Potato growers face a persistent late-season threat: aerial stem rot (ASR), a bacterial disease primarily caused by Pectobacterium carotovorum. Often emerging after thunderstorms and other weather ...

The UK National Farmers’ Union has warned that organic potato producers are under threat from proposed EU legislation against copper-based fungicides. NFU organic committee chairman Oliver Dowding ...

A group of UK retailers have promised to sell only organic potatoes grown without copper fungicides in a moved that’s claimed will boost sustainability and farm resilience for producers, and ...

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