Dutch Crop tour Potatoes and onions
Boerenbusiness Crop tour 2022 has started
Growers of potatoes and onions are warming up on the plots this early spring. High time to kick off with the Boerenbusiness Crop tour 2022† The unofficial start was on Thursday 10 March with a meeting for the participating growers and partners of the Crop Tour in Dronten. There will also be several new faces in the coming growing season.
Just like last season, we are following ten potato plots with the Innovator variety and eight plots with yellow seed onions, spread throughout the Netherlands. Three new arable farmers are taking part: two of these are potato growers: Daan Goense and his daughter Jeanine from Driewegen (Zeeland). They grow potatoes on the Zeeland clay and participate in their Innovator plot. René Haaijer makes his debut at the Gewastour onions in Veelerveen (Groningen), a contractor in seed onions and an experienced onion grower himself.
The partners of the Crop Tour were also present and will provide the participants with knowledge and advice next season. So is the new partner AgroExact, where co-founder Sven Boogaard came to explain. AgroExact provides the weather stations on the Crop Tour plots, so that the participants have easy insight into all the climate conditions of the plots. Some of this data will also be available on the Crop tour page† After the kick-off, there was an interesting company excursion on the program at the company of potato grower Jacco van Liere in Dronten (Flevoland), who is again participating this year with a plot of Innovator. During the excursion, Van Liere talked about his way of growing on 500 hectares, but also his storage strategy and what it involves.
Season has started
At the moment (Tuesday 15 March) the first growers of the Crop Tour are already in the fields. In the south in particular, the momentum is good in early spring, driven by the sunny weather. Growers are busy with the tillage, but also see many onions being sown. For example, onion grower Martijn Derikx from Ysselsteyn (Limburg) is busy sowing in the area. But onion grower René Haaijer in Veelerveen, who sows a lot of onions in Groningen and Drenthe, also reports that it is already busy. At the potato growers, the planter is still in the shed, but the first participants expect to start next week when the seed potatoes have arrived.
Robin Winter
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