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May 03, 2021

Europatat Congress 2021 – Registrations are open!

Europatat, the European Potato Trade Association, is excited to announce the opening of registrations for its upcoming annual Europatat Congress that will be organized on Thursday, 10th of June in a virtual format.

DOWNS CropVision®: The new generation of Potato Optical Sorter for Unwashed Potatoes

January 12, 2021

DOWNS introduces CropVision®: an Optical Sorter for Unwashed Potatoes

DOWNS introduces CropVision®: an Optical Sorter for Unwashed Potatoes, evaluates and categorizes potatoes using HD cameras combined with AI and splits them into three streams, at a capacity of up to 100 tons per hour.

December 14, 2020

Tomra Food merges best-in-class engineering and intelligence with launch of the Tomra 5C

Revolutionary Upgrades to Sensors and Insight Tools of the Sorter Lead to Better Bottom Lines for Processors.

November 12, 2020

Bosch and BASF establish joint venture for digital technologies in the agricultural sector

Bosch and BASF Digital Farming have signed a 50:50 joint venture (JV) agreement to globally market and sell smart farming solutions from a single source in the future.

November 10, 2020

UK Researchers want to create a perfect potato using artificial intelligence

Videogame technology will be used to help develop the perfect potato as part of a ground-breaking new project involving Abertay University and a major potato seed supplier.

Tomra Insight, the Powerful Industry 4.0 Data Platform, is Now available for the Food Industry

October 20, 2020

Tomra Insight, a Powerful Industry 4.0 Data Platform, is Now available for the Food Industry

Following its successful launch last year by TOMRA Sorting Recycling, TOMRA Insight is now also being made available to TOMRA Mining customers, TOMRA Food and Compac, part of the TOMRA Food family. For all these industries, the platform is enhanced by new features and functionalities.

An overview of the Belgian agricultural landscape.

September 18, 2020

Cropmap Belgium 2020 now available

An overview of the Belgian agricultural landscape. The cropmap shows the main crop type on each individual field cultivated in the 2020 growing season and is openly available via an interactive online viewer.

AVR and DacomFarm Intelligence offer field data on a silver platter

August 28, 2020

Smart potato farming: AVR and Dacom combine field and machine data

Less cultivating equipment required by cleverly combining field and machine data. This data is displayed on the digital platform AVR Connect, offering the farmer improved, real time insights into what is going on inside the machine, how it is operating, and how the process can be made more efficient.

January 09, 2020

How Digitalization of the Supply Chain will Reduce Global Food Waste

The scale of the global food waste problem is staggering. According to reports, 1.6 billion tons of food are lost or wasted every year, equating to a total value of $1.2 trillion being wiped from the supply chain.

November 21, 2019

Climate FieldView Partnership with CLAAS Brings Bayer Data Science to More Farms

CLAAS announced a global partnership with The Climate Corporation, Bayer’s digital farming arm, and its industry-leading FieldView™ digital farming platform.

Ray Andrews of Crop Systems with the firm's new web-based potato store controller called SmartStor.

April 29, 2019

UK potato store operators ill-informed on energy use

Many potato store operators could make significant savings in energy costs if they obtained more usage data to make informed decisions, according to Ray Andrews of Crop Systems Limited.

February 28, 2019

Belgian potato supply chain commits to digital data platform WatchITgrow

Three Belgian organisations, Boerenbond, Belgapom and VITO are teaming up to strengthen the future of the Belgian potato chain by jointly investing in the online data platform WatchITgrow.

February 18, 2019

Potato cooperative Agrico inaugurates Quality Center

Last Friday, potato cooperative Agrico celebrated the official opening of its new quality centre. The centre was built last year behind the company's head office in Emmeloord.

February 12, 2019

TOMRA CEO discusses TOMRA Food’s capabilities and future aspirations at Fruit Logistica

Stefan Ranstrand, TOMRA’s President and Chief Executive Officer, chose Fruit Logistica 2019 to give a speech on TOMRA Food’s exhibition stand about the company’s unique offering, values, and future aspirations.

January 21, 2019

Potato Processing Equipment Manufacturer Kiremko invests in SAP ERP-platform

Continuous improvement is an important topic at Equipment Manufacturer Kiremko. To support its continuous improvement process, Kiremko invested in a new ERP platform (Enterprise Resource Planning). Kiremko selected for SAP S/4HANA.

Automated Quality Assessment of Potatoes for French Fries: RMA Techniek rules

November 22, 2018

Automated Quality Assessment of Potatoes for French Fries: RMA Techniek knows how...

RMA Techniek has combined their capabilities in robotics, smart engineering and experience in the potato processing industry in a unique way: the company has specialized in the automated quality assessment of potatoes and shows its progress at Interpom.

October 18, 2018

The Challenges of the Potato Industry: Interview with Marc Van Herreweghe, CEO of Mydibel and New Chairman of Belgapom

In this interview, Marc Van Herreweghe, the new Chairman of Belgapom and CEO of Mydibel, discusses the challenges this Belgian Potato Association faces going forward, as well as sustainability issues and problems related to recent weather conditions.

October 04, 2018

Mapping and evaluating the health of potato fields based on satellite data

Rezatec - a UK based company focused on the analysis and interpretation of satellite data - has in collaboration with AHDB Potatoes investigated the effectiveness of using satellite data to map the extent of potato crops in pilot locations across the UK.

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