Tag: potato diseases or defects

The covenant for the cultivation and sale of robust potato varieties is spreading across Europe. The United Kingdom, Belgium and France ...

Canada suspended P.E.I. potato exports to the U.S. last fall after fungus was detected in 2 fields Canadian and U.S. ...

Dr. Rashmi Singh, Scientist DST launching the AI based Mobile App developed by Research Scholar of Chandigarh University Amit Verma ...

As progeny he usually opts for a winter grain after a nitrate-sensitive main crop such as potatoes.

Business-minded growers looking to push yields and move beyond status quo potato production are increasingly turning to plant growth regulators ...

 Weed pressure was low this year and damage from nematodes was not too bad. Next year, the roles may be reversed ...

RESEARCH RESULTS OF DEMO FIELDS PROMISING - ORGANIC SECTOR WANTS TO SWITCH 100% TO ROBUST VARIETIES The robust potato varieties ...

If potato producers could snap their fingers to solve the most costly and frustrating production challenge they face, almost all ...

After the cultivation of starch potatoes in 2021, the Dutch Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA) has identified wart ...

Drones can help potato growers quickly detect alternaria. This was stated by Ruben van de Vijver of the Institute for Agricultural, ...

Diseases such as black dot and silver scurf often are not visible at harvest or early storage; they typically show ...

According to French researchers, tripling organic farms by 2030 costs less than subsidising pesticides

Canadian Food Inspection Agency recently shut down border to P.E.I. fresh potatoes exports Two P.E.I. potato producers say measures taken ...

University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) scientist Johan Johan Desaeger believes an integrated strategy is the ...

Businesses and residents in Kensington, P.E.I., are already starting to feel the effects of the U.S. border being closed to ...

During the event, one farmer asked: “Can a soil test help determine the need for a fungicide application, and does ...

When it comes to reporting about potato virus Y (PVY), it’s a good news, bad news kind of story.

The results on the main BASF trial field with Allstar confirm the positive results of previous seasons. But the fungicide's benefits ...

Single Phytophthora-resistant potato varieties in particular did not have an easy time this year. The fungal pressure was so high and ...

Scientists have said that there is a need for effective ways to cope with a deadly disease dubbed “Potato Bacterial Wilt (PBW) ...

For decades, the University of Maine has devoted valuable agricultural research to studying how to improve potato crops, a central ...

Potato viral diseases can be difficult to identify from leaf symptoms alone. The symptoms can vary depending on the virus ...

Not all robust potato varieties will survive this year when it comes to phytophthora resistance

Looking ahead to the next 50 years, potato researchers and farmers have significant concerns about producing enough food under the stressors of ...

Wire needles are a growing problem in potatoes. In more and more places damage is found in the crops in the ...

The sanitary strategy begins with the soil work and the choice of the potato variety. It is convenient to analyze possible ...

Scientists from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mandi, have developed a computational model for automated disease detection in potato ...

Can brown rot be spread through the roots of the potato plant? That is the central question in a study that ...

Eugenia Banks of the Ontario Potato Board has created a resource on late blight, updated for the 2021 growing season.

A variety trial in potato was set up in Lennik as part of the Potato Agricultural Center. The aim is ...

After conducting experiments with treatments to improve the behavior of a Creole potato crop under conditions of water deficit

Farmer Leonid Kichigin reaps high yields annually, and now he intends to provide the region with virus-free potato seeds. This year, ...

Two years ago, a team of potato scientists and researchers from across Canada launched a comprehensive study aimed at reducing ...

rable farmers are increasingly and earlier encountering the Colorado potato beetle in potato plants.

Over her years working in the P.E.I. potato industry, Mary Kay Sonier has become everyone’s go-to person.

Following a 10-month hiatus due to COVID-19, AUSVEG’s Alan Nankivell has resumed his role as the National Tomato- Potato Psyllid ...

Rising temperatures resulting from climate change is exposing more potato crops to the damaging extremes of heat stress more frequently.

Colruyt Group goes very far when it comes to improving the quality of potatoes.

The right time to start spraying is crucial against late blight. Resistance management when using fungicides is also moving more and ...

During April 2021 we experienced cold dry conditions which haven’t been seen in some years. Moving into May much of ...

Our Fight Against Blight programme started in 2004 and since then ‘blight scouts’ have sent in over 10,000 samples of ...

“Data has been passed to key partners across Europe to support integrated pest management approaches to blight control” Plant scientists ...

Yi Wang, Assistant Professor & Extension Potato and Vegetable Production Specialist, University of Wisconsin Madison-Over the last six months, I ...

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

We want to know which conditions ensure the growth of populations of insects, such as bean spider mites, so that ...

Measures against brown rot in the provinces of Antwerp and Limburg

Three academic experts, including Richard E. Goodman from the Food Allergy Research and Resource Program, shed light on defeating late ...

Cornell-led study shows that global farming productivity is 21% lower than it could have been without climate change

The West Flemish family business Jolie recently purchased two belt unloaders from Van der Peet in Nieuwkoop. Jolie trades potatoes. The company ...

new bio-stimulant shown to be effective in helping potato crops cope with heat stress is available for use this season