News on Potato Cultivation from Europe

EUROPLANT Pflanzenzucht GmbH,presents its wide variety of seed potatoes - including the Venezia, Madeira and Georgina varieties - at Fruit Logistica 2016

Agrico and its subsidiaries will launch the new ‘Say Growth’ campaign at Fruit Logistica in Berlin.

Branston (Potatoes) Ltd, based near Lincoln in the United Kingdom, has submitted a planning application with North Kesteven District Council for an expansion which would create 19 new jobs.

The drought on the Canary Islands will especially hurt the potato sub-sector, according to government sources.

Potato Cooperative Agrico held its central members’ meeting last week. At this meeting the 2014/2015 annual report was discussed.

With reports again highlighting a concerning lack of knowledge amongst young adults and the origin of the food they eat, educating the next generation remains an important focus

Dutch Potato Packer Nedato reports that its long term plan to improve potato quality pays off.

Precision agriculture is already the norm for many arable farms. New methods for collecting important cultivation data are currently being developed. Does this require future growers to become ICT experts?

Agritechnica features the new generation of the AVR Puma: the Puma 3. This four-row harvester is the 200th Puma to hit the field.

El Cabildo de Tenerife (Islas Canarias) ha premiado dos prototipos que permiten mejorar la competitividad del subsector de la papa. El vicepresidente y consejero insular de Agricultura, Ganadería y Pesca entregó ayer [miércoles 28] los premios a los dos ganadores del concurso de ideas convocado para introducir la innovación en la maquinaria agrícola.

At the upcoming Agritechnica in Germany, you can find dewulf~miedema, your contact partner for potato and full vegetable harvesting machinery in stand 25 H23

Dewulf, specialist in harvesting technology for potatoes and carrots, has implemented extensive updates for 2016 on the current Kwatro self-propelled 4-row sieving harvester.

Hybrid potatoes are piquing the interests of people both within and outside the potato sector. A hybrid combines the best of two systems in order to maximize performance. But what does hybridization mean? And will it change the sector for good? HZPC weighs in.

The Dutch Association of Arable Farmers of (VTA) finds an average yield of 53.622 kg/ha, 8% below last year and on par with the 5-year average. Although tubers are large this season, the VTA predicts low factory yields as a result of a host of quality issues, resulting in an increased demand for potatoes per ton finished product.

Investigadores de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid han estudiado la estabilidad en el abastecimiento de productos agrícolas como el maíz, la papa y el cacahuete para la empresa PepsiCo y han desarrollado un software para pronosticar su evolución.

The potato peeling company “querbeet” at the farm Borgmann decided for an optical sorting machine of Marcellissen.

Research shows that crops with stacks of two or more resistance genes from closely related species, introduced into the crop via for instance genetic engineering, combined with the simultaneous introduction of resistance management, can ensure the long-term resistance of these plants to economically significant and aggressive diseases.

The potato harvest in Tirol (Austria) has started: from now on the great tasting „Tiroler Speckigen“ and the „Tiroler Mehligen“ with Quality seal „Qualität Tirol“ are available in all branches of the retailer SPAR throughout Austria.