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On June 5, 2018, the United States and Indonesia reached a market access agreement that will allow U.S. fresh potatoes to be exported to Indonesia under a defined set of…

The British company Airponix, claims its new technology that grows potatoes in water will produce up to 50 times more yield than soil-grown potatoes, while at the same time using…

On June 5, the government of Mexico published a list of retaliatory tariffs in response to the Section 232 tariffs being imposed by the U.S. on steel and aluminum imports…

In Kantar Consulting’s latest report, you’ll learn about the perfect storm that will move online grocery forward in the U.S. market. The report includes how shoppers’ willingness to make trade-offs…

ADVERTISEMENT For years, Syngenta has been at the forefront of innovating new products for potato protection on a global level. Some technologies have been used reliably for almost three or…

The 2018 omnibus spending bill passed in late March includes $2.5 million dollars for National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Potato Research Special Grants that support competitive potato breeding…

The International Plant Nutrition Institute (IPNI) has released a new webinar on Youtube. Presented by IPNI Potassium Director T. Scott Murrell, the webinar is called “Crops Can Access More Potassium than is…

Potatoes USA has published a new study that revealed potatoes are America’s favorite vegetable for the second year in a row, followed by broccoli. The 2018 Consumer Attitudes and Usage…

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has granted an additional 90-day waiver from the electronic logging device (ELD) rule for agriculture-related transportation. During this time, the…

U.S. potato and potato product exports grew 4.58 percent in volume and 4.63 percent in value in 2017 compared to 2016. The 1,763,235 metric tons in total exports sets another…