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March 25, 2024 | Articles

French edition with European style

It was an absolutely brilliant idea to name all internationally-oriented potato shows on the European continent PotatoEurope. While the first French edition of PotatoEurope four years ago hardly attracted any visitors from far-a-way, it was quite different now. In September, masses of Russians, Americans, Australians, Chinese and many other potato entrepreneurs from all over the…

March 25, 2024 | Articles

‘GLOBALGAP much easier-to-understand’

The GLOBALGAP directives have been tightened up with effect from 1 January 2012. Initially, this meant a great deal of extra work for the Klompe-Van de Linde partnership in Dreischor. ‘But it has also become much more manageable’, says Gilles Klompe, who is responsible for the administrative tasks within the partnership. ‘If you keep all…

March 25, 2024 | Articles

Schouten focuses more on export and commerce after 75 years

No funny business, just hard work, the manufacture of solid machinery, sobriety at the office and on the work floor, no fat cars for the directors, but good pay for everyone. That’s the style that has characterised Schouten Sorting Equipment BV in Kampen for the past 75 years in the same way as it characterises…

March 19, 2024 | Articles

International Potato Variety Days 2023

Stricter customer demands require accelerated adjustments in breeding

Customers in the international potato sector are increasingly tightening their requirements. Current terms such as regenerative agriculture and bio­diversity are now being used, partly under the influence of a critically watchful society. One of the consequences of this is that crop protection chemicals and fertilisers will be…

March 19, 2024 | Articles

Sustainable Potato Platform (SPP): resistant varieties cannot do without spraying

‘Resistant varieties cannot do without spraying to stop infection. This is the conclusion from the world of science, and that insight needs to be put into practice as soon as possible.’ It’s for this reason that the Sustainable Potato Platform (SPP) was recently founded by Nufarm and Geersing Potato Specialist. On their own trial field, which…

February 28, 2024 | Articles

Research into cisgeneses continues unabated

‘A number of reports have been written recently about cisgeneses that clearly indicate that cisgeneses is as safe as any conventional method of plant breeding. It is a pity, therefore, to have to conclude that this ministry and some politicians are unreceptive to ongoing scientific understanding’, are the recent words of Professor Evert Jacobson in…

February 28, 2024 | Articles

Higher income by using sustainable precision technology

Towards sustainable agriculture, that was the theme of the information day about new precision technology recently held in the northern region of the Netherlands. Thanks to the use of GPS, digital plot mapping and sensor technology, it is now possible to be more efficient with fuel, artificial fertiliser and crop protection chemicals. An important objective,…

February 28, 2024 | Articles

Skylark brings potato permanently to higher balance

You won’t often see the skylark high over a grass-green potato field, but he does like to fly very high over the golden-yellow, waving cornfields. Unaware, this wondrously singing highflyer has again emphasised its urgent need of both crops through the Skylark foundation. At least, that’s the most frequently-noted experience in the 10 years that…

February 28, 2024 | Articles

New technology for distributing germination inhibitors

The most-used method for preventing sprouting in consumption potatoes is still gassing. The heat atomising equipment with combustion engine used for this purpose is, however, not very user-friendly and the germination inhibitor is not always evenly distributed, is the experience of suppliers such as Agrifirm and Belchim. For this reason, they are jointly focusing on…

February 21, 2024 | Articles

Organically and conventionally-grown potatoes brought togetherin BioImpuls

For more than half her working life, Professor Edith Lammerts van Bueren has been active in the world of organic potato research and breeding. As Senior Plant Breeding Researcher at the Louis Bolk Institute in Driebergen, she has tried, right from the start of her career, to work as much as possible in a wide…

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