Know How / Potatoes

In a tough potato market, our potatoes page aims to help you grow a more profitable crop in the face of rising inputs and volatile markets.

This is your starting point for addressing challenges such as disease and weed control, finding ways of managing pests, exploring precision farming and protecting the environment.

Key areas of focus:

  • Getting establishment right
  • Planning fungicide strategy
  • Keeping on top of weeds
  • Meeting market specifications
  • Planning irrigation schedules

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POTATOES

Elicitors offer fresh thinking amid blight control complexity

Late blight control in potatoes is becoming an increasingly complex balancing act, as growers face a shrinking fungicide armoury and an evolving, aggressive pathogen that leaves little margin for error.…

DISEASE MANAGEMENT

What farmers can do to minimise rising alternaria threat

A combination of factors is thought to be behind the rise in alternaria in the key potato-growing region, covering Shropshire, Cheshire and into Lancashire, over the past three to four…

POTATOES

How McCain is using a demo farm to reach its regen targets

A farm in Yorkshire is the home of the third global “Farm of the Future” launched by prepared potato product manufacturer McCain, following others in Canada and South Africa. The…

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