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It is likely the virus yellows forecast for the sugar beet crop will be ‘high risk’ for a second successive year.

With potato growers having to cope with a ban on the use of CIPC effective from this autumn, AHDB is offering free one-to-one potato store visits via its new Storage Network.

Spring is just around the corner and it’s very noticeable that winter cereals and grass are greening up, but that’s not surprising when we look at how warm the soil temperatures are for the time of the year.

Potato growers are being urged to prepare now for changes in the potato seed treatment line-up this spring, as product choices and application options have narrowed.

Scottish seed potato growers have come out strongly in defence of their production standards amid accusations of unacceptable viral infection in 2019 crops.

With a new decade of challenges and opportunities ahead in the potato sector, the 30th Cambridge University Potato Growers Research Association (CUPGRA) conference at Robinson College focused on building business resilience.