News on The Potato Supply Chain

La Red de Manejo de Cultivos (PMN, por sus siglas en ingles), una editorial sin fines de lucro con información agrícola y hortícola, anuncia el lanzamiento de "Focus on Potato", un recurso en ingles con emisiones por Internet y otras herramie...

Aardappelcoöperatie Agrico heeft afgelopen week de resultaten van oogst 2009 gepresenteerd aan haar leden. Agria kwam als grootste industriepool van Agrico uit op € 10,24 per 100 kg en een hectareopbrengst van € 5.980. Het ras Gourmandine was met € 21,...

Manter International, manufacturer of weighing and packaging machines, has a new model added to the package.  Especially for large packers it is important to deliver quickly large numbers of packages in a short time. The available floor area is usuall...

Potato growers and scientists from Washington, Oregon and Idaho congregated at Washington State University’s Othello Research facility at Cox and Booker roads during Potato Field Day June 24 to exchange pertinent facts about pest control and water mana...

Despite hot dry weather, Late Blight was found in a field in northern Walsh County in northeast North Dakota late last week.This is in addition to finds in Dickey County in southeast North Dakota and in the Carberry and Carman areas of southern Manitob...

The number of cases of a potentially devastating soil-borne bacterium that could cause significant potato production problems in Scottish seed potatoes has doubled.The Scottish Government yesterday admitted it had found two more cases of Dickeya solani...

After nearly 30 years of research, Professor David Levy has developed a strain of potato that can be grown in hot, dry climates, and irrigated by saline water sources.Professor David Levy's windowsill is lined with potatoes of numerous shapes and sizes...

De Europese Commissie werkt aan een voorstel om de toelating van ggo-gewassen niet langer op Europees niveau te beslechten. Het dossier zou half juli worden voorgesteld tijdens het Belgisch EU-voorzitterschap. Uittredend minister van Landbouw Sabine La...

Het aardappelareaal van Europa is nagenoeg gelijk gebleven aan het areaal van vorig jaar. Dit melden de North Western European Potato Growers (NEPG). De verwachting van NEPG is dat het areaal in Nederland, Duitsland en Frankrijk onveranderd is. Het fei...

With close to about 25 per cent of potatoes having been released from cold storages across West Bengal, potato prices, which had inched up by Rs 10-20 a quintal last week, dropped on Tuesday. The wholesale price of the tuber (Jyoti variety) dropped Rs ...

The Scottish seed potato industry has reacted with anger to the confirmation of another crop of potatoes being infected with the highly infectious and transmissible potato disease dickeya solani which was found in a sample of ware potatoes grown last y...

Bijzonder spannend is het op de aardappelmarkt. Tot nu toe beleven we één van de droogste jaren in de laatste honderd jaar. Zelfs in 2003 en 2006, toen de termijnmarkten door de 30 euro per honderd kilo schoten, was het niet zo droog als nu. Ook nu br...

Archer Daniels Midland Company (NYSE: ADM) today announced two key actions that advance its strategy for profitable growth in China and throughout Asia: the opening of a Beijing office;and a strategic investment in, and memorandum of understanding with...

Aviko Potato uit Steenderen betaalt over het seizoen 2009/10 voor Agria in de pool zonder voorverkoop gemiddeld 97,52 euro per ton uit. Dit is 2,75 procent meer dan het seizoen ervoor. Ook voor Innovator en Victoria en Leonardo rekent de inkooporganisa...

Where Japanese companies are trying to gain a competitive advantage, dehy fits in nicely as the economic climate changes! Fewer people are eating out in Japan, opting instead to shop in delis and supermarkets more. 

Potato late blight has been found and confirmed in the south Columbia Basin and Washington State University plant pathologist Dennis Johnson says more confirmations of the disease are expected this week. He says the disease was found in two locations. ...

British potato plantings this year are likely to be the lowest for five years, according to the Potato Council's first crop estimate.It forecast that total plantings would be 2.8% lower than last year at 126,600ha, the smallest area since 2005. With an...

Gisteren speurden drie aardappeltelers en een wetenschapper in een luchtballon naar sporen van phytophthora boven aardappelpercelen in West-Brabant. De gevreesde aardappelziekte bedreigt elk jaar de aardappeloogst. Voor een gezonde aardappel op tafel ...