Tag: nematodes in potato fields

Root lesion nematode is a tiny pest, about one millimetre in length. But it has an outsized ability to damage ...

 Weed pressure was low this year and damage from nematodes was not too bad. Next year, the roles may be reversed ...

The sanitary strategy begins with the soil work and the choice of the potato variety. It is convenient to analyze possible ...

New research on Prince Edward Island is using mustard and arugula to tackle pest problems in potato fields with a side ...

Potato cyst nematode (PCN) is the UK’s primary potato pest

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

Green manures can be used, among other things, to combat certain types of nematodes.

On-farm innovation helps put nematicide in the right place

Growers using Nemathorin for the first time this spring to control nematodes in potato crops are being urged to carefully ...

Teagasc and IPM Potato Group have recently released a new potato variety which is resistant to potato cyst nematode (PCN)

A group of farmers and researchers has developed an innovative, sustainable method of tackling a pest that threatens to “annihilate” ...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — U.S. officials have released a new plan involving methods to deal with a microscopic pest in ...

Through the Innovative Farmers programme, four farmers located in Shropshire and Lancashire are looking at an alternative control method that ...

A sequenced approach using a liquid nematicide with a new mode of action along with an existing granular product is ...

There are a variety of nematodes that damage Florida potatoes. These plant-parasitic nematodes are small, microscopic roundworms that feed on ...

Although metam fumigants—metam sodium and metam potassium—have proven to be extremely reliable for suppressing weeds, disease and nematodes in potato ...