Tag: Potato growers

Two potato producers in neighbouring provinces experienced very different years in 2021 but shared a similar desire to help others ...

O’Shea Farms from Piltown, Co Kilkenny have joined forces with Meadowfresh Foods in Tallow, Co Waterford to market and supply ...

Some potato farms in Aroostook County, Maine have histories dating back to the early 1800s. Daniel Corey’s operation is not ...

The Canadian Potato Council runs a program with groups across the country to test potato varieties locally. Potato growers in ...

Our Market is a consumer-driven market concept that has come over from France. In the Netherlands, the initiative will soon start ...

This article appears in the December 2021 issue of Potato Grower SouthWind Farms has been around for 21 years, but brothers Robert ...

This article appears in Potato Grower’s 2021 Idaho Annual issue. Conn Crapo is Potato Grower’s 2021 Idaho Seed Grower of the Year ...

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

Having the vantage point of 40 plus years to look out over the potato industry, one could expect many changes. Some ...

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

The ground-breaking organisation first set up by Scottish seed potato growers will celebrate its 50th anniversary this weekend.

After one of the wettest summers in recent decades, potato crop conditions at the end of the harvest period were ...

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

It was supposed to be for one year only when the Prince Edward Island provincial government placed a moratorium on ...

Growers want processors to offer higher prices to compensate for increased fertiliser costs.

Three keys to making the plan work

The thinktank Frej hosted an event on the 27th of September where farmers, politicians, organizations and students joined to share ...

A combination of adequate water supplies, the long, sunny, summer growing season, and winters too cold for most insect pests ...

The Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine in Ireland, Senator Pippa Hackett, has welcomed ...

As reported on the official website of the HZPC company: "The future begins with the earthTogether with our clients, we ...

Irish Food Board (Bord Bia), the Agriculture and Food Development Authority (Teagasc), the Irish Farmers Association (IFA), and the Department ...

Imagine this scenario for the future – labor shortages will turn the recruitment of service personell into a real challenge. ...

Iran has a very conducive environment for the production of seed potatoes: Hamadan, Isfahan and Ardebil regions have fertile clay ...

There is an active development of agriculture in Iran, including potatoes. This is confirmed by a visit to seed potato ...

Prepping your potatoes for storage depends on smart harvesting and effective cleaning. Engineers at Lockwood Manufacturing in the US say everyone knows ...