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ITC's Technico Scales Aeroponic Seed Potato Output to 100 Million Mini-Tubers

ITC's seed-technology subsidiary Technico is adding 60 controlled-environment greenhouses to push its aeroponic TECHNITUBER output to 100 million disease-free mini-tubers, a scale-up aimed at the earliest, most fragile link in the seed potato supply chain.

potatoes.me Editorial Desk · Aug 2, 2026 · 3 min read

Farming & Agronomy

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Bryansk Region's Potato Harvest Reaches 27% of Plan at Strong Yields

Bryansk region's 2026 potato harvest is running well ahead of its grain harvest, with more than a quarter of the planned area already dug and yields tracking near 28 tons per hectare while wheat, barley and rye remain in earlier stages.

Aug 2, 2026 · 2 min read

Farming & Agronomy

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The Living Soil Beneath the Potato Crop

Potato fields are also underground ecosystems, and decades of intensive tillage, fertiliser and monoculture have quietly worn down the microbial communities that keep that soil productive — a pattern an industry analysis says is now showing up as rising disease and diminishing returns from fertiliser.

Jul 28, 2026 · 3 min read

Storage

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Arctic Potato Project Bets on Storage Before Scale

A new potato operation taking shape in Russia's Arkhangelsk region is planting only a fraction of its available land in year one, putting most of its budget into storage and sorting infrastructure instead — a bet that supply-chain reliability, not yield, is what will make or break the project.

Jul 28, 2026 · 3 min read

Growing & Agronomy

Growing & Agronomy

Jolin Potato Variety Hits 30 Tons/ha Despite Cold Ukraine Spring

A mid-season control digging on a Ukrainian farm put the mid-late variety Jolin on track for close to 30 tons/ha, even after a spring cold snap suppressed tuber set across the crop — a data point that says as much about variety resilience as about the season itself.

Jul 27, 2026 · 2 min read

Farming & Agronomy

Growing & Agronomy

Aphids Are Becoming a Second Front in the Fight Against Potato Beetle

Aphids are emerging alongside Colorado potato beetle as a serious threat to potato crops — not mainly for the feeding damage they cause, but for the viral diseases they help spread, while growing insecticide resistance in both pests is making control harder for growers.

Jul 27, 2026 · 3 min read

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Ukraine's Potato Institute Puts Out Eight New Varieties

Eight new potato varieties out of Ukraine converge on the same core traits — resistance to cancer, nematode and late blight — while yields and end-use suitability spread widely across the lineup.

Jul 27, 2026 · 2 min read

Farming & Agronomy

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Growing & Agronomy

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Why Polish Growers Still Ridge Every Potato Field

Polish potato acreage has collapsed from 3 million hectares to under 200,000, yet the crop's oldest technique — building soil ridges around every row — remains as central to production as ever, doing everything from warming soil to fighting weeds.

Jul 27, 2026 · 3 min read

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Growing & Agronomy

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Loskop Valley Cultivar Trial Tests Processing Potatoes Under Irrigation

A small irrigated valley producing just 3.3% of South Africa's commercial potato crop is hosting a cultivar trial in one of the country's harshest growing climates, where frost risk and low natural rainfall make irrigation management the deciding factor for processing varieties.

Jul 27, 2026 · 2 min read

Farming & Agronomy

Growing & Agronomy

Can Your Potato Variety Take the Heat All the Way to the Fryer?

Rising and earlier-than-usual heat is exposing which processing potato varieties actually hold their value from field to fryer, not just in yield charts. Breeder trial data suggests the real test isn't a good year — it's a hard one.

Jul 26, 2026 · 3 min read

Machinery & Equipment

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Every Inch Counts: Why Potato Spacing Matters More Than Ever

Rising seed, fertilizer, and labor costs are pushing potato growers to treat plant spacing as the variable that governs every other input — a case a Prince Edward Island grower-turned-inventor has built an entire equipment line around.

Jul 26, 2026 · 2 min read

Storage

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Growing & Agronomy

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Storage Diseases Move From Background Risk to Seed Priority

Fusarium dry rot, silver scurf and other tuber-borne diseases are quietly undermining seed potato quality as storage periods stretch longer and thin-skinned processing varieties prove more vulnerable to damage.

Jul 26, 2026 · 4 min read

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Growing & Agronomy

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Potato Aphid Control Comes Down to a Countable Threshold

Potato growers get a hard number instead of a hunch: five to ten aphids per leaf, or one in five sampled leaflets carrying at least one aphid, is the line between spraying and letting ladybugs and hoverfly larvae do the work for free.

Jul 25, 2026 · 2 min read

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Growing & Agronomy

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Peru's Potato Plantings Rise 0.5% for 2025/2026, But Regions Diverge Sharply

Peru's potato plantings for the 2025/2026 campaign edged up 0.5% nationally, but northern departments like La Libertad grew far faster than the country as a whole — a gap that matters more for growers than the national average.

Jul 25, 2026 · 3 min read

Farming & Agronomy

Growing & Agronomy

UK Potato Growers Face Rising Manganese Deficiency This Season

Jul 25, 2026 · 2 min read

Farming & Agronomy

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Nigeria's 2026 Farming Facts Carry Extra Weight for Tuber Growers

Jul 25, 2026 · 3 min read

Farming & Agronomy

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Europe's Heatwave Tests the 2026 Potato Crop: Spain Shows Early Warning Signs

Jul 12, 2026 · 5 min read

Farming & Agronomy

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Western Potato Varieties in Egypt: Why the Real Question Isn't Genetics, It's Local Proof

Jul 12, 2026 · 3 min read

Storage

Growing & Agronomy

Storage under stress: How climate change is rewriting the rules for potato dormancy and disease risk

Climate stress on the growing crop — not just conditions inside the store — is reshaping dormancy, sprouting and disease risk after harvest, demanding sharper lot-by-lot judgment from storage managers.

Jul 12, 2026 · 4 min read

Farming & Agronomy

Growing & Agronomy

Why the Next Era of Potato Farming Will Be Won or Lost Underground

Climate volatility, water constraints and disease pressure are forcing potato growers toward integrated, soil-first systems, and no single technology or variety will substitute for that shift.

Jul 11, 2026 · 3 min read

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Growing & Agronomy

Growing & Agronomy

potatoes.me Editorial Desk

A hyper-localised climate intelligence network is transforming potato production

South African potato growers are wiring their fields with solar-powered weather stations that feed irrigation, disease, and frost decisions in real time — and the network is about to get much bigger in Limpopo.

Jul 11, 2026 · 3 min read

Farming & Agronomy

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Growing & Agronomy

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Climate is now a potato market force – not just a farming problem

Heat, drought, and storage stress are shifting from agronomic footnotes to commercial risks that touch yield, processing quality, and supply-chain reliability across the industry.

Jul 11, 2026 · 3 min read

Farming & Agronomy

Growing & Agronomy

Growing & Agronomy

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McCain Foods Shifts From Farm-by-Farm Contracts to Landscape-Level Regenerative Agriculture Deals

McCain Foods is restructuring how it sources potatoes, moving from individual grower contracts toward landscape-level coalitions in France and the UK that pool financing and measurement across an entire region's supply chains.

Jul 11, 2026 · 4 min read