Among both organic and traditional producers, an increasing number of farmers are seeking greener alternatives for weed and pest management. Heat treatment technologies like propane-powered flame weeding systems and Thermaculture ...
peasants from Boyaca take to the highways to give away or sell their product at very low costs to prevent them from rotting. Denouncing the abandonment of the national government, ...
Eric Anderson, Senior Agronomist at Scottish Agronomy looks at some key issues to be thinking about ahead of potato storage this autumn. For seed, using positive ventilation is accepted as ...
LeRoy Salazar not only has plenty of experience growing potatoes, he has the rather unique experience — at least among American farmers — of having grown potatoes where they originated: ...
Nutrient management is the key to sound agronomic practices and how those practices affect crop production and the environment. Food and agriculture together is the top industry in Ohio, and ...
Data-driven decisions based on weather information are helping East Anglian farms cut the cost and environmental impact of crop spraying – with the help of a new free-to-use sensor network. ...
Nine early-stage agtech startups focusing on row crop innovations and sustainability are preparing for a week of intense virtual programming and the chance to pitch to a panel of farmers ...
The severity – and timing – of recent autumn downpours has illustrated the impact of a changing climate on farms and underlined the importance of long-term investment in land drainage, ...
Potatoes are grown for their attractive market prices. However, this lucrative investment can result into frustration especially if diseases strike. The best way to guarantee success in production is to ...
The Supporters of Agricultural Research (SoAR) Foundation released Developing Global Priorities for Plant Research: Adapting Agriculture to Climate Variability, today. With support from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of ...
Biodiversity loss threatens national security. We need to invest in technologies to preserve our vital food varieties. As the impacts of climate change intensify — from water scarcity to raging ...
Joshua Kagera embraced potato farming with gusto four years ago. Back then he says, things were sweet. “I was able to live comfortably from growing the crop. I had a ...
Sowing wildflowers into potato crops could reduce aphid-carried viruses and offer an alternative to declining access to insecticides for growers. In Scotland, trials are being carried out to discover the ...
The farmers whose crops were left unharvested were waiting for rain to soften the dirt lumps so they wouldn’t bruise the potatoes, then temperatures dipped into the low double digits ...
Lucrative as it is, potato industry is yet to achieve its full potential. At present, the average potato yield in Kenya is only three to six tonnes per acre. Contributing ...
Outsized wildfires, rising sea levels and disappearing glaciers are dramatic signs of climate change, but not the only ones, scientists say. New research from the University of California’s Division of ...
Höxter (wrs) - Yellow and white splashes of colour are currently eye-catching in the landscape: the colored fields are often yellow mustard or white oilradish. Both belong to the so-called ...
Words by Heather Woods, from the October issue of NZ Grower In 1918, still a teenager, Quentin Wright wrote in his journal that they were planting potatoes when news came ...
The race is on to get this year’s potato crop harvested as growers battle their way through drenched fields and muddy conditions. The season has been one of extremes, with ...
As produce growers struggle to improve food safety practices and mandatory reporting, one possible link attributed to foodborne illness outbreaks in leafy greens in the past decade is being addressed ...
JAVIER MELENDEZ. From a childhood in the countryside to running the first national potato operator, Potatoes Meléndez A potato factory as the flagship of innovation for an entire sector? "Why not?"» Javier ...
The virus has had a major impact on the global potato industry since its discovery and spread at the beginning of the year, writes Cedric Porter, Editor of World Potato ...
The Ministry of Agriculture will release two new potato varieties, which will benefit producers to improve their marketing. Ten organizations and more than 200 semi-llerists will be direct beneficiaries of ...
Farmer Heinz-Wilhelm Tölkes shows potatoes that come fresh from the ground. Photo: Norbert Prümen Kempen. In the farmers' fields it is becoming empty. Currently, the potato harvest determines the picture. For this ...