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AHDB recommends residual potato levy funds to be used for industry projects The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) is advocating for the strategic allocation of residual potato levy funds to bolster ...

A meeting of Scottish seed potato growers in Forfar the past week has agreed to set up a co-op to represent the sector. As John Sleigh reports for The Scottish Farmer, the new body, which ...

The AHDB Petitioners welcome the Government’s response to the consultation confirming that the potato and horticulture sectors levies will be lifted. However, as predicted, engagement levels with farmers and growers have been ...

Herbicides are still the main weeds control option

The AHDB Petitioners – vegetable, flower and potato growers in the UK who voted to abolish a statutory levy on horticulture and potato production – say that recent comments by the Growers ...

According to a report by Farmers Weekly’s Philip Clarke, the AHDB is warning potato growers who failed to submit a 2021 potato planting return form and who refuse to pay this year’s levy that they ...

The team behind Scotland’s seed potato monitor farm near St Cyrus is undeterred by the lights going out at AHDB Potatoes. Nancy Nicolson reports for The Courier that the four-year SPot Farm project may have been blighted ...

An annual inspection of buildings and hardware is an important step in store preparation before the new potato crop can come in for the winter, according to AHDB Potatoes. For practicality, this ...

Potato growers are being asked to reveal what they liked about AHDB Potatoes – ahead of it being wound down. Earlier this year, levy payers voted on whether they wanted the levy-funded ...

From water management methods to research project results, our resources will help you to decide when and how to irrigate.   Why do we irrigate? Water is applied to potato crops to ...

AHDB will present the latest results from its Strategic Potato (SPot) farm

If potato growers decide they no longer want to pay the £42.62 per hectare levy, then the potato part of the AHDB will likely cease.

After some 36 years with AHDB and its predecessor organisations, Potato Specialist Mike Storey is going to retire at Christmas. His colleague Adrian Cunnington looks back... Dr R.M.J. (Mike) Storey has been ...

Bill Watts has joined AHDB as Arable Knowledge Exchange Manager (Potatoes) for the West Midlands, South West and Wales. Having recently completed his PhD, Bill has extensive research experience in crop management ...

The latest data on in-store airflow, tuber respiration and sprout suppression is included in the 3rd edition of Sutton Bridge Crop Storage Research’s (SBCSR) Potato Store Managers’ Guide. The guide is written ...

Earlier this month, AHDB secured nine emergency authorisations for potato, herb, celery, carrot, parsnip, cherry and plum for UK growers to protect their crops. The 120-day authorisations were issued in response to ...

The weather has not been kind to potato growers in the United Kingdom. AHDB potatoes offers some helpful tips and guidance to make it a successful potato growing season nevertheless. Patience Claire ...

With the frying trade accounting for 12% of the Great Britain potato crop, ensuring quality across the sector has never been more important. In a bid to help the chip shop industry ...

Haulm destruction in potatoes can be achieved by mechanical or chemical methods or using a combination of the two. Bed formation and machinery set-up If considering a combined mechanical and spray approach, ...

Controlling disease is a fundamental component of storage management. Few diseases originate in store. They mostly come from two primary sources: the seedor the soil. However, many of the disease problems affecting ...

Powdery scab (Spongospora subterranea) is a fungal blemish disease of potatoes (https://gd.eppo.int/taxon/SPONSU). The “powder” is comprised of spore balls (cystosori) that are released into the soil and can survive up to ten ...

Potato late blight is one of the most devastating diseases of potato. In conventional potato production, this mainly controls through a lot of applications of chemical fungicides. Overuse of such products has ...

The main virus species in many potato growing regions is Potato Virus Y (PVY). Primary infection of PVY occurs in the growing season and is aphid-borne. The Peach-potato aphid, Myzus persicae, is ...

This article provides detailed insights from AHDB on optimizing potato cultivation and storage, covering airflow analysis, respiration rates, sprout suppression, disease identification, condensation control, and storage temperatures.