Tomatoes see ripening problems in high tunnels
May was a very cool, cloudy and wet month, which is having all kinds of repercussions now and into the summer for field crops. Gordon Johnson and Kate Everts talked about ...
May was a very cool, cloudy and wet month, which is having all kinds of repercussions now and into the summer for field crops. Gordon Johnson and Kate Everts talked about ...
Growing up in Uruguay — a country with four cows per every person — Virginia Pravia was immersed in the agriculture industry at an early age. During summers and holidays, Pravia watched as ...
Mechanized agriculture is the process of using agricultural machinery to mechanize work, greatly increasing productivity. In modern times, powered machinery has replaced many jobs formerly carried out by manual labor, ...
Tong Engineering is set to introduce a new Cleaner Loader crop transfer machine to its latest range of vegetable handling equipment, to bring farmers and growers an in-field crop cleaning ...
They grow in some of the world’s most inhospitable conditions. Unlike their pampered domesticated relatives in order to survive they’ve needed to adapt on their own to high temperatures, high ...
According to the GAIN report "Poland - Fresh Potatoes and Products. Annual 2015"- published on November 27, 2015 - the 2015 Potato production in Poland dropped 13% compared to last ...
The potato was domesticated together with sweet potato and other Andean crops, possibly up to 7000 years ago, although the natives of South America had already been eating the wild ...
Precision agriculture is already the norm for many arable farms. Modern technological advancements like guidance systems and positioning technology are helping us get the most out of the land. New ...
The National Institute of Agricultural Innovation (INIA), of the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation, launched an effective method to combat the “Andean weevil” that attacks potato crops. This disease in ...
Agritechnica features the new generation of the AVR Puma: the Puma 3. This four-row harvester is the 200th Puma to hit the field. It didn’t start out as the top ...
The U.S. Agency for International Development has awarded Michigan State University (MSU) a $5.8 million cooperative agreement to improve potato production in Bangladesh and Indonesia. The grant supports USAID’s work ...
The Prince Edward Island government is cutting funding to provincially-funded disinfection service, aimed at controlling potato ring rot. The move is expected to impact one full-time job, which is being ...
New Zealand potato growers could gain a new marketing edge thanks to a line of potatoes developed by University of Canterbury researchers. UC Biotechnologists Dr David Leung and Dr Seyedardalan ...
Cambridge Engineered Solutions has introduced PacLite, a new lighter weight, flatwire conveyor belt with variable openings that is ideally suited for potato rock traps. Manufactured using a new proprietary process ...
China’s commitment to the potato was very publicly and internationally demonstrated when it hosted the World Potato Congress, July 28-30. There were more than 900 delegates at the congress, two ...
In recent years, snack pellets have become increasingly popular. As a result, the technology for their processing has become more and more sophisticated. Potato snack pellets come in many different ...
The company Rusbana Engineering, Moscow-based, is the new distributor appointed by Herbert Engineering, for Russia and surrounding countries. Herbert Engineering designs, supplies and installs processing lines, as well as individual processing ...
Sponge and felt dryers from Herbert Engineering, the leaders in root crop handling systems, have been integrated into fresh pack plants in Britain and Europe, with excellent results both in ...
The better the peeling process, the better the potato and, possibly, the wastage can be reduced, too. But wastage is not everything, it’s the degree of cleanliness that is just ...
Officials from Oregon and Washington are working on an upcoming joint trade mission to expand export opportunities for Northwest potatoes. “We are conducting a trade mission to the Philippines and ...
In the aftermath of last year’s difficult growing and harvesting season, almost one in ten of Britain’s potato growers decided to call it a day, but, according to Rob Clayton ...
The United States Potato Board (USPB), the nation’s potato marketing organization and the central organizing force in implementing programs that will increase demand for potatoes, named produce industry veteran, Blair ...
The North-Western European Potato Growers (NEPG) has issued an updated estimate of planted area for the 2013 crop (at the start of July). Based on first estimates and survey work ...
It may surprise many people to learn that China has been the world's largest producer of potatoes since 1993. But it should not be entirely unexpected. The Chinese diet has ...