Red Tractor are looking for industry feedback on potential changes to the Safe Haven Standards, the seed potato assurance scheme in the UK. New standards likely to be added to the scheme cover areas […]
In such a challenging season for potato blight in Britain, application techniques have shown the potential to make a significant difference in preventing disease infection and maintaining a cleaner, greener crop canopy. […]
University of Idaho Associate Professor of Entomology Erik Wenninger and his lab are monitoring the pests in fields throughout southern Idaho and studying them at U of I’s Research and Extension Center […]
The Feed the Future Biotechnology Potato Partnership says in its latest Quarterly Update that it is testing one of it’s two 3 R-gene late blight resistant potato varieties in field trials this […]
This is the question that Dr Eugenia Banks from Ontario in Canada put to the readers of her email newsletter earlier today. Dr Banks is a potato specialist with the Ontario Potato […]
A Shropshire grower is trying to limit the damaging effect of heavy cultivations for potato crops to his light soils through the use of cover crops. He has seen worm numbers increase […]
Late blight has been found in several potato fields near Paul, Idaho, the Pacific Northwest Pest Alert Network reports. Capital Press says in an article published today that sporulation was observed on […]
Scottish potato growers have been warned that there might not be a seed industry in Scotland in 30 years’ time if the spread of potato cyst nematode (PCN) continues at its current […]
Mary Magnuson has spent a good amount of her summer scouting for insects. The entomology student is serving a summer internship at the University of Wisconsin-Arlington Agricultural Research Station. The Minnesota native […]
A wet and warm start to August has heightened the potato blight risk in Scotland. During a week of almost back-to-back Hutton periods, advisory group Scottish Agronomy found a wave of active […]
Plant scientists have warned that unless the industry unites in its efforts to stop the spread of potato cyst nematode (CPN) there will be no Scottish potato sector left in 25 years’ […]
Chinese and Scottish researchers are to work together and explore joint solutions to potato breeding and to pests and diseases that cause major losses to farmers and industry across the world. A […]
In mid-July, a new variety of potato named Alliston was officially registered with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, making it the first tater in history to take its name from the potato […]
AHDB Potatoes in the UK is to host a range of events designed to help growers finetune their desiccation programmes following the loss of diquat. Sales of the widely used desiccant stopped […]
Harper Adams University is due to host its fifth Symposium of Potato Cyst Nematode (PCN) Management in September with speakers and attendees from across the globe. The event, which is held every […]
During a week of almost back-to-back Hutton periods, Scottish Agronomy has found a wave of active blight foci in Scottish crops. Conditions were blight conducive throughout Scotland’s potato growing areas for the […]
The tatties are small, knobbly and tasteless but a rare breed of potato has been revealed as a super-spud. Scientists hope the Solanum x edinense – or Edinburgh potato – can help […]
