Nuffield announce new award for horticulture
The Nuffield Farming Scholarships Trust is delighted to announce a new award for this year,…
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Protect early rapid growth for a blight free season
This season’s late planted potato crops, which have been slow to get going in cool…
Key horticultural insecticide re-authorised
CRD has re-authorised Bayer insecticide Envidor (spirodiclofen) for use on apple and pear. Bayer product…
Make fruit and veg available wherever consumers are choosing food, says NFU
The NFU has launched a new report, setting out 34 recommendations for increasing the consumption…
Bayer to increase Artist availability in response to demand
Bayer is to increase the quantities of its potato herbicide Artist (flufenacet + metribuzin) this…
Call for expert attention in store following extreme seasonal challenges for GB potato stocks
In a difficult 2015/16 storage season, AHDB’s event, hosted by Sutton Bridge Crop Storage Research…
Record warm winter weather reinvigorates Blight vigilance
Blight generated strong debate at AHDB Potatoes’ Winter Forums held this January, as award winning…
£150k potato storage fellowship cultivates fruit research
Capitalising on work from the horticulture sector, Dr Richard Colgan, leading post-harvest physiologist at the…
Thousands attend GB’s flagship potato event BP2015
The entire potato industry gathered at Harrogate International Centre, North Yorkshire 12 and 13 November…
Potato Industry CIPC Stewardship Group urge industry to prepare for 2017
Speaking at BP2015 in Harrogate Dr Storey, Chair of the Potato Industry CIPC Stewardship Group…