The Indian Council for Agricultural Research’s Central Tuber Crop Research Institute (CTCRI) in Thiruvananthapuram has established frontline demonstration-cum-seed villages for high-yielding Chinese potato at Kuthapanjan and Rajangapuram in Tenkasi district
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 Plant Technology, which produces machines for potato cultivation. The Opti Weeder ...
The LaJoie family has always been farmers—at least for as many generations as anyone cares to mention. But they haven’t always grown potatoes in northern Maine; that’s only been going on ...
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 competitive ability of the potato crop. Competition from early season ...
Growing potatoes with excellent taste characteristics was the starting point for Jeroen Klompe’s eight-year journey to improve his soil, and his management of it within a potato rotation. Farming 368ha ...
Four and five generations on, August’s descendants now own and operate Heartland Farms, which has become one of the largest and most innovative potato and vegetable operation in the U.S.
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 (PGRs), but not the PGRs you might first guess. Most ...
Start the sowing campaign of potato in Spain and one of the doubts recurring each year is: What variety of seed grow?. As we have mentioned on previous occasions, there are a lot ...
For more than 50 years, Lindsay has been a pioneer provider of irrigation and water management solutions. From the strength and durability of Zimmatic pivot systems to the intelligence and ...
The Row-FiX Space builds on the success of the concept with backfilling and mechanical weed control, only with a free passage eighteen centimeters higher than the current Row-Fix
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 would snap away early die complex. Widely considered the most ...
Your fields may be covered in snow right now, but we all know that a potato grower’s work never truly ends. Like it or not, planting season will be upon ...
After the cultivation of starch potatoes in 2021, the Dutch Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA) has identified wart disease on four agricultural plots in the northeast of the ...
Having the vantage point of 40 plus years to look out over the potato industry, one could expect many changes. Some were not even predictable.
Scientists have said that there is a need for effective ways to cope with a deadly disease dubbed “Potato Bacterial Wilt (PBW) Disease” that continues to affect Irish Potato farmers. According to ...
The economy is raising more than just prices as farmers question how to manage fertilizer investments in 2022. For Helena Agri-Enterprises, LLC, the answer lies beneath the surface. Soil health ...
It was supposed to be for one year only when the Prince Edward Island provincial government placed a moratorium on high capacity wells for irrigation in 2001. Instead, it lasted ...
In general, the peasants value rainfall positively since they have recharged the aquifers It never rains to everyone's liking, although this time it seems that most farmers are satisfied with ...
A combination of adequate water supplies, the long, sunny, summer growing season, and winters too cold for most insect pests to survive makes Colorado’s San Luis Valley in the southern ...
Whether carbohydrates are sent to the leaves or tubers depends largely on plant hormones, which regulate all aspects of plant development.
Here, you’ll find several precision Ag products that will give you a leg up by providing a deeper look at your farm, your crops and your practices.
Anniversaries mark moments in time to take stock of accomplishments and reflect on the path traveled. But they also inspire us to look forward to see what has yet to ...
Grimme GL 430, GB 430 Grimme offers a wide range of potato planters : 10 spoon models and 4 belt models. Spoon models range from 2- to 8-row; belt - from 2- to 4-row. Last spring, profi ...
Proper season-long soil moisture is the key to maximizing tuber yield, quality and grower return.
Not all robust potato varieties will survive this year when it comes to phytophthora resistance
From potato planting to row closure is a busy time for growers. It’s also a busy time for weeds. Getting the herbicides on at the right time and linking up ...
ADAPT asked for the farmers’ perception of climate change, their experiences concerning its impact on potato production, and their need for adapted potato varieties.
Due to the wet spring, the last potatoes were not planted until the end of May.
As the Magic Valley region in southern Idaho prepares for potentially record-setting heat this week, farmers, potato researchers and dairy scientists are all voicing concerns. The National Weather Service has ...
We've been irrigation the potatoes intensively for several weeks now, with increasingly tight shifts
Canada’s potato crop should be larger this year following the pandemic drop
Mechanical weed control in potatoes and beets is possible, but you have to be on top of it all the time.
The potato is one of the plants with a high potassium demand. This element is taken up in significant amounts, affecting both the size and quality of tubers, and increasing plant ...
After conducting experiments with treatments to improve the behavior of a Creole potato crop under conditions of water deficit
Two years ago, a team of potato scientists and researchers from across Canada launched a comprehensive study aimed at reducing the impact of Potato Early Dying (PED) disease — a ...
The relatively wet spring has a different impact on the companies of the NPPL participants. This is apparent from a telephone tour of seven arable and dairy farms. For NPPL participant ...
Potato cultivation has vigor and health in Castilla y León, and points out ways in terms of quality, with a uniform tuberization.
Anselm Claassen in Vierhuizen (Gr.) is using a new planter this season for the variable planting of part of his seed potatoes.
mancozeb also contains manganese and zinc as an extra added value on top of the fungicidal effect
In an effort to increase agricultural productivity and limit waste, a team of researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HU)’s Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment ...
A good ridge provides a lot of space for tubers produced in the tuberization process, which is why the most popular ridge spacing in Poland is 75 cm
Nicolás Serna is 74 years old and has been growing potatoes all his life.
This is the philosophy of the seed house HZPC , a Dutch multinational leader in the production of seed potatoes.
our approximately 570 South African potato growers, have managed to produce 12 months per year, supply fresh potatoes every year.
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