VegetablesUSDA figures show US potato processing reached 286 million hundredweight in 2025, with frozen products up 6%, even as the average grower price fell 90 cents to $10.80 per hundredweight.
CropsThe British Crop Production Council's October update lists new Syngenta and BASF fungicide combinations for cereals and two FMC cyantraniliprole products for potatoes and carrots ahead of 2027.
VegetablesAbout 440 mm of rain in two days left growers on Crete's Lasithi Plateau estimating potato losses of 80 percent or more weeks before harvest; they held a sit-in for compensation on 11 October.
CropsNew infestations in East Anglia prompted researchers and agronomists to warn that the UK has no coordinated way to identify and contain invasive farm weeds; here is how to recognise nutsedge.
VegetablesExtension and marketing department data show Rangpur potato growers made losses in seven of the twelve years from 2014 to 2025; the region grows a quarter of the crop but can cold-store only 22 percent of it.
AgrotechA digital twin of a Grimme potato harvester, used through VR headsets or tablets, lets operators learn the machine before the season; PepsiCo says pilots raised bruise-free potatoes by 87%.
CropsThe PLINAZOLIN-based foliar product controls Colorado potato beetle, leafhopper and European corn borer, as well as loopers, diamondback moth and mites in specialty crops, and will be sold for the 2027 season.
At Nam Cuong cooperative in Ninh Binh, mechanised direct seeding with deep fertiliser placement raised rice yields 28% to 5.65 tonnes a hectare, and machine-turned straw compost halves composting time for the potato crop.
VegetablesThe International Potato Center's director general set out its triple-gene late blight resistance and diploid hybrid potato breeding, with approvals in Rwanda and Kenya and a new South Asia centre.
VegetablesPotatoes that cost Tk 19-20 a kg once storage and transport are paid sell for Tk 14; the district's 19 cold stores still hold about 105,000 tonnes, and growers want an export push.
VegetablesTeagasc says irrigation, soil type and location are driving a wide range of yields, quality is holding up, and demand is good though costs of fuel, fertiliser and land rent are squeezing growers.
VegetablesWith 300,000 farmers in its supply chains facing drought, extreme weather and higher costs, PepsiCo is bringing growers together from 35 countries to share what works, its global agriculture procurement chief told AgNavigator.
VegetablesA weekly market update from Agricultural Market Trends finds tight supply lifting tomato and potato prices, while onions, still 264% dearer than a year ago, may soon ease.
