December 16, 2025 | Articles

Multi-million investment in Prinzen grading line, the foundation for the next generation

The cultivation of seed potatoes is by no means widely practiced in the Dutch eastern area of Achterhoek, which is mainly known as a livestock farming area. Yet the 100-year-old family business Prinzen Potatoes from the village of Aalten grows no fewer than 370 hectares of excellent planting stock here. Recently, the area has even…

September 23, 2025 | Articles

Beekenkamp has taken mini tuber cultivation in hand thoroughly and naturally

Growing potatoes under glass is not just a matter of course. If you want to deliver your harvest of greenhouse plants, in this case mini tubers, in a way that they’ll continue to grow healthily outdoors, it requires a thorough approach, both literally and figuratively, as product specialist Angela Olsthoorn at Plantenkwekerij Beekenkamp Plants BV…

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…

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…

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…