PotatoEurope

February 26, 2021 | Articles

PotatoEurope 2021 Innovation Award professional jury members announced

Organiser DLG Benelux has announced the members of the professional jury of the PotatoEurope 2021 innovation award. This event will take place on September 1 and 2 2021. The winners of this special prize will be revealed on the first day of the event, which will be held at the location of Wageningen University & Research…

February 26, 2021 | Articles

‘I have a great deal of confidence in the inventiveness of the potato sector’

On 1 and 2 September 2021, the Dutch edition of PotatoEurope will take place for the first time at the location of Wageningen Plant Research in Lelystad. That’s where Chris de Visser, currently Business Unit Manager Field Crops of Wageningen University & Research (WUR), started over thirty years ago at what was then called Practical…

February 15, 2021 | News

PotatoEurope 2021 Innovation Award professional jury members announced

PotatoEurope 2021 organiser DLG Benelux recently announced the members of the professional jury of the PotatoEurope 2021 Innovation Award. The winners of this special prize will be revealed on the first day of the event, which will be held on September 1 and 2 at the location of Wageningen University & Research (WUR), Field crops…

January 25, 2020 | Articles

Applications for PotatoEurope 2021 get off to a flying start

On 1 and 2 September 2021, the Dutch-hosted Potato­Europe will no longer take place in Emmeloord, but at the location of Wageningen Plant Research in Lelystad, Kuno Jacobs, the new director of organiser DLG Benelux recently announced. Not long after the pre-registrations were opened, the organisation was able to announce that it had already received…

November 20, 2019 | Articles

PotatoEurope 2019: mostly dry weather, lots of interest and plenty of novelties

At a well-organised and spacious showground in Kain, Belgium, owned by arable farmer Octaaf Witdouck, visitors to PotatoEurope at the beginning of September were yet again presented with plenty of news about developments in the potato industry. Judging from the crowded stands and aisles and the many people on the demonstration fields, the interest was…

June 12, 2019 | Articles

A lot of news on PotatoEurope 2019

On 4 and 5 September of this year, PotatoEurope will be setting up its exhibition tents again in the Belgian village of Kain, in the middle of the Walloon potato growing area and in the shadow of the various French-fry processors in the region. After the particularly dry growing season of 2018, it’s interesting to…