Tag: problems in storage

The skyrocketing energy prices in 2022 are a huge challenge for potato growers. After all, ensuring good storage conditions in storage areas with the aid of fans and cooling installations ...

The intricacies of conveyor belting, however, which play an important role in a seamless storage process, are much lesser known and understood.

maintaining optimal temperature and humidity conditions in the storage room seems to be the most reasonable solution.

Engie's new energy-positive drying and storage process is already yielding good results in the Netherlands and Germany.

This season we are receiving a lot of reports of high levels of softening, dehydration and compression damage from potato store managers

bumper potato harvest has been falling on the growers

A ‘ban’ on the use of CIPC for potato growers in the EU has the potato industry on both sides of the pond concerned.

There is generally pressure for potato store managers to closely monitor carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in the industry

tubers compromised by any form of stress start pushing sprouts far earlier in the storage season

1,4 SEED is the only dormancy-extending option available to Canadian seedstock producers

Due to the increasing freezing cold, the temperature above potatoes or onions in storage can drop quickly, if the air above is not heated.

The Haanstra partnership in Luttelgeest (NOP) is fully committed to the long-term storage of their ware potatoes.

Due to the ban on CIPC, the storage of potatoes is more expensive than ever. With the current low prices, it has become unaffordable to keep free potatoes germ-free. This is the ...

The National Potato Council of Kenya (NPCK) has identified transport and potato farmers as NPCK as the main challenges facing potato farmers. Failure to comply with the 50kg law in ...

While temperature is probably the most important potato storage concern, another important step in storing potatoes is ensuring adequate relative humidity levels in the storage shed. Relative humidity is the ...

Optimal storage practices start in the field and can hinge on a variety of factors and conditions, both with the tubers and inside their storage environment.  As we’ve seen this ...

Potato growers are facing an increasing challenge. The changing climate has long required a new approach to potato storage. Since the 2020 harvest has banned the germ inhibitor chlorpropham, a different approach ...