Protecting your crop: Potato seed hygiene
Maintaining proper seed hygiene is one of the simplest and most effective ways to protect your potato crop from pests and diseases. This factsheet outlines essential practices to keep your seed clean, healthy, and ready for planting.
Protecting your crop: Handling potato seed
Good crops start with great seed. This factsheet outlines best practices for handling seed potatoes — from selection to planting — to help you get the most out of your crop.
Seed Sourcing & Purchasing Checklist
A potato crop is only as good as the seed. Follow this checklist to ensure the quality and integrity of the valuable seed potatoes being purchased. Though it requires extra effort, it’s crucial for successful planting and crop production, ensuring your investment pays off.
Seed potatoes
As every vegetable grower understands, all good crops start with good seed, and potatoes are no exception. However, potato tubers, unlike many other seeds, need considerable care and attention to optimise results. This PotatoLink magazine special feature covers seed age, diseases, storage, cutting, treatment, and certification.
Soil Biology Master Class 2021 (Part 2 of 4): Soil biology and control of soil-borne pathogens
In this second soil biology masterclass, Dr. Calum Wilson explains about the good, the bad and ugly ones in the soil and how they interact, and what you can do to keep them in balance to protect your potato crop.
The role of biologics in soil health & enhancing crop productivity in potatoes
Albert Schirring covers the role of biologicals in soil health and the opportunities in enhancing crop productivity in potatoes.
Growing right SA – Serious about seed, how to get a better crop stand
Dom Cavallaro (Stoller), Ian Simpson (Mitolo), Nigel Crump (AuSPICA) and Peter Philp (PotatoLink) discuss seed management, quality and timing of supply and how quality seed is the foundation of profitable potato production.