Potato Variety Days

October 21, 2020 | News

HZPC aims for connection with Potato Days Live

Every year in November, various companies take part in the Potato Variety Presentation Days in the Netherlands. As part of this year’s event, potato breeder HZPC organizes its Potato Days Live on Wednesday November 4th. In a world strongly subject to change, the company’s partners will be able to get connected by digitally joining the…

October 21, 2020 | News

Agroplant organizes coronaproof edition of its Potato Days

During the annual Potato Variety Presentation Days, this year scheduled to take place on November 4, 5 and 6, trading company Agroplant invites people to meet the family as well as the company’s potato varieties during their Potato Days.

March 11, 2020 | Articles

Variety Presentation Days 2019: main objectives in breeding vary widely

To the question ‘what is the most important focus in your breeding work at the moment’, we received a wide range of answers from the participating breeding and trading companies present at the annual variety presentation days in Emmeloord and its immediate surroun­dings. Frequently heard responses were, we are looking for resistances, and for some people…

October 16, 2019 | Articles

There is still plenty of room for new French-fry varieties

At the beginning of November, the European potato breeding companies and seed potato trading companies operating in the Netherlands presented their latest promising numbers and varieties again for their mostly global customer base. The largest percentage of these is destined for the French-fry market and all participants at the variety presentation days expect to have…

February 27, 2018 | Articles

Robust is the new trend

At the beginning of November, leading European potato breeding companies and seed potato merchants presented their latest variety aces for the future at various locations in the Netherlands. Increasing attention is being paid to strong and sturdy or robust varieties. The reason for this is the demand from both global markets and the cultivation sector.…

July 11, 2017 | Articles

Does climate change also have an influence on variety development?

The year 2016 was a good one for breeders. This is thanks, in particular, to the extreme growing conditions that have allowed breeders to get rid of the ‘weaklings’ such as numbers with growth cracks’, as they describe it so beautifully in their breeders’ jargon. The question that then arises is to what extent is…