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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 ...

Our Fight Against Blight programme started in 2004 and since then ‘blight scouts’ have sent in over 10,000 samples of potentially blight infested potato plants for genotyping. Each year the results are ...

There is still little insight into agreement between the EU and the UK on mutual trade in seed potatoes. If no agreement is reached on the phytosanitary preconditions for import and export, ...

The prevalence of virus in seed potato stocks is challenging the industry and we are at a tipping point

NFU Scotland has responded consultation on Scottish seed potato exports to the EU

Growers have shunned a Scottish government proposal for a 'Scotland-specific' seed potato agreement with the EU

Growers are having to make serious decisions on what and how much to plant for the coming season

The infection currently costs the industry upwards of £25 million a year

Scottish potato growers are facing some tough decisions on what to plant over the coming weeks

Scotland-based Strategic Potato Farm activity for a second year

Wholesums, launched by the Taylor family behind Mackie's Crisps, is made through an ‘innovative slow baking process that is able to incorporate up to 45% whole fresh vegetables’.

The seed potato sector has been left disappointed by confirmation that there will be no relaxation of the EU ban on imports of seed potatoes from the UK.

In the export figures for Dutch seed potatoes, Belgium is causing a major shift compared to last year.

Ireland’s seed potato sector looks set to get a Brexit shot in the arm.

A group of farmers and researchers has developed an innovative, sustainable method of tackling a pest that threatens to “annihilate” Scotland’s potato industry within 30 years. Potato cyst nematode (PCN) is increasing ...

Wildflowers grown in strips through potato crops could control disease-carrying aphids and may help growers faced with a dwindling number of insecticides. Areas of wildflowers grown in the headlands and between tramlines ...

Farming in the north-west of Scotland can be tough enough given the somewhat challenging weather conditions, but the right machinery can make things a little easier Mike Martin runs Garguston Farm at ...

The starting point for Europe's trade relationship with the UK has begun, separately from a trade deal, with "third country status" vital to keep agricultural goods flowing across the English Channel and ...

A 4th generation farmer at Wester Braikie Farms, Arbroath, Angus. Farm of about 320 hectares, 40 hectares typically dedicated to potatoes, 60 hectares of barley, 60 hectares of winter oilseed rape and roughly ...

You cannot use what’s happening above ground as a guide to what’s happening below, according to new research into alternative desiccants. A key finding from the work is that the rate of ...

The UK potato industry has been left in no doubt about the frustrations, fears and risk attached to trading high value Scottish seed potatoes as the clock ticks down to a possible ...

Cisgenic potatoes do not provide a different soil life than classically bred potatoes. This is evident from a study by German, Irish and Wageningen researchers. The researchers planted two potato varieties on ...

Above and Beyond Award The Above and Beyond Award is for an individual recognised for making an ‘above and beyond’ contribution to the British potato industry. The recipient is Andrew Francis from Elveden Farms, ...

Recently discovered interactions between plant and viral proteins open up new avenues for making plants resistant to viruses, thus safeguarding crop yields in changing climate conditions. Many diseases caused by common plant ...

Videogame technology will be used to help develop the perfect potato as part of a ground-breaking new project involving Abertay University and a major potato seed supplier. The University has entered into ...