Potatoes News

OMEX is a trusted partner for potato growers, providing high-quality liquid fertilisers and expert crop nutrition services that help produce high-yielding, top-quality potato crops.

A new chemistry-free solution for potato and cover crop desiccation will be available in the UK this year. David Williams reports.

After more than three decades of service to the potato supply industry, Richard Clark, commercial director at Branston, has announced his retirement. 

Defra’s latest Farm Business Income report predicts which sectors will see a rise or fall in income over 2024/25.

Branston, potato supplier and one of the sponsors of the primary school-based farm-to-fork initiative, is once again encouraging schools to sign up for the Grow Your Own Potatoes programme.

Trials carried out by Orion Future Technologies, working with Hutchinsons and Richard Austin Agriculture, have revealed how the application of silicon biostimulants can have a positive effect on potato yields and improve the plant’s natural defence to late blight.

“Successful potato production requires continual innovation and improvement as the market and threats to production are ever-changing,” said the organisers of the annual SAC Association of Potato Producers conference that will take place in February. 

Ahead of the festive season, potato supplier Branston has once again launched its innovative hybrid Nemo spud to support demand for volume and faster cooking times. 

Maxstim recently collaborated on a scientific research paper with Queen’s University Belfast, assessing the impact of its flavonoid-rich, complex biostimulant formula.

Potato growers have not been left without help thanks to AKP Group that offers an end-to-end complete potato supply chain.

Omnivent offers advice around what the ideal potato storage process should look like.

An Essex-based importer and stockist of EP lithium-ion forklifts, Armill Lift Trucks, is at the forefront of advancing lithium-ion technology in the materials handling sector.