Written by Charlotte Cunningham
Keeping potato crops stress-free is vital to protect yield and quality potential, and an amino acid based biostimulant could give crops an essential boost over the coming months, according to Interagro. Charlotte Cunningham reports. Healthy potato crops often lead to healthy, profitable harvests. But in a year where mother nature just keeps on giving, keeping crops in optimum condition is a challenge that is quickly becoming a nightmare for most potato growers and their agronomists. And it’s not just farmers and agronomists feeling the stress; crops are also now feeling the heat too – and the drought, frost damage, wind blow, very high UV levels, and not to mention the herbicide damage to some crops. “With rainfall at 64% of the national average for March/April, and May shaping-up to be the driest on record, drought stress will be a major problem where crops remain unirrigated,” explains Stuart Sutherland, technical manager at Interagro. “Only certain varieties will be able to cope and any further extremes, wet or heat, will exacerbate the stress impact on the crop “Temperature stress can affect potato crops at any time during the growing cycle. Fluctuations in temperature between hot and cold, as we have experienced recently, lead…
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