Professor Jonathan Jones' group at The Sainsbury Laboratory in Norwich has successfully developed PiperPlus 1.0, a late blight-resistant Maris Pipe...

In mid-May, many European potato growers expected the season to end with prices around EUR100/kg, but rains dashed their hopes. Processors quit pur...

Throughout Europe, spud buyers for major processing plants are now focusing on contracts, and demand for free buy has “dried up”, except for so...

The Little Potato Company and Leduc County officials celebrated the start of construction on a more than 200,000 square foot packaging facility and...

Following 16 years of dedicated service to the World Potato Congress Inc.'s Board of Directors, and the past four years as President, Romain Cools ...

Although buyers are now much calmer, the potato processing activity is still quite high throughout Europe, the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) e...

Pulsed Electric Fields (PEF) process is increasingly being used in the production of potato and vegetable snacks. The benefits of the process are b...

For the second year in a row, farmers in southern Iceland are concerned about the possibility of potato blight. In 2021, the spuds from Þykkvabær...

Cyprus' potato growers recently requested a meeting with the president, claiming that the ongoing hikes in the cost of fertilizer and oil will prev...

The total area of potatoes in the four North-West European countries is estimated to increase by 2% in 2022 to reach 507,300 hectares (+10,100 hect...