Tag: storage control

Tips on how to use ventilation systems in your potato storage. Keeping your potato crop in the best possible condition while in storage isn’t always easy. At a potato storage management ...

Diseases such as black dot and silver scurf often are not visible at harvest or early storage; they typically show up one to three months after tubers were placed in ...

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

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

Storing potatoes long-term is often challenging and this is especially so if there is a reliance on ambient ventilation

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

pay more attention to the quality of the storage process at the growers

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

Norfolk farm has invested £263,000 in a hi-tech new storage building to keep its potato

As a result, sprout inhibitors for good safe storage are in the spotlight again.

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.

AHDB will present the latest results from its Strategic Potato (SPot) farm

A number of potato growers from Flevoland have set up a study group together with Omnivent, on the storage of chips potatoes. Cor van Maanen and Nik Grubben, Head of Research ...

Emmeloord - Over the past two years, Olaf van Campen from Adama has gained knowledge of an electronic potato. This is an invention of Solentum. We ask Van Campen five questions. Olaf, ...

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 ...