyzed the genetically modified plants to determine ...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) recently posted two Regulatory Status Review (RSR) responses under the revised biotechnology regulations at 7 CFR part ...
Life stages: eggs, nymphs and adults.Aster leafhoppers infesting potatoes in Ontario originate from two sources: overwintering eggs laid in winter cereals and adults carried from the southern United States by ...
Life stages: eggs, nymphs, adults. The potato leafhopper does not overwinter in Ontario. It is carried by upper-level winds from the United States and can arrive in Ontario as early ...
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Ethiopia has given the green light to carry out observation field trials for genetically modified potatoes that are said to be resistant to blight, a move seen as a further ...
The World Potato Congress is extremely pleased to present its fourth webinar on October 18 at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Standard time (USA/Canada) in English followed by the presentation in Spanish. ...
Averis Seeds B.V., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Royal Avebe, will be working together with the hybrid potato breeding company Solynta on the hybrid breeding of starch potato varieties. Hybrid breeding ...
THE SACRED VALLEY OF THE INCAS IN PERU—On a bleak, brown hill here, David Ellis examines a test plot of potato plants and shakes his head. "They're dead, dead, dead," he ...
It is rather difficult to maintain the current positive economic growth data, but this is an important goal of the government, the vice premier said.The increase in exports and the ...
Masaki Shimono has joined the College of Agriculture, Biotechnology & Natural Resources at the University of Nevada, Reno as a research scientist, studying beneficial microbes to improve and mitigate disease ...