Tag: potato planting

Polysulphate research from Dr. Carl Rosen shows an increase in total AND marketable yields when compared to grower standard practice ...

Silicon, the world’s second most abundant element, can increase yield, improve soil health, strength plants and improve disease response, suggests ...

Potatoes demand adequate sulfur levels for nitrogen uptake, chlorophyll production, tuber development, stress and pest resistance, carbohydrate generation, amino acid ...

Over the years, researchers have amassed an abundance of data comparing the pros and cons of whole and cut seed. ...

According to current regulations, the cultivation of potatoes is possible according to a crop rotation of at least 1:3. In a ...

Last summer, the Maas flooded the entire company of the Van den Eertwegh partnership. A violent event, the wounds of which ...

There is little information on the impact of nozzle type under a dense potato crop canopy. There is a popular ...

Using these fumigants to control soil-borne diseases had positive effects on the crop beyond disease control. Total and marketable yield ...

Precision agriculture practices involve more precise seeding, irrigation, fertilization, and pesticide use in order to optimize crop production for the ...

Potato pink eye is a disorder that often starts with pink, water-soaked areas around the eyes of the tuber — ...

Aerial imagery aids diagnosis for Nielson, an agronomist for Walters Produce in Newdale, Idaho, making his scouting more efficient.

Many practitioners consider using irrigation to protect their crops from drought. Getting started with irrigation is not worth it for every ...

KFC imports potatoes from Egypt. The restaurant says the country observes set standards that improve the potato quality, something the Kenyan farmers don’t ...

Herbicides are an important weed management tool for agriculture. The use of herbicides in multiple crops makes it necessary to ...

The synergy creating the farm’s well-being results from a process of discovery beginning 30 years ago, with Rockey’s uncle.

John Innes Centre team isolated and tested hundreds of strains of Pseudomonas bacteria from the soil of a commercial potato ...

The works, which will contribute to the INIA Potato Genetic Improvement Program, will be carried out by the INIA Remehue ...

Due to the warmer seasons in recent years, arable farmers are more often bothered by pest wireworms. Due to the higher ...

Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute - compared to other years, the intensity of winter is less this time.

The global potato market is tight on supply, and farm-level spud prices for Idaho farmers are up substantially. But so are farm ...

Potato is an important crop in the United States, with a value of $4.02 billion (USDA-NASS 2018). Florida produces one-third ...

Potatoes are one of the two main staple crops in Flagler County and farmers are busy preparing the ground and ...

APH Group will supply storage-, grading and washing installations for three new French fries factories.

In 2004, Steve and Bonnie Mackenzie-Grieve thought they were ready to slow down a little. Their two southern Alberta businesses ...

The Indian Council for Agricultural Research’s Central Tuber Crop Research Institute (CTCRI) in Thiruvananthapuram has established frontline demonstration-cum-seed villages for ...

He wanted to get the most out of the crop with drip irrigation- 15 potato tubers per plant

Wasse Mechanisatie from Hijken (Dr) has become an importer for the Benelux on behalf of the Danish machine builder MRS ...

The LaJoie family has always been farmers—at least for as many generations as anyone cares to mention. But they haven’t ...

If you decide that the benefits of foliar fertilization are worth the cost, here are a few suggestions:

Herbicides are still the main weeds control option

An effective weed management program takes into account the type of weeds present, crop rotation, cultivation, available herbicides, and the ...

Growing potatoes with excellent taste characteristics was the starting point for Jeroen Klompe’s eight-year journey to improve his soil, and ...

Four and five generations on, August’s descendants now own and operate Heartland Farms, which has become one of the largest ...

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

Center pivot fertigation may be the future for potato production.

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

Start the sowing campaign of potato in Spain and one of the doubts recurring each year is: What variety of seed grow?. As ...

For more than 50 years, Lindsay has been a pioneer provider of irrigation and water management solutions. From the strength ...

The Row-FiX Space builds on the success of the concept with backfilling and mechanical weed control, only with a free ...

To experience the effect of a soil scan, we followed this process for more than a year. 

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

Your fields may be covered in snow right now, but we all know that a potato grower’s work never truly ...

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

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

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

The economy is raising more than just prices as farmers question how to manage fertilizer investments in 2022. For Helena ...

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

In general, the peasants value rainfall positively since they have recharged the aquifers It never rains to everyone's liking, although ...

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

Whether carbohydrates are sent to the leaves or tubers depends largely on plant hormones, which regulate all aspects of plant ...