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  2. History of the potato - Wikipedia

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    Potatoes comprised about 10% of the caloric intake of Europeans. Along with several other foods that either originated in the Americas or were successfully grown or harvested there, potatoes sustained European populations. [47] The potato promoted economic development in Britain by underpinning the Industrial Revolution in the 19th century. It ...

  3. European potato failure - Wikipedia

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    The European potato failure was a food crisis caused by potato blight that struck Northern and Western Europe in the mid-1840s. The time is also known as the Hungry Forties . While the crisis produced excess mortality and suffering across the affected areas, particularly affected were the Scottish Highlands , with the Highland Potato Famine and ...

  4. Cereal growth staging scales - Wikipedia

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    Late milk Dough development 80 - 83: 14.0: Early dough 85: 11.2: Soft dough 87: 15.0: Hard dough Ripening 90 - 91: 11.3: Kernel hard (difficult to divide with thumbnail) 92: 11.4: 16.0: Kernel hard (no longer dented with thumbnail) 93: Kernel loosening in daytime 94: Overripe, straw dead and collapsing 95: Seed dormant 96: Viable seed giving 50 ...

  5. Phytophthora infestans - Wikipedia

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    Phytophthora infestans is an oomycete or water mold, a fungus-like microorganism that causes the serious potato and tomato disease known as late blight or potato blight. Early blight , caused by Alternaria solani , is also often called "potato blight".

  6. History of agriculture - Wikipedia

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    Maize, potatoes, sweet potatoes and manioc were the key crops that spread from the New World to the Old, while varieties of wheat, barley, rice and turnips traveled from the Old World to the New. There had been few livestock species in the New World, with horses, cattle, sheep and goats being completely unknown before their arrival with Old ...

  7. Umatilla Russet - Wikipedia

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    Umatilla Russet (/ ˌ juː m ə ˈ t ɪ l ə /, YOO-mə-TIL-ə) is a moderately late maturing variety of potato especially suitable for frozen french fries processing. [1] It was jointly released by the Agricultural Experiment Station of Oregon, Idaho, and Washington and the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 1998. [2] '

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  9. Lazy bed - Wikipedia

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    Lazy bed (Irish: ainneor or iompú; Scottish Gaelic: feannagan [ˈfjan̪ˠakən]; Faroese: letivelta) is a traditional method of arable cultivation, often used for potatoes. Rather like cord rig cultivation, parallel banks of ridge and furrow are dug by spade although lazy beds have banks that are bigger, up to 2.5 metres (8 ft 2 in) in width ...