Growing potatoes doesn’t have to be complicated or exhausting. James Prigioni, a seasoned gardener and TikTok creator, has shared a simple and highly effective way to grow a huge harvest of potatoes ...

avoiding the same location at least three years in a row. Potatoes are also known to deplete nitrogen in the soil due to ...

Today the potato is the fifth most important crop worldwide, after wheat, corn, rice and sugar cane. But in the 18th century the tuber was a startling novelty, frightening to some, bewildering to ...

Hello, Mid-Ohio Valley farmers and gardeners. Spring is definitely here! The forsythia is out in full bloom, along with some ...

Having already destroyed most of Ireland's crop, the blight appears in Scotland. Before long it provokes a famine. Video: A history of Scotland: This Land is Our Land.

As I mentioned in my column last week, I am not a farmer, but an agricultural economist working in sustainable ag research.

Each year the farmer grows potatoes in a different field. Moving the potato crop around means the soil stays healthy for other crops. Even though potatoes had been eaten in other places for ...

The most effective concentration was 20%, applied in a 30-centimetre band over the potato row, at 300 litres per hectare ... “If you can get it on before the crop emerges … you can get weed control ...

OTTAWA, ON, March 13, 2025 /CNW/ - The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is committed to helping contain, control, and prevent the spread of potato wart. The new National Potato Wart Response ...

No change in ownership or production occurred in the public-private partnership, Gevens said. The Starks farm will produce its usual crop of seed potatoes in 2023, and research has not slowed or ...