A harvest update and strategies for dessicating potato crops
Desiccating potato crops are the topic on this week’s Tillage Edge with Ciaran Collins joined by Shay Phelan, Teagasc Potato Specialist to discuss in more detail. Firstly Shay gives an update on how crops are progressing as we approach harvest and he then highlights that there are significant challenges facing growers this year with high disease pressure, deteriorating ground conditions and limited options making desiccating crops more difficult. For many growers this will be the first year that they will try to desiccate a crop without the use of diquat so Shay discusses the alternative…
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