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Improving the reliability of trap cropping to help farmers overcome potato cyst nematode (PCN) pressure, is being investigated as part ...

OVER the last decade, the Innovative Farmers group has launched more than 120 field labs and awarded more than £450,000 ...

Following the rise in prices that has been at the centre of disputes and protests all over Cyprus in recent ...

As reports for The Globe and Mail, after potato wart was detected in two Prince Edward Island fields last fall, Canada quickly ...

The International Potato Center (CIP), the globally active Dutch seed potato company HZPC, and the Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture ...

Potato farmers are warning that growers will walk away from the industry as cost pressures make the staple crop unviable ...

Pests and diseases destroy between 20 and 40% of crops globally, and farmers in developing countries are especially vulnerable to ...

Field professional Leo Rösel has a few tips on how a farmer can save diesel with little tricks.

Danny Murphy once paid $10 for a bag of soybean seed, 18 to 30 cents per gallon for diesel, $200 ...

Gerald Maters (26) from Niekerk (De Marne), brand new chairman of the Gronings Agrarische Youth Contact (GrAJK) was elected 5 ...

Mallorcan potato farmers have managed to save their crop from the deep freeze when temperatures fell below zero last month. ...

The National Potato Council and KFC in Kenya have identified the Markies potato variety as a suitable variety that farmers in that ...

An innovative method of controlling a range of damaging crop diseases using native, beneficial soil bacteria has emerged from a ...

Uncertainty in the Dutch agricultural sector has a major impact on the future plans of Dutch farmers. A trend study by ...

The winners of the CeresAwards 2021 are optimistic about the new year.

There are no statistics on the richest farmers in Germany. And they didn't make it onto Forbes magazine's list of the ...

After 20 years of successful management, potato wart has closed the U.S. border again. P.E.I. farmers are five days into ...

In 2019, PepsiCo partnered with the US Agency for International Development (USAID) under the Women’s Global Development and Prosperity (W-GDP) ...

Rural Canada needs more people. Towns need support workers at the seniors’ home, a parts manager for the Case IH ...

In an op-ed written by NCGA CEO Jon Doggett, he says fertilizer executives are bringing in climbing profits at the ...

Growing shortages of crop protection and sharply rising prices are signs of the next supply crisis.

Mary Brown’s is showing it’s buds with those who make spuds, with a new campaign that champions Manitoba farmers. According to ...

The 'Part-time job at the farmer' campaign aims to make young people enthusiastic about a part-time job at an agricultural ...

The fertilizers prices have not been so high for many years. But while grain prices are falling again, the arable farmers ...

Farmers could be offered exit payments of up to £100,000 to help them leave the industry as part of a ...

As a historic drought ravages farms and ranches throughout the Klamath Basin on the California-Oregon border there are visible signs ...

The Canadian government is providing up to $21.4 million to cover about 2,000 youth jobs in agriculture, the federal government ...

Instead of his traditional Pieper competition, Harry Schreuder of arable farm Harrys Farm in Swifterbant, Flevoland, is organizing a Pieper ...

Harvest season is well underway for some crops, but there is growing concern not all those crops will make it to market. The problem ...

One veteran potato farmer welcomes Wednesday's potato boost, but questions whether the new land can get up to speed by ...

Are they broadening their diet and taking a bite out your potato profits? Ground squirrels and voles cause yield losses ...

Rising commodity prices offer the potential for higher revenues and greater profits. It may also bring increasing costs if prices ...

we are facing serious challenges in the use of our land and the distribution of space

entire cohort of growers has not been recognised by the Covid support schemes put in place for the potato sector

The pandemic and dry weather have pushed Canadian potato stocks down

US phosphate industry has been materially injured by imports of phosphate fertilizers from Morocco and Russia

ministry acknowledges that the MOT exemption will be 'difficult to implement and enforce'

have been named among Canada's top 50 agricultural leaders

publish a 36-page document called The Real Dirt on Farming in the Classroom

You get the maximum benefit of Northern Vigor

Recently released H-2A program data reveals some interesting impacts of the global COVID-19 pandemic

Using the example of a small village

The nation's farming leader and experts in European agriculture and trade will be among the guests in a series of ...

Four areas that are often left out of breakeven costs

The number of arable farms with a successor is highest in Flevoland.

Learn how to avoid these frustrating and deal-breaking mistakes Yes, recruiting members for your team is extremely difficult. But before ...

Farming in the north-west of Scotland can be tough enough given the somewhat challenging weather conditions, but the right machinery ...

Dutch agricultural companies have good access to government financing. Only 2 to 7 percent of the funding demand is not met, ...

Although we are nearing the end of a uniquely testing year, British farmers will have more challenges to face in 2021 says ...

THESE FAMILY-OWNED FARMLAND ENTERPRISES DEMONSTRATE RESILIENCE AND RESOURCEFULNESS. Who operates the largest working farms in the U.S. and what do ...