Noticias

Idaho Falls, Idaho-based Wada Farms Marketing Group LLC has taken on potato sales and marketing responsibilities for Worley &McCullough Inc., a grower-shipper in Colorado’s San Luis Valley.

Water abstraction reform is high on the list of challenges the NFU’s Potato Forum will tackle in the next year.

Potato growers could achieve potential savings of more than €450/ha if they used a blight-resistant genetically modified (GM) potato variety instead of a conventional variety.

According to a report from Michigan State University, Botrytis blight is causing problems in potatoes throughout Michigan this season.

Standen-Pearson potato harvester developments continue at a fast pace, with new technology and new machines being introduced due to increasing demand from UK and export markets.

Medipo Agras in the Czech Republic, are potato packers who have recently replaced their old Herbert line with a larger intake grading system.

In August 2002, after many years of cultivation, Potandon Produce L.L.C. introduced the US retail community to its Klondike Rose potato, the first of many new varieties of fresh potatoes that would soon follow.

The problem of glut of potatoes causing heavy losses to farmers can now be reduced drastically as the Central Institute of Post Harvest Engineering and Technology (CIPHET) has standardized a technology for using any quality potatoes for the production of cattle feed of high nutritional value.

Climate change could result in a positive outcome for the potato industry and possibly lead to potatoes becoming one of the top staple crops in the world

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