News on Potato Varieties and Seed

Climate change is making it harder for farmers to grow enough food to feed their families. A new potato variety called CIP-Matilde, developed by the International Potato Center (CIP) with support from the Crop Trust.

Inc. magazine revealed that Tasteful Selections® ranked No. 3644 on its annual Inc. 5000 list, the most prestigious ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies.

Seed Potato company HZPC realized that the financial year 2020/2021 would be difficult. Last year, the potato distributor was operating in a global economic recession.

The call for abstract submission for WPC 2022 is now open and authors are encouraged to submit their abstract online for consideration. Deadline for Oral Submissions: 30th November 2021. Deadline for Poster Submission: 15th February 2022.

The home of the much-loved Pembrokeshire potato has added a new iconic product to supermarket shelves with the launch of the UK's first carbon-neutral potato.

Princesa Amandine participará en la próxima edición de FruitAttraction (del 5 al 7 de octubre en IFEMA Madrid) con presencia en los stands de sus cuatro socios ibéricos: Udapa (10C05), GV El Zamorano (10B01), Ibérica de Patatas (5F02) y Campotec (8D03).

Tubers have battled various scourges for about 10,000 years, as well as an unpredictable climate that can cause unseasonable frost damage to crops every year.

In New Brunswick’s potato belt, the spud is king, yielding two billion pounds of product for a $1.5 billion industry during the annual fall harvest. This year’s potato crop is bigger and better than 2020, thanks to warm weather and good rain over the summer growing season.

HZPC developed an online tool with which customers can easily convert their knowledge and experience into tailor-made solutions – a digital calculator that finds the potato variety that gives the highest yield: the new Even Greener tool.

In a new study, published in Crop Science, researchers describe genetic tools to develop potato varieties with improved natural resistance to the Colorado potato beetle

Comienza en Araba la recogida de la patata de calidad. Este año Udapa amplía su catálogo con Beltza y Edurne, las nuevas variedades de Neiker. Como ya anunciara Diario de Noticias DE Álava, con la llegada del mes de septiembre Udapa se sumerge en plena recolección de patata de Álava.

As MountainKing readies for its fall harvest, early tests from its fields in Colorado’s San Luis Valley offer encouraging signs for several of the brand’s gourmet varieties including its yellow-flesh varietals.

Fish and chip shop owners and restaurateurs have been to see where one of their key produce comes from. Up to 60 varieties of newly harvested potatoes were on display.

Progressive Produce grows, packs and ships a wide variety of year-round produce, farming thousands of acres throughout North and South America.

La IV Feria Insular de la Papa de Gran Canaria se celebró los días 10 y 11 de septiembre, en Teror, organizada por el Cabildo de Gran Canaria, con la colaboración del Ayuntamiento de la Villa Mariana.

Recientemente, ha comenzado la campaña de la patata en Álava con la idea de alcanzar el arranque generalizado en torno al 15 de este mes de septiembre, según precisó uno de los ingenieros agrícolas de Udapa, Jon Legorburu

Weather patterns have continued to influence the outlook for the Canadian potato crop since UPGC’s last update. Eastern Canada (particularly PEI) has received record amounts of rainfall from the remnants of Hurricane Ida.

Buffalo, Picaso y Valor son las tres variedades de papas convencionales más productivas de las 24 que el Cabildo ha cultivado este año en la finca de Osorio de Teror. En cultivo ecológico ganó Gatsby.