EEUU: Spud market sluggish as Idaho starts planting
The potato market remains in a slump as Idaho growers plant their 2015 crops.
Norte Am. 14/04/2015
The Potato Growers Association of Western Australia launches website to combat growing criticism of the state’s regulated industry
Western Australia’s peak potato grower body has launched a new website in an attempt to fight criticism of the state’s heavily regulated potato industry.
Oceania 14/04/2015
Venezuela: "La Cristalina" produce 160 mil tubérculos de semilla pre-básica de papa
Este campo aporta a la región tubérculos de alta pureza, libres de enfermedades. Cuenta con un laboratorio, área de desinfección de sustrato, siete casas de cultivo, dos hectáreas y media para la siembra a cielo abierto.
Latam 13/04/2015
EEUU: Maine researchers release three new potato varieties
Over the last year and a half, through funding from the MPB and research development from UMaine, three new varieties of potatoes have been developed and released into the market.
Norte Am. 13/04/2015
Irlanda: Growers urged to cut potato acreage
Potato growers should reduce their potato planting areas to some degree in 2015, given the poor prices that have been available over the past two seasons, according to Teagasc’s Dr Denis Griffin.
Europa 13/04/2015
Idaho processed spud growers take price reduction
Idaho potato growers have inked a deal with processors accepting a slight decrease in payment but requiring processors to contract for at least 90 percent of 2014 acreages with individual farms.
Norte Am. 13/04/2015
Japan approves land route for US chipping potatoes
After several years of negotiations, Japan’s Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries (MAFF) has agreed to allow US chipping potatoes to be transported overland from an international port to an approved processing facility in Kagoshima.
Asia 13/04/2015
EEUU: Judge extends deadline in ‘potato cartel’ case
Negotiations are apparently ongoing in the federal potato price-fixing case that wholesalers, retailers and consumers filed six years ago. The judge on the case has extended the deadline for a settlement notice to April 10.
Norte Am. 13/04/2015