Luonnosta is visiting Fruit Logistica in Berlin on Wednesday the 3rd and Thursday the 4th of February. If you would like to meet us, please give us a call or send a message and we can set up a meeting. We will also visit the Potato Evening (Kartoffelabend) on Tuesday. There will be Antti Kuusisto (+358 400 256 367), Olga Andreeva (+358 40 709 4843) and Aki Aunola (+358 44 561 7897) visiting the fair. Fruit Logistica is the biggest...

22 January, 2016

Finnish Potato Growers will have their own association for cooperation and promotion as of Thursday the 21st of January. The association's founding meeting will be held on that day during Finnish Potato Research Institutes winter seminar. The new organization is supposed to actively promote Finnish potato to consumers and buyers as well as support potato research. The organization will receive seed funding from the Finnish state....

15 January, 2016

Luonnosta's office is closed on Wednesday the 6th of January due to a public holiday. We'll be at the office again on Thursday....

05 January, 2016

The educational site TED-Ed has published a great animation highlighting the relationship between potato and historical events during the last couple of centuries. You get to learn, for example, about the role of potato in Irish population growth and famine. You can take a look at the animation on TED-Ed's site....

30 December, 2015

Antti, Olga, Kyösti, Heidi, Aki and Luonnosta's own Christmas elf (pictured below with his bag of gifts) wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! ...

21 December, 2015

Potato has taken more than its fair share of hits recently, but the rehabilitation seems to have begun. More often than not you can see articles telling about the beneficial effects of potato on health. Most recently a big Finnish newspaper Iltalehti published an article titled Potatoes Are More Healthy Than Their Reputation Suggests. These kind of articles sure are good for the humble spud in the fight for space on consumers plates. We all know that potato is rich...

14 December, 2015

Central European potato markets are still quiet even though there is export demand from some Eastern European countries. The yields in e.g. the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Germany were eventually quite normal, even though the summer was extremely dry and hot. At the moment the supply is still quite big compared to demand. One reason is that some growers are trying to get rid of batches that might deteriorate in quality if stored for too long. Price level has not...

09 December, 2015

We had a chance to taste the colourful Perupas potatoes at the office. These multi-coloured varieties sure bring joy to the table. These would do well in parties, for example. ...

27 November, 2015

Finnish Potato Industry will today gather to a cruise seminar on a ferry to Tallinn, Estonia. Luonnosta's Sales Director Antti Kuusisto will be giving a presentation on potato markets and future trends. The seminar is organized by Finnish branch magazine Puutarha-Sanomat and we'll most definitely see articles about the seminar in coming editions....

18 November, 2015

Yesterday's quality analyses revealed, unsurprisingly, potatoes from both ends of the quality spectrum. There are very nice looking potatoes as well as potatoes with excellent inner quality. On the other hand there are also potatoes of very dissappointing quality. Below are pictures of three different varieties to give an idea about the variation. All potatoes were judged by inner and outer quality and the dry matter content was measured. ...

03 November, 2015