January 24, 2024 | Articles

British Cockerill invests heavily in Dutch cleaning technology

Cockerill York is now a leading small-packaging firm of table potatoes in Great Britain and also a large supplier of crisps potatoes. A purebred family business based on crop farming, and still expanding fast. We recently paid a flying visit to the potato enterprise and had a look at the packaging station and the washing…

October 03, 2023 | Articles

Usefulness of straw as a weapon against virus Y

Plant health during variety propagation is top priority of clonal seed potato selector Leo Terwisscha van Scheltinga from Emmeloord. After hearing and seeing the results of the applica­tion of straw in regard to aphid reduction, he doesn’t doubt for a moment about its usefulness and gets to work. All second and third year strains are now…

October 03, 2023 | Articles

‘Big, simple and efficient’, that’s how STET distinguishes itself in the market after 50 years

‘Big, simple and efficient’, in short, that’s how STET distinguishes itself after 50 years in the international seed potato market according to current Managing Director Peter Ton. He’s been involved with the company for 35 years now. Ton learned the trade from founder Joop Stet, who always said, ‘We’re not a sales organisation, we’re a…

June 20, 2023 | Articles

Man makes way for machine in quality grading

It’s not easy to find capable people for every job, and this also applies to the potato sector as Kees Bijl of Bijl Aardappelen BV from the Dutch village of Sint-Annaland is experiencing. Things started to get especially tight around inspection work in the grading lines, which is why the entrepreneur decided to look to…

June 09, 2023 | News

IPM Holland donates seed potatoes to 10,000 Ukrainian households

At the start of the planting season, around 10,000 Ukrainian households received free bags of Dutch seed potatoes from trading company IPM Potato Group LTD. The donation is an initiative of IPM Holland BV, in close cooperation with the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the United Nations (UN) and the Irish Ministry of Agriculture,…

March 21, 2023 | Articles

GEO4A maps seed potato harvest in time

The earlier the yield, and the earlier the quality of the seed potato yields of all growers are known, the more efficient the sales and the marketing will be. This will all eventually benefit the pay-out. At least, that is the aim of seed potato trading merchant Den Hartigh from Emmeloord. Since the start of…

March 21, 2023 | Articles

High demand for low-input varieties

To inform visitors about the field of participants at the international Potato Variety Days 2022 in Emmeloord and its surrounding area, PotatoWorld magazine prepared a useful e-book in advance. The editors asked all those who downloaded the free digital book what topics they find most important when it comes to breeding the potato varieties of…

December 21, 2022 | Articles

One step back, two steps forward in clonal selection

Two years ago, clonal seed potato selector Klaas Schenk (51) from the village of Anna Paulowna made a radical decision. Under the guise of one step back, two steps forward, he halved his farm area in order to improve his further progress, while completely changing his cultivation method. His clones are now growing in beds and,…

September 27, 2022 | Articles

From potato vending to potato wholesale a success story

From potato doorstep selling [aardappelleurhandel] with a turnover of 5 tons per day to a potato wholesale business of currently 75,000 tons a year. That, in a nutshell, is the success story of the Dewitte Potatoes family business of Poperinge in Flanders, Belgium. Quality and flexibility, according to the traders from Flanders, are the most…

June 22, 2022 | Articles

A unique tour of tinned potatoes

Tinned potatoes. That’s certainly not the first thing the Dutch consumer thinks of in his search for a potato meal. In fact, they’re hardly available at all in this type of packaging. Nevertheless, the Dutch preserves company Coroos in Geldermalsen turns out thousands of tons of baby potatoes in these metal containers every year. During…