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Marc van Rijsselberghe probeert op Texel uit te vinden welke gewassen kunnen groeien in zoute grond en met zout water.

South Canterbury potato growers look to be digging up a bumper crop this season as harvesting gets well underway. The region has about 35 growers, growing a variety of commercial varieties.

Both the ‘Grow Your Own Potatoes’ and ‘Cook Your Own Potatoes’ projects from Potato Council are making an important contribution to the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) Education Strategy 2012-17.

The International Potato Center (CIP) announced today that it is a Grand Challenges Explorations winner, an initiative funded by the Bill &Melinda Gates Foundation.Jan Kreuze, Ph.D., principal virologist at CIP, will pursue an innovative global hea...

Manitoba potato growers are in the home stretch with planting. 'It's been a wonderful spring for planting. We're with a lot less excess moisture situations and planting is progressing at a very nice pace.'

The United States Potato Board (USPB) led a trade mission of US seed potato growers and shippers to Egypt the first week of April.

Lotte Mart, with 93 stores nationwide (the 3rd largest retail group in Korea), started to sell US fresh table-stock potatoes in all stores on April 20, announcing the new product in their in-house paper and in their newspaper ads.

The decision support system “Blight Management” (“Skimmelstyring”) could in the future give Danish potato growers more effective control of potato late blight and reduce the use of fungicides.

The price of potatoes is expected to soar because the wet weather is delaying planting and slowing down harvests in Britain.

Local potato chip junkies in Ohio were abuzz on Friday with the return of Mister Bee potato chips in stores.

Take a panel of seven foodies and ply them with exotic versions of popular American snacks from around the world, and these are the reactions you get.

The British Potato Trade Association (BPTA) last week launched revised terms and conditions surrounding the sale and purchase of seed potatoes, providing growers with much-needed confidence that claims for contamination will be dealt with effectively.