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The World Potato Congress Inc. is very excited to announce its first webinar of 2022. In preparation for the World Potato Congress being held from May 30 to June 2, ...

There’s a growing global potato shortage — a real problem for a planet addicted to french fries and chips. A McDonald's in Tokyo on Dec. 29. In Japan, McDonald’s locations ...

Potatoes USA has issued a comprehensive research report depicting the potato category’s penetration on menus across different segments, dayparts, cuisines, and much more. The data is collected by Datassential, a leading ...

...bottles with weed seeds were then buried in a secret location State University in the fall of 1879.

"An older farmer like me can continue to work mechanically, but younger generations do not have that experience.”

After a very wet summer, slow and difficult harvesting conditions in Belgium, Holland and Germany.After one of the most humid summers in the last decades, end of harvest conditions were ...

A fourth-generation potato farming and marketing family in North Dakota is leaping into a new era of electronic potato grading. As AgWeek’s Mikkel Pates reports, the Hall family partnership of Hoople in ...

(NOTE: This is the first of a two-part series on the Vision 2026 program to rethink the seed potato certification system.) A crop consultant’s persistence to help seed potato growers ...

At the European level, the effects of various lockdown measures over the last few weeks are becoming more apparent, with heightened nervousness related to Omicron encouraging buyers to keep stock ...

East Anglia's farmers and food producers must overcome a raft of challenges in 2022 says Gary Ford, regional director of the National Farmers' Union (NFU). Here, he outlines five of the main ...

DETROIT (Reuters) - John Deere & Co said on Tuesday it will start commercial delivery this year of technology that enables a tractor to till a field without an operator ...

This is now also shown by the drought monitor from the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research (UFZ)

The latest United Potato Growers of Canada (UPGC) report shows that the total cultivar storage holdings, the fresh holdings (those potatoes intended for table use), the holdings of potatoes destined ...

Dr. Rashmi Singh, Scientist DST launching the AI based Mobile App developed by Research Scholar of Chandigarh University Amit Verma which can help farmers for the early detection of diseases ...

The latest Union Nationale des Producteurs de Pommes de Terre (UNPT) forecasts for the 2022-2023 potato campaign show that the attractiveness and profitability of the cultivar crop are still in ...

EUROPEAN Potato Trade Association, Europatat, is calling on EU and UK policy makers to break the deadlock and reach an agreement on the resumption in the bilateral trade of seed ...

He wanted to get the most out of the crop with drip irrigation- 15 potato tubers per plant

Article by Roger J. Stirnimann, Dipl.-Ing. agr., Dipl.-Ing. Wirtsch., Executive MBA, University of Agricultural, Forestry and Food Sciences, Zollikofen (DLG). Agritechnica is regarded as the world's most important platform for ...

Just before Christmas, there was information that nitrogen fertilizers became more expensive. The price of ammonium nitrate exceeded PLN 4,000. PLN per tonne net. What now? Only a few companies have price lists and ...

The winners of the CeresAwards 2021 are optimistic about the new year.

The Canadian Potato Production for 2021 has been estimated by Statistics Canada to reach 6,891,024 tons, showing a YOY (Year-On-Year) decline of 18.2% or 1,063,440 tons of spuds. On the ...

Herbicides are still the main weeds control option

SPEAKERS at the recent CropTec Show in Peterborough explored the latest thinking on soil health, crop nutrition and crop protection and these seminars are now available to view on demand. Chair ...

An effective weed management program takes into account the type of weeds present, crop rotation, cultivation, available herbicides, and the competitive ability of the potato crop. Competition from early season ...

Growing potatoes with excellent taste characteristics was the starting point for Jeroen Klompe’s eight-year journey to improve his soil, and his management of it within a potato rotation. Farming 368ha ...