Tag: potato planting

Potato growing in Estonia has seen a three-fold decline in the past decade

The right time to start spraying is crucial against late blight. Resistance management when using fungicides is also moving more and more into focus. Many funds will expire after 2021. The drought ...

During April 2021 we experienced cold dry conditions which haven’t been seen in some years. Moving into May much of the country has received, or is about to receive, some ...

demonstrate the tolerance of some varieties after having subjected them to a water deficit

Many growers experienced an April to rival one of the driest on record (1938 and 1974 both saw less than 15mm of rain on average in the UK). Potato growers ...

South African potato industry is appealing to stakeholders to form more partnerships to drive growth and transformation

The timing basics needed for successful weed control in potatoes can be thought of in three manners: There are three “windows of opportunity” for herbicide application timing in potatoes.Within each ...

The start of the potato growing season is going according to plan in large parts of the country, unlike last year. In large parts of the country, by far most of ...

Our Fight Against Blight programme started in 2004 and since then ‘blight scouts’ have sent in over 10,000 samples of potentially blight infested potato plants for genotyping. Each year the ...

One veteran potato farmer welcomes Wednesday's potato boost, but questions whether the new land can get up to speed by the province's self-imposed deadline next year. "It's not just a ...

new digital tool helps to improve the biological performance of crop protection products in grain, maize, rapeseed, beet and potatoes

With the exception of the southwest, the start of the potato growing season is late. But the soil structure is fine, unlike last year. On the South Holland islands, three quarters ...

Growing potatoes in the North may not be an endless series of bad news

Potatoes are a great crop to have in a field unless they pop up in years when they aren’t supposed to be there, begging the question

this very welcome trend to gain even greater momentum, once new season crops for 2021 are available.

Green manures are used to the maximum. A building plan with potatoes, onions

A cross country check-in on what to expect for potato diseases this growing season.

The Nakuru in Kenya county government plans to strengthen its collaboration with the Dutch government in promoting new technologies and addressing shortages of certified seed in the potato subsector. According ...

wooden chimney in the box ensures optimal aeration and less work when pre-sprouting seed potato

P.E.I. potato growers estimates cost of wireworm damage to crops at $5 million a year

Just how much does the space between your rows affect your potatoes

working with his two sons to transfer the family’s potato farm

We have never planted this early

verticillium wilt is a serious disease that diminishes quality and causes significant yield loss by reducing tuber size.

Heat during the growing season is causing disease problems for potato growers

why some fertilizers increase the likelihood of bruising and the perfect temperature for potato processing.

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 follow the guidelines on its safe use.

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 be added to the AHDB Nutrient Management Guide (RB209).

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 a pH costs yield.

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 buyers are waiting to lock-in contracts,

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

The obligation to introduce barriers in ridge cultivation stands in the way of integrated cultivation of seed potatoes. That is why Agriculture Minister Carola Schouten must scrap this measure.

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

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 GDP and generates many jobs.

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, cost-effective tool for controlling early dormancy break in potatoes.

The challenges facing agriculture are becoming bigger, more complex and challenging. To meet them, you need more than a new tractor; you need a partner who enables you to make ...

Potato late blight, caused by Phytophthora infestans oomycete, is the most important disease of potato cultivation in the world. This disease affects both leaves, stems and tubers, reducing the yield ...

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” Scotland’s potato industry within 30 years. Potato cyst nematode (PCN) ...

A farmer in Manitoba, who experimented with direct seeding and minimal tillage in a potato field, harvested a crop statistically on-par with his conventionally planted fields. An experiment to try ...

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