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Collaboration should ensure that all companies that participate in the potato chain earn from it,

This situation has resulted in the region of Castile-Leon having around 50% more than usual in storage at this time, and with great difficulties to find markets for it

If potato growers decide they no longer want to pay the £42.62 per hectare levy, then the potato part of the AHDB will likely cease.

The San Luis Valley is in south-central Colorado at an elevation of 7,544 feet, making it the largest alpine desert in the world. The area, roughly 60 miles east to west and ...

The first-ever virtual Potato Expo is on tap for Jan. 5-7 and the event has plenty to offer the industry, National Potato Council leaders say. The Packer’s Tom Karst visited Dec. 15 with Kam Quarles, CEO of ...

The National Potato Council of Kenya (NPCK) has identified transport and potato farmers as NPCK as the main challenges facing potato farmers. Failure to comply with the 50kg law in parts of ...

Sorma Group announced it is introducing a fruit and vegetable packaging that is 100% paper-based and therefore completely recyclable. The models boast an innovative and distinctive component compared to those currently available ...

A low-cost robotic platform which can be fitted with almost any agricultural implement could help farmers across the UK to overcome the lack of available manual labour. The Robotriks Traction Unit (RTU), ...

No potato producer wants to find deep, rough and pitted lesions on the skin of their potatoes. Common scab disease is a widespread issue that can lead to major economic losses, at ...

Ten-wheeler truck after ten-wheeler truck rolls by on Airport Road southeast of Aberdeen, kicking up gravel and a familiar, harvesty cloud of dust. Ritchey Toevs has just a few minutes to sit and talk about ...

Incorporating a cover crop into commercially grown potatoes could help with soil health and pest pressures. Research is being conducted in Michigan's northern Lower and Upper Peninsulas. I recently attended the Aug. ...

Videogame technology will be used to help develop the perfect potato as part of a ground-breaking new project involving Abertay University and a major potato seed supplier. The University has entered into ...

The northern Norwegian production of potatoes, vegetables and berries is the northernmost in the world. Every year, tons of potatoes, berries and vegetables are produced in Troms and Finnmark. According to the ...

It is the dawn of a new era in the sustainable packaging sector: Sorma Group is introducing fruit and vegetable packaging that is 100% paper-based and therefore completely recyclable. The designed models, ...

AUSVEG and the EnviroVeg Program have joined a collaboration of horticulture industry groups in a new project investigating the use of remote monitoring, to support vegetable producers automate the collection of data ...

Agronomic improvement comes first, followed by nutritional enhancement and biotic stress resistance as traits of field trials. Regarding the biotech crops, potato is the most tested crop with a fifth of the ...

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 provide a ...

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. Norwich-based machinery ...

Romagnoli F.lli Spa continues the path of research and innovation with a view to sustainability for the entire potato supply chain, in which the company operates from sowing to marketing and announces its commitment to ...

Soil alarmists such as Barbara Baarsma, professor of economics and director of Rabobank Amsterdam, argue that dutch soil is doing badly. The Environment Council also takes this view. Anyone who digs a ...

Capable operators fill gaps between functions and needs as industry flies high GUANGZHOU, China -- Use of unmanned aerial vehicles or drones in agriculture is expanding in China at a speed unmatched ...

The Agriculture Council of Antigua City Council offers this free course on October 29, 30 and 31. For the first time in Antigua, a Workshop on potato cultivation is taught, being one ...

The Pesticides Initiative calls for a ban on synthetic pesticides in Switzerland and a ban on imports of food produced with pesticides. It will not be put to the vote until next ...

Tissue culture technology is being widely used for large-scale plant multiplication and gives a science-based solution for plant propagation, disease elimination and plant improvement, said Pakistan Agricultural Research Council (PARC) Chairman Dr ...

ABSTRACT CRISPR-cas gene editing in crop plants could significantly speed up the progress of breeding programs. Strikingly in the agricultural sector, the number of CRISPR-cas patents originating from Europe trails far behind ...