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Daniel Leighty has been promoted to Global Vice President of Sales. Leighty is now responsible for Key’s worldwide sales organization to bring the company’s high performance digital sorting, conveying and process automation systems to the market.

The NEPG (North-Western European Potato Growers) have released a new potato production estimate for consumption potatoes in the leading 5 North-Western potato countries. If all potatoes will be lifted totally about 26.9 million tons will be harvested.

Jeroen van Soesbergen, Plantera, Marknesse: 'The fact that there are still varieties that are being trialled is an indication that there certainly is a demand.'

Jeroen Kuin, Agroplant, Medemblik: 'No customer wants to depend on only one or two varieties for processing.'

Willem in 't Anker, C. Meijer BV, Rilland: 'There's a constant need for new potato varieties, also for French fries.'

Tigran Richter, Norika/Binst, Sanitz (D): 'For every interesting potato variety that performs better than what we already have, there's a chance in the market.'

Rindert Dankert, Breeding Company Kooi, Leeuwarden: 'In order to increase a possible success, we focus mainly on the early segment.'

Sinds 1 oktober draait de nieuwe verpakkingslijn van JASA bij aardappelbedrijf Nedato in Oud-Beijerland. De nieuwe verpakkingsmachine is aan het huidige machinepark toegevoegd om in te spelen op de vraag naar kleinere verpakkingen vanuit de retail.

Peter van Eerdt, Danespo Holland, Berltsum: 'Niemand is echt 100 procent tevreden met het aardappelras dat ze telen of verwerken.'

SoilEssentials Ltd will be showcasing 'Tuberzone' their precision farming solutions for potato cultivation at the upcoming BP2019, the potato industry event.

Sjefke Allefs, Agrico Research, Bant: 'Zodra een fritesfabrikant een ras accepteert als een grondstof, gaat het ook meteen heel hard.'

Jaap Brondijk, Stet Holland, Emmeloord: ’The point is to achieve significant improvements and not to have more of the same.’

Jacob Eising, Den Hartigh, Emmeloord: 'For growers, it's important to offer harvest and quality assurance.'

David Murdie, Potato Manager at GPS Potato Breeders, Angus: ‘As Scottish growers, we focus mainly on the home market.’

Op de komende Agritechnica stelt AVR voor de allereerste keer zijn nieuwe Puma 4.0 voor. De vierrijige aardappelrooier is de opvolger van de bekende Puma 3, maar is nu volledig cloud geconnecteerd.

British potatoes have been delisted from a number of lines in Poland’s largest supermarket due to fears of a no-deal Brexit, according to a large UK potato exporter, which has had to cancel orders with its growers as a result.

Dirk Stellingwerf, Schaap-Holland BV, Biddinghuizen: ‘There’s always room for new French-fry varieties, as long as it’s a 2.0 or 3.0 version of existing ones. The demand for this is growing especially now...'

A punto de que finalice la campaña de patata en Castilla y León, Patatas Meléndez, empresa líder en España en este sector, estima que este año ha procesado un 12% más de este tubérculo que la campaña de 2018.