Fungicide sensitivity testing of British late potato blight strains suggests an emerging genotype is very aggressive and more difficult to control with several common fungicides. The laboratory discovery prompted a warning against […]
Statistics Sweden and the Swedish Board of Agriculture report that the Swedish potato production is estimated at 449 000 tonnes. This is lower than record low levels in modern times in 2006, 2007 […]
Wisconsin had its weather challenges for 2018. Much of potato ground in Wisconsin received a major snow dump while seed shipping was in full swing and commercial planting season was underway. The […]
The FEPEX Potato Committee, which met this week in Madrid, confirmed that this year’s production will be between 15% and 20% smaller than last year’s. The Committee also analyzed the prospects for […]
The BBC has published an online carbon emissions calculator tool which can be used by anyone to calculate the climate footprint of different common food groups, including potatoes. When one activates the […]
HIGHER prices for potatoes due to the summer drought and energy price rises contributed to higher costs for consumers last month. Consumer prices rose by 0.6pc in the year to November, as […]
British potato farmers were hit by drought in 2018, leaving the total volume of spuds harvested at the lowest level since 2012, and the fourth smallest since 1960, AHDB Potatoes says in […]
Plans on reducing the impact of potato growing and manufacturing on the environment have been outlined in Farm Frites’ first global sustainability report. The report looks at the sustainable measures the company […]
The Potato Growers of Canada (UPGC) issued a report in which the organization comments on the latest potato harvest estimates by Statistics Canada, released yesterday. “Given the late harvest in the country, […]
Potato production was down almost three per cent across the country this year, according to figures released by Statistics Canada in a report issued yesterday. StatsCan says because of difficult growing and […]
It’s been a bad year for potato growers on Prince Edward Island, and Farm Credit Canada is offering some support. The season started with a cold spring, moved into a dry summer, […]
Lamb Weston Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: LW) will report its fiscal 2019 second quarter financial results on Friday, Jan. 4, 2019. The news release will be issued at approximately 8:30 a.m. EST. Lamb […]
The Grocer in the UK reports that potato processors have warned they will continue to face the impact of tight supplies until at least summer 2019, when the early potato crop gets […]
According to the EastFruit daily monitoring project the prices for potatoes in the Russian Federation has dropped by an average of 20% since the beginning of last week alone. At the moment, […]
Kolkata: The state government is providing transport subsidy for the benefit of potato farmers, businessmen and cold storage owners, for exporting potatoes to other states. The state is giving a subsidy of […]
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