Stabilizing nitrogen make fertilizing more efficient
Stabilizing nitrogen can help make fertilizing more efficient.
Stabilizing nitrogen can help make fertilizing more efficient.
Relatively good potato prices can currently be hedged on the futures market. Around 1,000 euros more per hectare than on the cash market are definitely possible for resourceful producers.
Ukraine's Potato Cultivation Institute has developed a high-yield new potato variety that can produce up to 100 tons per hectare
This is evident from a recent inventory by Eurofins Agro of three crops: maize, grassland and ware potatoes. Too low a pH costs yield.
Pink rot is an important storage disease of potatoes. Caused by a soil-borne pathogen, Phytopthora erythroseptica, it’s found in potato-growing regions throughout the world. This pathogen thrives in saturated soils, so ...
Contract cut had a major impact on their operation but added that this year’s drought hurt them even more
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
With the COVID-19 pandemic changing by the day, plans for 2021 potato acres are still up in the air as buyers are waiting to lock-in contracts,
In the export figures for Dutch seed potatoes, Belgium is causing a major shift compared to last year.
State statistics on potatoes grown in Ukraine do not match the actual figures and are exaggerated by about two-thirds, according to Serhiy Rybalko, vice-president of the Ukrainian Association of Potato ...
Results are in from the 2020 field-scale trial, which hoped to create a side-by-side comparison of conventional spring tillage and direct seeded potatoes.
At the end of 2020, the Ukrainian Association of Potato Producers warned that without potato imports in the current marketing year, Ukraine is unlikely to meet the needs of the ...
A Commission composed (as from 1/1/2021 onwards) out of 10 persons, of which 5 active in the potatoes trade and 5 in the potato processing industry, quotes on a weekly ...
potato products stagnated again in many countries, causing grower prices to fall to 66 points in November, 17% lower than in September and 44% lower than a year earlier.
This week, key actors from Georgia’s potato sector convened virtually to discuss ideas to enhance the country’s potato sector. Called the “Georgia Potato Forum,” the meeting focused on ways to develop value chains to improve ...
Ireland’s seed potato sector looks set to get a Brexit shot in the arm.
Only a limited number of specific resistance genes are available for the breeding of phytophthora-resistant potato varieties.
A correct balance between yield and cost is important for the perspective of potato cultivation. This is the conclusion of arable farm managers Mathieu Vrancken of the Boerenbond in Belgium ...
As the dust settles on the Brexit trade deal, the seed potato sector is coming to terms with its mixed fortunes. The news that ware potatoes have been awarded third ...
The nation's farming leader and experts in European agriculture and trade will be among the guests in a series of virtual meetings for Norfolk farmers.
export to 2020 was 786 million, today it does so in more than 7,000 million dollars and takes 11.6% of GDP and generates many jobs.
Four areas that are often left out of breakeven costs
In the spring of 2020, SunRain installed Netafim drip line on a four-acre section of a field
status for seed potatoes and what the industry might do if a resolution is not reached.
Good application is essential in getting the most from maleic hydrazide, which AHDB trials have shown to be a useful, cost-effective tool for controlling early dormancy break in potatoes.