Potatoes

Growers offered chance to come together at Potatoes in Practice

Arable

Growers offered chance to come together at Potatoes in Practice

Event aims to facilitate the adoption of practices that enhance sustainability and resilience in farming

clock 13 June 2025 • 2 min read
Russia faces potato shortage

Farm Business

Russia faces potato shortage

clock 10 June 2025 • 1 min read
New GB Potatoes partnership opens door to crop protection

Arable

New GB Potatoes partnership opens door to crop protection

Collaboration will bring sector-wide benefits, says industry body

clock 08 June 2025 • 2 min read
International Day of the Potato: celebrating one of the world's most important and versatile crops

Potatoes

International Day of the Potato: celebrating one of the world's most important and versatile crops

The theme of International Day of Potato in 2025 'Shaping history, feeding the future'

clock 30 May 2025 • 2 min read
Farming Matters: Helen Fisher – "The fields, sodden all winter, are now dry as the desert'"

Farm Life

Farming Matters: Helen Fisher – "The fields, sodden all winter, are now dry as the desert'"

Helen Fisher, an arable farmer based on a family farm in Atherstone, Warwickshire, writes about the unpredictability of the weather and its impact on farming

clock 24 May 2025 • 3 min read
Farm fined after worker's leg trapped in a potato harvester

Rural crime

Farm fined after worker's leg trapped in a potato harvester

According to the Health and Safety Executive, the unnamed employee had been assessing a blockage in a potato harvester machine

clock 21 May 2025 • 2 min read
Vigilance urged as potato industry faces Colorado beetle threat

Arable

Vigilance urged as potato industry faces Colorado beetle threat

APHA heads to RHS Chelsea Flower Show to explain risk to growers

clock 20 May 2025 • 2 min read
Potato project continues to tackle aphid levels

Arable

Potato project continues to tackle aphid levels

Supplier Albert Bartlett will compile data looking specifically at virus pressure

clock 12 May 2025 • 2 min read
Growers' hopes raised as potato crops go into ground ahead of schedule

Arable

Growers' hopes raised as potato crops go into ground ahead of schedule

But as the dry spell continues, concerns over irrigation mount

clock 30 April 2025 • 2 min read
Potatoes: trials day focuses on post-emergence herbicides, wireworm and catch crops

Arable

Potatoes: trials day focuses on post-emergence herbicides, wireworm and catch crops

Newer varieties thought to show better resistance, according to agronomist

clock 26 April 2025 • 4 min read