A group of rural Minnesotans hoping to present their concerns about McDonald’s use of potato pesticides were denied entrance to the company’s shareholder meeting Thursday, they said.
Oekraïne is een echt aardappelland. Jaarlijks produceert het meer dan 22 miljoen ton aardappelen, waarmee het de vierde aardappelproducent ter wereld is.
The (Prince Edward Island) Department of Agriculture and Forestry is asking gardeners to plant only tomato varieties with a proven resistance to a new strain of late blight.
Some Canadian and American growers and McCain Foods executives travelled south to get a first-hand look at the country’s flourishing processing industry. What did they learn?
There are tremendous prospects for young people from Ireland to establish attractive share farming opportunities in western Poland, according to Tim Bergin of Pomerania-based PSD Produce.
Bulgarian potato producers are predicting another 30% reduction in the acreage in 2015; an understandable result of a collapse in their income over last year and the cost of growing this vegetable in the country.
Wada Farms is currently planting next year’s crop. While potatoes from last season are still plentiful in the market and there is no issue with supply, large-sized Russet potatoes will be short in Idaho until new crop comes on.
Researchers on lookout for potato psyllid, a new pest that could infect crop with zebra chip, which has wiped out entire fields in other parts of the world
