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Are they broadening their diet and taking a bite out your potato profits? Ground squirrels and voles cause yield losses in crops.
Are they broadening their diet and taking a bite out your potato profits? Ground squirrels and voles cause yield losses in crops.
Pacific Northwest instrumentation manufacturer, Felix Instruments – Applied Food Science, has announced a joint marketing collaboration with Hanna Instruments. Together they will work to promote and integrate each other’s products and services in ...
Potato breeders in Europe are working hard to innovate and create new potato varieties.
Miedema is introducing a new generation of the MC (Miedema Conveyor) series, single and duo belt conveyors. The 80 cm wide trough belt has a high economic capacity of over 130 tons/h ...
new digital tool helps to improve the biological performance of crop protection products in grain, maize, rapeseed, beet and potatoes
Idahoan Foods saw sales of its dehydrated mashed potato products rise during the pandemic as consumers cooked more meals at home. Consumers embraced more time at home by experimenting with ...
Trials are planned for 2022 in three locations as part of a Specialty Crop Research Initiative grant. For potato growers across the U.S., potato virus Y (PVY) is a serious ...
Magid has expanded its line of D-ROC gloves with protection gloves paired with NitriX Grip Technology. The D-ROC GPD820 Lightweight NitriX Palm Coated Work Gloves offer cut protection, touchscreen compatibility, enhanced abrasion resistance ...
Farm inputs are becoming more and more expensive for farmers. This also means that the costs of agricultural production are exploding
Today, April 28, 2021, the Mexican Supreme Court ruled by a unanimous vote of five to zero in favor of overturning a 2017 lower court decision that prevented the Mexican ...
Potatoes SA shares Limpopo Province potato farmer Johan Holtzhausen's story as he details how he had contracted Covid-19 and at the same time faced challenges that his business went through ...
Ways fixation might occur naturally or industrially
Our variety ‘Cayman’ has made it to the list of 'The 20 Most Innovative Plant Varieties of 2020', composed by European Seed
released a study quantifying the extent and impact of drip irrigation issues in agriculture.
Just saying North American potato production has benefited from the efforts of Nora Olsen would be an understatement.
They’ve come a long way, baby. Drying foods like grapes, apricots, dates, figs and plums in the air and sun is one of the oldest ways of preserving food – ...
The Board of Appeal for the Trade and Industry (CBB) has called the NAK back and has canceled a suspension against a seed potato grower. This ruling reinforces the call for ...
Soil pH affects many aspects of crop production, especially nutrient availability. Most of our main field crops like a neutral soil pH from 6-7. Soils with a pH higher than ...
In Russia, #HZPC is using an unconventional strategy to secure its potato trade for the future: in 2019, a small breeding company was set up to provide Russian contract growers ...
Fields and orchards can be wonderful, magical worlds unto themselves You just don’t want their residents – or invaders – to end up in your salad or bag of frozen ...
MGS Machine will introduce the Vortex, a new high-speed tray denester, at their Pack Expo Las Vegas booth #C-4322. The Vortex separates trays, clamshells, flanged lids, tubs and buckets from a nested ...
Brits have bought a veritable mountain of bagged snacks during the pandemic. They’ve tucked into almost 60,000 tonnes more than in 2019. As such, the value of crisps, popcorn, nuts ...
Accurately weigh 0.5-to 50-gram portions at up to 120 per minute using the new Ishida Micro multihead weigher from Heat and Control. Although it takes just 25 percent of the space ...
Rising commodity prices offer the potential for higher revenues and greater profits. It may also bring increasing costs if prices remain at a high level. This is common with inputs ...
Researchers will use artificial intelligence in an attempt to identify nematodes (the destructive kind as well as beneficial) more rapidly and accurately