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Few people know better than Greg Jones how important it is to sort and grade potatoes accurately and quickly.

Although other parts of the potato industry are in the doldrums, with lower returns than last year and much higher rejection percentages on account of the wet summer and lifting season, Scottish seed potato growers are busy exporting.

De schattingen voor de Britse aardappelproductie in het seizoen 2011/12 zijn naar beneden bijgesteld

La empresa química alemana BASF ha anunciado este lunes que renuncia a desarrollar y comercializar en Europa organismos genéticamente modificados, entre ellos la polémica patata transgénica 'Amflora', debido al fuerte rechazo social en la mayoría de Es...

They all had slightly different ways of expressing it, but when panelists at the Potato Expo 2012 discussed sustainability, their message came down to three words known as the triple bottom line: people, planet, profit.

BASF announced today that it is concentrating its plant biotechnology activities on the main markets in North and South America. Development and commercialization of all products targeted solely at cultivation in the European market (potatoes!) will be...

De laatste maanden zijn er in Duitsland bijzonder veel aardappelen afgezet met als stempel tweede soort of voor de verwerking tot biogas of zetmeel. Dit komt door de grote Duitse aardappeloogst.

An image problem continues to trouble all sectors of the spud industry, according to the Alliance for Potato Research and Education

The British potato industry is being encouraged to get behind two educational projects from Potato Council, to ensure that potatoes continue to feature in the daily lives of the nation. Grow Your Own Potatoes is now in its eighth year.

BASF SE, the maker of the Amflora scientific potato, is moving the plant-science unit that genetically modifies crops to the U.S. from Germany after European consumers resisted the technology.

Ahead of an emergency meeting in the Irish Farm Centre to address the crisis in the potato sector, IFA President John Bryan said growers are facing wipeout as retailers and packers pocket up to 80% of the final consumer price and farmers go broke.

A recent case study by the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) showcases a new effort to produce high quality seed potatoes for farmers in Tanzania.

Yannery Gómez Bonilla, a graduate in Biology from the University of Costa Rica, has done research for her PhD into the application of granulovirus against two species of potato tuber moth.

The potato industry is behind a unified effort to learn more about acrylamide - which was discovered in food about ten years ago.

Children in the U.K. are finding vouchers for “Mudpuddle Farm” books in their Happy Meals next to the McNuggets and fries

Una serie de días de campo, orientados a transferir conocimientos y experiencias a agricultores de las regiones de La Araucanía, Los Ríos y Los Lagos, efectuarán el Consorcio de la Papa y el INIA durante los meses de enero y marzo.

Officials associated with the potato industry in the Pacific Northwest have indicated that acreage planted to potatoes in Oregon and Washington increased this season.

McCain Foods in Ballarat has denied plans to shift its local plant to New Zealand within 18 months.