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April 03, 2024 | Articles

18 promising French fries varieties for the entire world

It is quite logical that, when asked ‘What is the most promising French fries variety for the future?’, all Dutch breeders came up with the most fantastic varieties, at least that is what we saw at the annual variety presentation. The most important characteristics for the French fries varieties are: kilograms per hectare, big tubers…

April 03, 2024 | Articles

Fruit Logistica: World Network

Fruit Logistica is an ideal trade show for networking and is relevant for anyone trading in potatoes, vegetables and fruit on an international level. Many thousands of trade visitors were present again in Berlin this year. Representatives of trading companies, packagers, suppliers in the fruit and vegetable sector, buyers for super­markets, hypermarkets, auctions, the wholesale…

April 03, 2024 | Articles

English grower goes Dutch

In North Yorkshire (England), Stuart Tweddle grows 36 hectares of crisp potatoes of the Saturna variety. Last year, he invested in a new storehouse, switching over from the English system that uses little air to the Dutch system that uses 100 cubic metres of air per cubic metre of potatoes. He also invested heavily in…

April 03, 2024 | Articles

Secret of the cultivation of Scottish seed potatoes revealed

Steadily humming, a Massey Fergusson 6480 with in its tracks a two-row Standen-Pierson is climbing along the slope of the Firth of Tay. Seed potatoes of the Valor variety are growing on this very hilly terrain. The Valor comes from the Scottish trading company Caithness Potatoes. The Dutch group of hobby breeders from the Midden…

April 03, 2024 | Articles

Diploids

Well over thirty years ago when I worked for the International Potato Center – CIP – at the national potato improvement program in Rwanda we tried a then new technique: true potato seed. CIP showed in its annual report a small boy sitting on a big pile – two tons – of forty bags of…

April 03, 2024 | Articles

Scottish Angus beef and potato stovie.

The Scots are very fond of ‘stovies’, stews from leftover potatoes. But they also know a simple way to pimp a potato dish as a stovie. A very traditional ingredient that is used for this dish is oatmeal!

April 03, 2024 | Articles

Inspiration

One morning with Hans Steenbergen of Food Inspiration and your head is completely full of all the latest developments and trends in the world of food. Because he analyses and experiences all the trends himself, you get the feeling that you, too, are eating reindeer moss in that world-famous restaurant, Noma. Unfortunately, he didn’t know…

April 03, 2024 | Articles

Food trend watcher inspires Europatat

At the end of May, the annual meeting of the European potato trade, Europatat, took place in the Kurhaus Hotel in the Dutch coastal village of Scheveningen. The organisation had invited the food trend watcher Hans Steenbergen as their guest speaker who, being the inspiring speaker that he is, knows exactly how to market a…

April 03, 2024 | Articles

Storage system as export product

For many years now, the Netherlands has no longer been the biggest sales market for suppliers of storage systems. Many Chinese regard Europe as a museum, nicely fitted out, well organised and finished. Fortunately, this is not true.

April 03, 2024 | Articles

WIFO takes over planting machinery division of Cramer and Koning and joins APH Group

WIFO Anema from Ferwert, Holland agreed to take over the planting machinery divisions of both Cramer GmbH from Leer, Germany as well as the potato and onion planting division of the company Machinefabriek NP Koning BV (Koningsplanter) from Alkmaar, Holland. This causes WIFO to become a full liner in potato and onion planting equipment.