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Branston has announced it is opening a mashed potato facility to produce and supply leading UK supermarkets with the prepared family favourite.
Accelerating its national ambitions within the grower, packer and processor market, machine-learning driven crop insights tool HarvestEye has secured a distributorship in Scotland – teaming with agricultural and machinery supplier Agricar.
Rome, GA. – OTR Engineered Solutions (OTR) has launched a new customer portal for online ordering. The site – otrb2b.com – now offers a convenient option for aftermarket customers to place orders any time of day.
High food prices have been on U.S. consumers’ minds for several years now. From 2019 to 2023, the food Consumer Price Index rose by about 25 percent, much of which is attributed to supply chain disruptions (USDA ERS, 2023).
FMC Corporation, a leading global agricultural sciences company, announced a collaboration with Optibrium, a leading developer of software and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for small molecule discovery. The agreement is part of FMC's strategic pl
The University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Farm and Industry Short Course program will be offering a new Farm Electrical Maintenance and Safety short course in July. The training is designed for farm owners, field managers and others who work on electrical inf
Casco, Wis. – U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that USDA is investing in domestic fertilizer projects to strengthen competition for U.S. farmers, ranchers and agricultural producers.
For nearly 100 years, the history of the farm bill largely tracks the history of food production in the United States as the legislation has evolved to meet the needs of farmers and consumers alike.
On April 11, the Environmental Protection Agency published the latest edition of the Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990-2022. The report has been published annually since 1990 and provides an annual estimate of all man-made greenho
Washington, D.C. – The Specialty Crop Farm Bill Alliance (SCFBA) has released the following statement following the U.S. House Agriculture Committee’s passage of the farm bill:
In December, the United Nations (U.N.) declared May 30 the International Day of the Potato to raise awareness and celebrate the many benefits of the tasty, nutritious, versatile spud.
The Potato Virus Initiative SCRI project has developed an annual newsletter that informs readers about various research conducted to date from researchers, Extension professionals and seed certification programs from across the country in an easy-to-read
The USDA NASS has provided an update on the U.S. potato crop in its weekly crop progress report (https://www.nass.usda.gov/) for last week. Here’s a sample of what the latest report showed.
Here is a brief look—through a handful of slides—of the potato market in Australia. The data comes from the 2022-23 Australian Horticulture Statistics Handbook.
Washington – The National Potato Council released the following statement after the U.S. House Agriculture Committee favorably reported out The Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2024:
Monheim/Rotterdam – As part of its strategic open innovation approach, global life science company Bayer has advanced two initiatives with external partners to bring forward genome editing in vegetables.