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CPM finds out more about AHDB Potatoes new guide to help potato growers test for Potato Cyst Nematode (PCN), a pest that costs the industry over £25m each year. The release of PCN: Sampling and laboratory guide draws on AHDB funded research, conducted by Science and Advice for Scottish Agriculture (SASA) and BioSS, measuring the effectiveness of soil sampling techniques ahead of PCN testing. In a further effort to ensure the guide offered practical and relevant advice, AHDB ran through the results of its research at a conference, which was attended by over 40 prominent agronomists and researchers with a keen interest in PCN. Dr Sue Cowgill, Senior Scientist at AHDB, who chaired the conference, said: “The research provides clear and usable results, and the conference allowed us to discuss these with those out in the field and provide an open forum to gain opinions on the most effective way to share the information with growers.” Data from statutory sampling and recent AHDB funded research, conducted at Harper Adams University, had shown that PCN is moving into areas and fields where it has not previously been found. “PCN is a damaging pest, and once it is in your soil, it…
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