Researchers flock to New Brunswick, Canada, to test both cutting-edge and bygone methods of spud cultivation to meet a challenging future.
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,,,
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.
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
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.
Onions and potatoes have traded places since last year, when potatoes shone and onion prices slumped.
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.
Cena brambor v obchodech i přímo u farmářů brzo stoupne hlavně kvůli růstu cen energií. Na pokrytí tuzemské poptávky bude potřeba dovézt zhruba 150 tisíc tun brambor ze zahraničí a dalších 100 tisíc tun v různých výrobcích z brambor.
