University of Idaho Extension has published a new bulletin to help potato farmers recognize the symptoms of bacterial rot and protect their operations from the devastating crop disease. Idaho hasn’t ...

A group of researchers is turning to AI to try to combat potato blight, a disease that has led to around 20% of global potato crop losses amounting to financial losses of over $4.5 billion. The new AI ...

An innovative method of controlling a range of damaging crop diseases using native, beneficial soil bacteria has emerged from a research-industry collaboration. An innovative method of controlling a ...

If you’ve been into a fish and chip shop in the last twelve months, you may well have seen a notice tacked to the wall about the impact of the potato shortage. Supermarkets, too, slapped temporary ...

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A potato blight caused hardship for rural communities in 1845. Today, climate change is creating new threats, but there are ...

Hassan Were (in red) plant pathologist at Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology explain to Lesley Torrance from St. Andrews at United Kingdom University the Asante gynotype of Irish ...

Potato farming is a profitable venture with a luring potential of two to three harvests in a year. According to experts, the farming thrives in highland areas with temperatures ranging from 20 to 30 ...

As president of both the Mississippi and U.S. sweet potato councils, Caleb Englert knows the impact this year’s expected ...

THIS is a substantial piece of work, born of wartime anxiety over possible inadequacy of potato seed supplies for necessary expansion in the acreage devoted to this crop. English growers import each ...