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Grow Your Own Potatoes is one of the most widely recognised primary school growing projects

In the United Kingdom, potato values fell in the week to 15 October as better weather boosted availability and lower value supplies dominated sales.

Rain has hampered harvesting progress for potato growers in many regions in the United Kingdom

Food and Farming Minister Jim Paice today welcomed the first Potato Day (Thursday 14 October), which marks the start of the new campaign ‘many faces of potatoes’

Food and Farming Minister, Jim Paice, will be celebrating Potato Day on 14 October with a visit to Frogmary Green Farm in Somerset, a farm which works to educate children about potatoes.

Potato industry delegates attending this year’s Seed Industry Event at Crieff Hydro on October 26 will have the opportunity of questioning researchers on the latest developments concerning potato diseases such as Dickeya solani and potyviruses.

This month's Euro-Potato report focuses on the potato harvest and provides an overview of estimates and predictions currently available on acreages, yields and prices

Confronting the challenges facing the British seed potato industry and planning a path to prosperity will be the focus of Potato Council’s Seed Industry Event which takes place on October 26, 2010, at Crieff Hydro, Crieff, near Perth in Scotland.

Potato growers and store managers should take a ‘toolbox’ approach to tackling potato storage, according to Sutton Bridge Crop Storage Research head, Adrian Cunnington.

Potato Council, a division of the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB), has appointed Clarion Communications to head up a three-year campaign to promote fresh potatoes.

Europe's leading centre of crop storage research was officially opened at Sutton Bridge by Potato Council's chairman and Scots farmer Allan Stevenson.He was joined by Lord Taylor of Holbeach, who is a spokesman for the Department of Energy and Climate ...

From Potato Council Grower Panel Lifting Survey (www.growerpanel.com), 23,000 ha (18%) were harvested by 27th August, compared with 20,000 ha (15%) in 2009 and 20,900 ha (16%) in 2008.

UK Potato growers are invited to attend the official opening of a new 600,000 research facility at the Potato Council's Sutton Bridge Crop Storage Research (SBCSR).

Below you find an excerpt of "Potato Weekly", by the Potato Council. This crop update, published on August 2, provides insight on the harvest and development of the potato production in the United Kingdom:Total early crop clearance to 31st Ju...

Potato growers gathered together for an update on the latest legislative, technical and environmental issues facing their sector at the East Midlands Potato Day held near Spalding in Lincolnshire.

Stories circulated yesterday reported that Health Secretary, Andrew Lansley, would be announcing the break up of the Food Standards Agency.  They also suggested that this break up was an indication that the Government had ‘caved in’ to the pressure of...

Heavy rainfall at the start of the second week of July has benefited parts of Northern European, where the dry conditions are affecting the whole European potato industry. Most areas have crops two weeks behind last year. New crop tuber size and yields...

Potatoes have been the centre of classroom activity as thousands of Earlies, grown as part of the Potato Council ‘Grow Your Own Potatoes’ project, have been unearthed.Nearly half a million pupils have had a hand in growing their own potatoes this year ...