Potatoes

Potato planting three weeks ahead of 2024

The Irish Farmers Journal spoke to potato farmers and industry representatives to assess how planting is progressing and if there will be a shortage of potatoes this year.

NEWS 30 April 2025

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Potato planting surges ahead of maize and beet

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Strict guidelines remain for blight control, new product available

Strict guidelines remain for blight control, new product available

As fungicide products become harder to come by and resistance strains continue to cause problems in potatoes guidelines need to be adhered to.

NEWS 27 November 2024

Spring planting continues

Spring planting continues

Spring planting is well ahead of recent years and spring barley continues to be planted across the country this week.

NEWS 27 November 2024

Crops extravaganza date set for June

Crops extravaganza date set for June

The biennial open day will focus on spraying, new technologies and potato desiccation this year.

NEWS 27 November 2024

Two decades of reliability with Rauch spreaders on large Louth tillage farm

Two decades of reliability with Rauch spreaders on large Louth tillage farm

Spreading thousands of acres annually with two Rauch Axis spreaders, Gary Abbott spoke with Gerard Hickey to find out why Rauch has been the spreader brand of choice since 2004.

FARM MACHINERY 27 November 2024

Strengthening the Irish potato and vegetable sectors

Strengthening the Irish potato and vegetable sectors

Nuffield scholar and agronomist Thomas Murray travelled from Canada to Australia, the US and beyond, to find out what can be done to strengthen the Irish potato and vegetable sectors.

FEATURE 27 November 2024

Tillage Podcast: potatoes, harvest yields and winter area

Tillage Podcast: potatoes, harvest yields and winter area

On this week’s podcast, we hear from the National Potato Conference and have all the latest on the new potato blight strain.

NEWS 27 November 2024

Resistance to new blight strain a concern

Resistance to new blight strain a concern

Irish farmers can learn lessons from others' experience of the Revus and Zorvec-resistant blight strain that emerged in Denmark, the national potato conference heard.

NEWS 27 November 2024

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