Potato Review

www.potatoreview.com POTATO REVIEW NOVEMBER 2021 69 INDUSTRY UPDATES MONKTON Court Farms recently became the latest potato grower to receive Haith’s next-generation mobile grading system. Philip Smith grows Desiree and King Edward potatoes across 60 hectares in East Kent. His previous grader was purchased in 1999 and had reached the end of its natural life, becoming slow and inaccurate. The 6.6m long grader, which can handle up to 30 tonnes per hour, features a Supaflow bulker that feeds a Haith EvolutionMulti- Separator with six spiral shafts and clod roller scrapers to effectively remove soil, clod and haulm. The covered inspection unit can accommodate six people. The bunker, separator and inspection area are covered. ABP Immingham recently took delivery of the UK’s largest shipment of liquid nitrogen rawmaterial (UAN), destined for the OMEX dedicated processing, storage and distribution terminal located at the port. The 50,000mt DWT vessel is earmarked for OMEX customers fromNorth Lincolnshire to the Scottish Borders and mirrors OMEX’s earlier largest shipments into the ports of Ipswich and Dundee of 13,000 tonnes and 10,000 tonnes respectively. This shipment was one of a number scheduled to arrive across OMEX’s nationwide network of 10 distribution hubs. CORTEVA and Gaïago, a biotechnology company, has announced a multi-year agreement to validate, develop and commercialise biofungicides for growers worldwide. Corteva provides seed, crop protection and digital solutions while French company Gaïago provides solutions based on soil revitalisation, seed and plant health. Through the agreement, Corteva Agriscience receives an exclusive, global testing licence and associated optional commercial rights for a novel biofungicide technology that can help protect potatoes against pathogens such as downy mildew, late blight, powdery mildew and botrytis. Corteva’s model for developing its biologicals portfolio combines external innovation, R&D collaboration, licensing, and distribution. Monkton court farms take delivery of mobile grader Corteva to expand biologicals portfolio Omex receives uk’s largest uan shipment NETHERLANDS company Manter, which manufactures high capacity automatic industrial packaging machines for potatoes, vegetables & fruit, is launching the Service & Parts App to help to make machine management and maintenance easy. The new app makes managing and requesting (spare) parts easier as it can be done using a mobile phone or tablet. The app is developed in close collaboration withManter dealers. Service Engineer Burghard van Bekkem, said: “The paper parts manual is often not at hand, or it’s not entirely clear which part it concerns. That won’t be any problemwith our new app, just go to the 3Dmodel of your machine and look it up.” The app is free to download from the App Store (IOS) and Play Store (Android). New app facilitates parts and service demands