Aardappelrassen en pootaardappelen

september 28, 2020

Milestone Digital Transformation Agrico: New Website Live

For potato cooperative Agrico 2020/2021 is the season of its digital transformation. The first major milestone in this process is the new www.agrico.nl website that was launched last week.

The National Potato Council of Kenya and Corteva Agriscience have embarked on plans to increase yield among smallholder farmers from 7 tonnes to 20 tonnes per hectare.

september 25, 2020

National Potato Council of Kenya partners with Corteva Agriscience aiming to increase yields

The partnership targets to introduce new technologies and train smallholder farmers on how to improve potato yields through the use of quality seeds, resilient varieties, disease management and post-harvest management.

september 23, 2020

Meijer Potato celebrates its 100th anniversary

This year Meijer Potato celebrates its 100-year anniversary with staff, customers and seed potato growers.

september 23, 2020

Pilot project could make growing potatoes cheaper, more accessible in the North

Northern Farm Training Institute will test a range of potato varieties to see which do best in Northern Canada. This pilot project could approved earlier this month could improve food security.

Incertidumbre en la patata, que tiene demanda la de lavado pero están atascadas las de saco.

september 21, 2020

Incertidumbre en la patata española, que tiene demanda la de lavado pero están atascadas las de saco.

La campaña de patata va 'bastante adelantada' en Castilla y León, según describe Eduardo Arroyo, presidente de Appacyl. Los calores de agosto han secado los cultivos antes de lo previsto.

september 19, 2020

Cavendish Farms opens Potato Research Centre in New Annan, PEI

Cavendish Farms’ new Potato Research Centre in New Annan, Prince Edward Island officially opened on September 17, 2020 with a ribbon cutting with Dennis King, Premier of Prince Edward Island, and company officials.

Plant seed potatoes now and you’ll be digging up your own buried treasure in just a few months.

september 17, 2020

Potatoes from plot to plate: how to grow the perfect spuds in your New Zealand backyard

While in the Northern hemisphere we are harvesting potatoes and getting ready for winter, this is not the case in the Southern hemisphere. This article offers tips on how to grow potatoes in your New Zealand backyard.

september 17, 2020

AHDB: Taking a look at UK's chipping markets from a supply and demand perspective.

With the coronavirus pandemic hitting the UK domestic potato trade, we have estimated a 1% drop year-on-year in the GB potato area for 2020/21, with the provisional area standing at 119Kha.

Potatoes are offloaded at the Folson Farms washplant in East Grand Forks.

september 09, 2020

Potato Harvest is Underway in the Red River Valley as Red Potato Prices Tumble

The potato harvest is now underway in the Red River Valley. Yields are all over the board ranging from poor to excellent. Most of the fields with poor yields were damaged by heavy rain that fell on, and around June 30th.

All Hail the Rise of the Climate - Smart Potato

september 08, 2020

Potato Potential - in all climates

The potential of the potato has only just begun to be realized. Some 368 million metric tons of potatoes were harvested globally in 2019, as people from Vietnam to Kenya, the Peruvian Andes to Rwanda produced a wide variety of the root vegetable, helping feed an estimated 1.3 billion people who rely on them as a staple food.

ntrevista con Juan Manuel Coello, director de operaciones de Patatas Meléndez.

september 07, 2020

Patatas Meléndez: 'Queremos alargar la campaña de Castilla y León hasta febrero-marzo'

Entre los proyectos que Patatas Meléndez tiene en materia de innovación figura el de alargar la campaña de Castilla y León hasta los meses de febrero y marzo. Entrevista con Juan Manuel Coello, director de operaciones de Patatas Meléndez.

september 04, 2020

Ample supplies of medium and small size potatoes on the market in Idaho

The Idaho potato harvest has started. For Eagle Eye Produce, the harvest kicked off in central Idaho during the first week of August with their russet potatoes.

augustus 27, 2020

Belgian Potato Industry Trade show Interpom postponed till 2021

The Potato Industry Trade Show Interpom that was scheduled later this year in Kortrijk Xpo (Belgium) is postponed until November 2021

augustus 24, 2020

World Potato Congress Inc. Recognizes Zaotong as 'Potato Plateau Seed Potato Capital of the World'

On August 18, 2020, a meeting was held in Zhaotong city, China. World Potato Congress (WPC) President Roman Cools, Dr. Peter VanderZaag, WPC Secretary and Brian Douglas, General Manager attended virtually.

augustus 24, 2020

La patata de carne blanca es la 'top' y se cultiva en Salamanca

Yolanda Medina, presidenta de la Interprofesional, mantiene que este año se vende hasta a 30 céntimos el kilo porque la única ecuación es 'oferta-demanda'.

RPE launches a new red-skin potato variety, RPE Golden Red

augustus 24, 2020

New potato variety, RPE Golden Red , will debut on store shelves this fall

This fall RPE launches a new red-skin potato variety, RPE Golden Red. They will be available in a three-pound, poly light-blocker, bilingual bag.

augustus 20, 2020

C. Meijer BV rebranded Meijer Potato

Op 17 augustus 2020 gepresenteerd aardappelveredelaar Meijer Potato haar nieuwe corporate identity en bedrijfsverhaal. De nieuwe corporate identity van Meijer Potato zal zichtbaar worden op alle communicatiemiddelen en locaties.

augustus 19, 2020

PotatoEurope zal worden gehouden op 1 en 2 september 2021 op de locatie van Wageningen University & Research in Lelystad

Wageningen University & Research en DLG Benelux hebben een contract getekend voor het houden van PotatoEurope 2021 op de locatie van Wageningen Plant Research in Lelystad.