Potatoes
25 January 2021
£2.3m on agronomy programmes, £500k on storage research. How your levy is invested and the services it provides. Includes a breakdown of how much of the levy is invested in each area.
10 February 2021
A series of online agronomy sessions are being held in January and February aimed at farmers in Scotland.
22 January 2021
Findings on where reductions in costs or increases to yield can be made in cultivation practice.
22 January 2021
AHDB’s Storage Research team discusses the results from the SPot Farm trials looking at the dormancy of 40 popular varieties.
22 January 2021
Reflecting on the 2020 trials with agronomist, Graham Tomalin, SPot East host, Mike Shapland and SPot Scotland host Jim Reid.
22 January 2021
There is also the continuing issue of newer strains of the blight pathogen evolving.
22 January 2021
With free movement of labour ending on 31 December 2020, food and farming sectors, particularly horticulture, could be facing a huge challenge to source labour in the coming months.
22 January 2021
Methods of using integrated pest management in the control of aphids and virus transmission in potato crops
22 January 2021
Many sectors have not seen much pick-up in demand from the week previous. As retail markets work through remnants of Christmas stocks, there is hope some demand creation could be seen soon.
22 January 2021
Explore the work from our Strategic Potato farms.