Tag: growers

Harvest Pride Project Sets New Standards for Potato Cultivation and Sustainability In a strategic move towards advancing sustainability in the ...

#UKPotatoSector #PotatoShortage #BrexitImpact #ChallengesAndOpportunities #SeedPotatoProduction #FreshProduceTrade #ResilienceInAgriculture The UK potato sector faced significant challenges in recent years due to various ...

Discover the story of STET, a leading potato company based in Holland. Since 1973, STET has been excelling in the ...

Sustainable Vegetable Systems (SVS) is a $7.5 million dollar multi-tiered research programme, funded by New Zealand’s Ministry for Primary Industries, led ...

Proposals will be counter-productive, new submission states. PNZ (Potatoes New Zealand) and Vegetables NZ recently made a combined submission expressing ...

Across Europe, on the fresh markets, growers have been pushing for a movement to avoid storage costs. Prices have been ...

Supplies of fresh potatoes in Tasmania’s supermarkets are low, with a major grower forced to temporarily halt harvesting as weather conditions ...

Due to the present fertilizer shortage and rising production costs, efficient nitrogen fertilization is becoming more and more important. Years ...

A combination of the high summer temperatures and growers being unable to apply maleic hydrazide means potatoes coming into stores ...

Heavy storms (25 to 60mm) have caused some hope in France, Germany, Belgium, and up through Eastern/Central Holland, but agronomists ...

New awards scheme will correspond with SIMA FOR its 2022 edition, SIMA, the international exhibition of solutions and technologies for ...

When entomologist Andy Jensen visits with potato growers about insects and diseases that can cause significant damage to their crops, ...

Growers urged to attend meetings to shape future of sector A GROUP of nine seed potato growers from across Scotland, ...

The ongoing post-Brexit ban on selling seed potatoes to the valuable European market continues to anger and frustrate Scottish growers ...

Brexit could lead to a significant shortage of potatoes for Irish consumers by 2023, experts have warned. It makes sense ...

Teagasc, The Agriculture and Food Development Authority of the Republic of Ireland, has urged potato growers to contact seed producers ...

United Potato Growers of Canada has hired a new General Manager, Victoria Stamper, of Mascouche, Quebec, a community just north ...

Rising costs prompt debate GROWERS in the EU are debating whether to continue growing potatoes, or whether to replace the ...

The large fire at a potato processing plant in Maine is expected to have ripple effects across Maine’s agriculture industry. ...

Sustainable agriculture scheme seeks participants BAYER Crop Science is looking for "forward-thinking" UK potato growers to participate in a bioinsecticide ...

A weather-based decision support system that originated 15 years ago in the tree fruit orchards of Washington state has branched ...

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

Around Uetze and Burgdorf towns in Germany, the first early potatoes are now seeded in the still cold sandy soil, ...

Three Scottish National Party (SNP) MPs have written to the UK Government and the EU Vice-President urging both sides to remove ...

Take some time to consider how these trends will affect your day-to-day business in the years ahead:

This year, the potato growers from North Rhine-Westphalian (NRW) in Germany, harvested 1.92m tons, a total which is 13.3% higher ...

The Canadian Potato Production for 2021 has been estimated by Statistics Canada to reach 6,891,024 tons, showing a YOY (Year-On-Year) ...

SPEAKERS at the recent CropTec Show in Peterborough explored the latest thinking on soil health, crop nutrition and crop protection ...

YIELD alone is no longer the driver of economic success and growers need to seek a balance between quality yield ...

The AHDB Petitioners – vegetable, flower and potato growers in the UK who voted to abolish a statutory levy on ...

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

Canadian growers harvested a record potato crop in 2021, as production rose 18.2% year over year to 123.1 million hundredweight, on account of increases ...

Wet weather and rising fertiliser prices are forcing farmers to rethink their potato plantings, with tonnages expected to be down significantly ...

The Northern Plains Potato Growers Association (NPPGA) serves more than 200 grower members and 250 potato associate members throughout northwest Minnesota and ...

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

The fertilizer prices are at a record level. Still, there is nothing to buy. What can farmers do? Strategies and their consequences Farmers ...

The United Potato Growers of Canada report on the 2021 Harvest as it is in its final stages. Most provinces (with ...

The latest report coming from the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) shows that across Europe increased input costs being faced by ...

THE incessant rains and floods in Uttar Pradesh, India’s largest potato producer, has left farmers, especially in the potato belt ...

The hot, dry, and smoky growing season has left some Idaho potato farmers bracing for a poor crop. Randy Hardy ...

UK crops are likely to be in higher demand after floods affected European growers, with supplies for frozen chips particularly ...

High heat in the early summer can lead to reduced yield and deformed potatoes on farmers, said Washington State Potato ...

Farmers are becoming increasingly dependent on data and software. This has its downsides, such as the discussion about the right ...

He didn’t grow up in Idaho. He didn’t even begin his farming career in Idaho

The acreage also appears to be declining in the rest of northwestern Europe, with estimates suggesting a decrease of three ...

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

our approximately 570 South African potato growers, have managed to produce 12 months per year, supply fresh potatoes every year.

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

Farmer Bertrand Roussel had no choice. With the crisis, his unsold potatoes would have ended up in the trash

At the request of BO Akkerbouw, Minister Schouten of LNV has declared the Research and Innovation Program and the associated ...