Researchers flock to New Brunswick, Canada, to test both cutting-edge and bygone methods of spud cultivation to meet a challenging future.
At a time when almost every essential people need for survival is atrociously costly, one common tuber crop, potato, has not followed the galloping price escalation.
Plant-parasitic nematodes, microscopic roundworms, live either inside roots and other plant tissues (endoparasites) or in the soil (ectoparasites). Their life cycle includes an egg, several juvenile stages, and an adult stage.
“Il 2022 è stato un anno terribile per chi produce patate in Emilia-Romagna: i danni arrecati dagli elateridi hanno compromesso circa il 35% della produzione con relativo drammatico calo di PLV.
Australian grocer Woolworths Group said heavy rain may keep squeezing supply of farm-based staples, including potato chips, as soaring shelf prices contributed to a decline in first-quarter food sales,,,
Supplies of fresh potatoes in Tasmania’s supermarkets are low, with a major grower forced to temporarily halt harvesting as weather conditions make it too wet to get tractors onto paddocks, as Fiona Breen, Laurissa Smith, and Tony Briscoe reports for
University of Idaho Extension has published a new bulletin to help potato farmers recognize the symptoms of bacterial ring rot (BRR) and protect their operations from this devastating potato crop disease.
Ethiopia has given the green light to carry out observation field trials for genetically modified potatoes that are said to be resistant to blight, a move seen as a further sign of the country’s growing embrace of the controversial genetic modificati
