June 18, 2025 | Articles

New Potato Platform: helpful tool for the latest market data

Are you active in the potato business every day and do you sometimes spend hours searching for the latest market data? Then the new DCA Market Intelligence Potato Platform can be a helpful tool. The creators of the so-called Price Reporting Agency (PRA) have brought together in one comprehensive product as many figures and information…

June 18, 2025 | Articles

The 100-year-old Van der Windt family business is expanding its activities

When you say Van der Windt, you’re talking fodder potatoes, is still what they say in the potato sector. Yet this description has long ceased to cover the essence of the 100-year-old family business. The expansion of activities started some time ago and will only increase in the coming years. This is already evident from…

March 18, 2025 | Articles

‘The contract price increase has been crucial in the continuation of our success’

After three jam-packed and festive days at Interpom in the Belgian town of Kortrijk, Stefan Top’s eyes continue to shine tirelessly. ‘I’m still very much excited’, he laughs heartily when greeting us. Fortunately, in the busy programme covering 175 years of AVR, the director gets the full support of Marketing & Communications Manager Majna Seurinck.…

March 18, 2025 | Articles

Potato Variety Days 2024 Spotlights on varieties with fewer growing days

Breeding new potato varieties with fewer growing days is increasingly in the spotlight due to the many advantages for both cultivation and marketing. However, a short growing season isn’t always synony­mous with an early variety; it’s also about the capacity of a variety to bulk up early. In addition, every market has its own definition of…

March 18, 2025 | Articles

Fair prices are necessary for continued high-quality potato cultivation

Will the potato still be a ca$h crop in arable farming in 2030. This was the key question during the first seminar at the Dutch Potato Demonstration Day trade fair, under the direction of BO Akkerbouw director André Hoogendijk. Three guest speakers from different parts of the chain answered that statement with an unreserved YES.…

December 17, 2024 | Articles

Advanced training in unique French-Dutch seminar

Trade fairs are increasingly presenting themselves lately as platforms for advanced sector training. And this trend was also experienced at PotatoEurope France, thanks to a unique collaboration between the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) and the Dutch Potato Organisation (NAO). A jointly organised seminar focused on collaboration between the Netherlands and France, highlighted modern methods of…

December 17, 2024 | Articles

New online platform for potato auction launched

Service2Potato is a new international online trading platform for auctioning potatoes that was launched at the recently-held Potato Demonstration Day trade fair in the Dutch village of Westmaas. ‘It aims to make the market fully transparent. By giving supply and demand free rein, a fair price is created for both buyers and sellers’, the initiators…

October 16, 2024 | Articles

Miedema CP 42 P now ready for real work

Last year, the machine was already being admired at several European agricultural shows and it is now ready for real work. Machinery manufacturer Miedema demonstrated its new CP 42 P planting combination in the Netherlands during the recent planting period. And also in the village of Klaaswaal in the province of South-Holland, under the watchful…

October 08, 2024 | Articles

Propagation fromgermination to Pb1 fully conditioned

Unique – the approach of the Westland area in the province of South Holland cannot be more aptly described. It is here that ultra-modern potato propagation takes place, from germination to the cultivation of the Pb1 generation, and all of this under fully conditioned circumstances. Under roof and under glass with only one goal: to…

October 08, 2024 | Articles

McDonald’s is seeking to build bridges with the Dutch potato sector, what’s going on?

Fast food chain McDonald’s is an important French fries retailer in the world and is therefore of great value to the potato growers in the Netherlands. So far, the group has rarely turned directly to the cultivation sector in the Netherlands. However, that changed this year. For example, talks were recently started with some leading…