Nitrogen applications for potato crops can be managed accurately for optimum yields and to reduce nitrogen leaching, a Plant &...
A Madison botanist has been honored by the Agricultural Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture for his work on the...
With costs and benefits varying from field to field, not every farmer will spend money on every high-tech approach to growing crop...
The first part of 2008 began as a banner year for spuds. "But then all of a sudden in the fourth quarter of 2008, things started t...
The Darwin and the Indiana Jones of potato discovery, Professor Carlos Ochoa, of Peru, died this month (December, 2008). He had...
Potato farmers facing difficulties in the wake of severe rains this fall are eligible for emergency income support through a new j...
South Africa's Agricultural Research Council (ARC) has developed a new potato variety resistant to the potato tuber moth, a major...
A consortium of scientists worldwide have joined forces to sequence the genome of the potato, pooling their resources and expertis...
This comes after their sister company in the United States, Frito Lay, owned by PepsiCo Inc, agreed to reduce the levels of carcin...
There is another blight facing the potato industry in the European Union and that is legislation which threatens the dwindling num...
