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Tillage Podcast: potatoes, harvest yields and winter area
Siobhán Walsh
On this week’s podcast, we hear from the National Potato Conference and have all the latest on the new potato blight strain.
11 September 2024 News
Growers urged to be vigilant for new potato blight strain
The EU43 strain of potato blight, first recorded in Ireland last year, has been causing concern for potato grower throughout the country after outbreaks of the pathogen in Europe.
20 August 2024 News
Met Éireann announces nationwide blight warning
This also comes after a new blight strain EU43, which is resistant to some fungicides, has caused concern among potato farmers this year.
Royal Irish Academy hosting public lecture on potato famine pathogen
The lecture will explore the migrations and spread of the pathogen Phytophthora infestans, which entered the shores of Ireland in 1845 and devastated the potato crop.
20 August 2024 News
Status yellow blight warning issued
A potato blight advisory warning is in effect for 26 counties across Ireland.
31 July 2024 l2