Tag: potato planting

A reduced basic fertilization in the row scored the best financially for potatoes last year

Growers using Nemathorin for the first time this spring to control nematodes in potato crops are being urged to carefully ...

farmers still fear that (part of) their harvest will be lost. "Better give us a lot of snow,"

A new protocol for estimating the determinacy of potato varieties will be released in the next few months and will ...

Stabilizing nitrogen can help make fertilizing more efficient.

Ukraine's Potato Cultivation Institute has developed a high-yield new potato variety that can produce up to 100 tons per hectare

This is evident from a recent inventory by Eurofins Agro of three crops: maize, grassland and ware potatoes. Too low ...

Agronomists need to know stem population to be able to model tuber numbers.

With the COVID-19 pandemic changing by the day, plans for 2021 potato acres are still up in the air as ...

Results are in from the 2020 field-scale trial, which hoped to create a side-by-side comparison of conventional spring tillage and ...

The obligation to introduce barriers in ridge cultivation stands in the way of integrated cultivation of seed potatoes. That is ...

The Danish company MSR Plant Technology markets a potato killing machine that destroys the potato stalks at the base and ...

Dilip from Odisha learnt an innovative method to potato growing using agro-waste, to put an end to stubble burning.

The innovative ErFra VKS pre-sprouting system for potatoes is back in production.

export to 2020 was 786 million, today it does so in more than 7,000 million dollars and takes 11.6% of ...

Grower Jacob Vos from Bant, Flevoland, works in this way and supervises research into shallow tillage from practice.

Good application is essential in getting the most from maleic hydrazide, which AHDB trials have shown to be a useful, ...

The challenges facing agriculture are becoming bigger, more complex and challenging. To meet them, you need more than a new ...

Potato late blight, caused by Phytophthora infestans oomycete, is the most important disease of potato cultivation in the world. This ...

agroforestry project is taking shape in a field of 15 hectares

Potato plants absorb large quantities of potassium (K) throughout the growing season.

A group of farmers and researchers has developed an innovative, sustainable method of tackling a pest that threatens to “annihilate” ...

A farmer in Manitoba, who experimented with direct seeding and minimal tillage in a potato field, harvested a crop statistically ...

At this time of the year and with the increase in cold, agricultural crops are affected by what is called root rot due ...

Potato cultivation takes place mainly in the South Central of Chile (VIII to X regions) in dry conditions (without irrigation) ...

It is common to think that food crops are going to suffer negative effects due to the increase in global ...

People have puzzled for years why pathogen Phytophthora infestens causes the devastating late blight disease, source of the Irish Potato famine, on ...

2020 was, together with 2014, the hottest year since at least 1901, the start of the weather measurements. This is reported ...

Even more than the rest of us, potato growers could be forgiven for wanting to put 2020 in the rear-view ...

URBANA, Ill. – Scientists are getting closer to finding the genes for maleness in waterhemp and Palmer amaranth, two of ...

A self-propelled potato harvester made by Grimme reduces the amount of people needed for harvest. At Steijn Potato Farms in ...

Perfect spray conditions are rare and there are so many factors at play that sometimes the basics get overlooked. The ...

On November 19, the Xunta announced the lifting of the ban on planting potatoes in nine other municipalities in the ...

BREAKING old cycles and farming in a more unpredictable way is necessary to upset the evolutionary response of weeds, according ...

A lot of farm kids—probably a healthy majority—spend a good portion of their youth grumbling about the long hours, the ...

ISLAMABAD: As part of the PepsiCo’s ongoing commitment to sustainability, the company here on Wednesday organised the “Sustainable Farming Programme ...

Wholesale prices for potatoes have decreased sharply over the past week, driving Egypt’s farmers to abandon their crops due to ...

In order to develop agricultural activity, the private company in conjunction with producers and with the support of the Ministry ...

In a recent survey of potato growers completed by Spudman, disease control concerns were highlighted. Growers reported struggling with increased ...

Techniques that fall into the 'straightforward' category are preferred by arable farmers who want to start with precision farming. So they ...

BCPC’s Julian Westaway said, “Having access to the latest pesticide information is vital for all those involved in their use ...

BOZEMAN — Montana State University Extension has a new, free, 40-page color booklet available about diagnosing herbicide injury on plants. “While herbicides ...

In recent years, rising global temperatures have left potato farmers anxious as their crops struggle to survive lengthy dry cycles ...

Calcium plays an important role in in potato quality, production. Cell membrane health is very crucial to the survival and ...

Last week Delphy kicked off the sustainability program 'Innovating the Ugandan potato value chain'. he SDGP program (Sustainable Development Goals ...

A fertiliser program for potatoes growing in sandy soils must balance environmental risk with maximising returns. Coastal sands are naturally ...

The Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA) has discovered an unknown variant of wart disease on the agricultural ...

To equip farmers with this critical knowledge, at the Isinya forum, farmers were taken through crop husbandry practices that guarantees ...

A study completed by an Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) scientist found winter cover crops planted after potatoes can be beneficial ...

Austrian cooperative Rheintaler Feldfrüchte about the new storage capacity Twelve months a year, fresh, regional potatoes, onions and other open ...