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The Prince Edward Island Potato Industry '... hasn't focused on the belly aching, financial or emotional challenges...' resulting from the potato tampering incidents, that are still unresolved. 'Instead food safety has continued to be the highest priority ...' says Greg Donald, general manager of the P.E.I. potato board.

Experts fear that in Scotland the combination of scaled back potato planting and a drop in yield due to wet weather could lead to a shortage of potatoes.

Last week APH Poland successfully put a 6 row Baselier HFD6LKB550 hydraulic foldable haulm topper into operation at the farm of Mr. Wojciech Baranowski.

Potato Prices in Mongolia spike as the country switches to the new potato crop.

The latest Focus on Potato webcast, titled “Best Management Tactics and Fungicide Resistance in Early Blight and Brown Spot” highlights the importance of measures to mitigate fungicide resistance, particularly when applied and repeatedly used on a single site.

El objetivo del Plan de Siembra de Semilla Nacional es cumplir con la demanda de este rubro que aumenta en el mes de diciembre.

Consumer research in Australia, Potato Tracker, has shown that Australian consumers prefer to purchase pre-packaged potatoes, with one to two kilogram packages as the ideal sizes.

The National Potato Council awards its 2015-16 Academic Scholarship to Shunping Ding, a PhD. student in Plant Pathology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Badger Common’Tater, a leading source of news, education and highlights of Wisconsin’s potato and vegetable industry is now available online.

Sin ayuda de las Secretarías de Gobierno se encuentran cerca de 300 productores de papa en comunidades de las faldas del Volcán Pico de Orizaba; la causa, no hay apoyos para este producto que es el sostén de cientos de familias.

Representatives from McCain Foods are excited about a new project under way in Aroostook County that has some farmers planting their usual acreage of potatoes right on top of a bed of winter rye, barley or oats.

Las indemnizaciones pagadas por pólizas contratadas durante la temporada agrícola 2014-2015 (abril-mayo) alcanzaron la suma de $613 millones (aprox. un millón de dólares) de pesos en la región de La Araucanía, entregando un promedio de $900.000 pesos por agricultor, lo que les permitió cubrir sus costos y poder mantenerse en el sector, de acuerdo a cifras entregadas por el Comité de Seguros del Agro (Agroseguros).

Investigadores del Instituto de Ecología (INECOL) logran disminuir con un plaguicida denominado bionematicida un gusano llamado nematodo dorado, el cual es responsable de la baja producción de papa en México.

La variedad Elbe es producto de una investigación que realizó la Universidad de Costa Rica por una década. El nuevo tubérculo es de fácil industrialización.

Research and development was at the top of the agenda at the ninth World Potato Conference in Yanqing, Beijing.

Australian horticulture researcher and industry stalwart Dr Kevin Clayton-Greene has been honoured with a prestigious Industry Recognition Award at the 9th World Potato Congress in Beijing, China.

Potatoes seem like an unlikely ingredient for ice cream, but the allure of tasting the strange concoction had dozens of visitors lining-up at the China Kitchen exhibition at the 2015 World Potato Congress in Beijing.

The most recent report of a metal object found in a bag of potatoes appears to be of a different nature than previous incidents, say RCMP and the P.E.I. Potato Board.potato bag in which watch strap pin was found