An attractive appearance is crucial in the marketing of table potatoes. A clean, shiny, bright-coloured skin free of diseases or other defects is desired in red-skinned cultivars such as Norland, Pontiac and Peregrine. Unfortunately a range of diseas
Favourable winter temperature is set to boost potato cultivation in the country this year. But experts have cautioned against the looming threat of late blight disease in the tuber mainly in the North, thereby hurting the yield.
On the flip side of farmers worrying about pests are entomologists, who earn a living understanding odd creatures such as aphids, a huge family of self-cloning, virus-spreading insects.
Hrach Berberyan, the head of the Agrarian-Peasant Union of Armenia, advises farmers to cultivate potatoes, predicting that next year the harvest of early crops of potatoes will be in great demand in the Russian market.
As Idaho prepares to embrace its potato state stereotype by dropping a giant spud in front of the Statehouse on New Year’s Eve, Gem State farmers are expressing serious concern about the fate of Idaho potato crops in 2016.
Great news for potato farmers this Christmas as more potato planting material arrived on island on Saturday, December 19th.
BURLEY • Tall hay stacks and overflowing grain bins are sending farmers clear signals to look at alternative crops for the 2016 planting season.
AHDB Potatoes’ Winter Forum programme enables GB potato growers to get a head start on the latest technical information for the season ahead. Held around the country throughout January and February, the 2016 Winter Forums will feature an exciting new
