Agri-Business
CSO: 'Significant' growth in potato prices over 12 months to February 2024
Prices paid to potato growers soared over the 12 months to the end of February this year according to latest...
Agri-Business
Prices paid to potato growers soared over the 12 months to the end of February this year according to latest...
N.Ireland
The College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (CAFRE) has just published a crops update for Northern Ireland. It relates...
Tillage
The Irish potato industry looks set to enter a new era of blight management as it approaches the 2024 growing...
N.Ireland
According to College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprises (CAFRE) crops advisors, spring barley seed may be in short supply...
Tillage
The need to both mix and alternate fungicide chemistries was highlighted at the Teagasc Potato Late Blight Workshop held at...
Opinion
I find it very strange that potatoes have not been included within the remit of the Food Vision Tillage Group....
Tillage
Gene editing, under the auspices of a new research project, looks set to fast-track the impact of potato breeding programmes....
Horticulture
While people may be busy attending St. Patrick’s Day parades, March 17 has a different meaning for some potato farmers...
Tillage
Teagasc has said that potato growers must soil test to secure the use of added phosphate fertiliser this year. Without...
Tillage
A procedure known as ‘dynamic realignment’ could help secure seed potato supplies for Irish maincrop growers, according to the Irish...
Tillage
The Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) is to seek immediate compensation from the Department of Agriculture Food and the Marine (DAFM)...
Tillage
Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) president, Francie Gorman, has been given a clear mandate by potato growers to organise protests outside...
Agri-Business
The average price of a 2.5kg bag of potatoes jumped by 42 cent for consumers last month but in contrast...
Tillage
Potash is a key nutrient for potato crops, impacting on the yield and quality of tubers, as well as the...
Rural Life
Regional styles and variations of St. Brigid’s crosses existed throughout the country in the past. The crosses were hung in...
Agri-Business
First estimates of agricultural price indices for 2023 indicate a shift from the sharp price increases that characterised 2021 and...
N.Ireland
The Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) is to continue lobbying on behalf of flood-affected potato and vegetable growers. This was a...
Tillage
The United Nations (UN) has taken the decision to designate May 30 as the ‘International Day of the Potato’. It...