Nitrogen fertiliser price and supply: management options in difficult conditions
In this Soil Wealth & Integrated Crop Protection (SWICP) webinar recording, you’ll hear from Kelvin Montagu, Doris Blaesing and Marc Hinderager about management options for the vegetable industry covering topics such as adding nitrogen using legumes, optimising fertiliser practices, reducing nitrogen fertiliser losses, soil testing and crop monitoring.
PotatoLink Bulletin January 2022
Project update from Peter O’Brien, potato grower tour to Scotland and Ireland – EOI, potato grower tour to Scotland and Ireland – EOI, and much more.
Cover crops for fresh market and processing potatoes in Australia
Potato grower, Darren Long and Dr Kelvin Montagu talk all things cover crops and discuss how they can assist with building up soil health – including practical tips & tricks!
Early Blight & Brown Spot of potatoes - symptoms, epidemiology & management
In this PotatoLink Disease Webinar series No. 2, join Jacquie van der Waals, Associate Professor, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Pretoria South Africa as she discusses symptoms, epidemiology & management of Early Blight & Brown Spot.
Precision agriculture for the potato industry - Imagery is more than just pretty pictures
PotatoLink team member Frank Mulcahy discusses historical mapping and crop conformance, redictive crop modelling, pioneering Variable Rate Irrigation (VRI) on farm and results from finished 2 year project on spatial variability in potato crops.
Soil Biology Master Class 2021 (Part 4 of 4): Panel session with potato growers sharing their experiences, including Q&A
Watch this panel discussion and the last soil biology masterclass with potato growers across Australia and see many of your questions answered.
Soil Biology Master Class 2021 (Part 3 of 4): Managing soil nitrogen
The third soil biology masterclass was delivered by PotatoLink team member Marc Hinderager, looking into nitrogen availability in potato and cover crops, and its impact on soil biology.
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.
Soil Biology Master Class 2021 (Part 1 of 4): The fundamentals of soil biology
The first soil biology masterclass was delivered by Dr. Kelvin Montagu, looking at the linkage between key soil functions and soil biology, and the interactions between plant roots and soil biology.
Menaces in potato soil - the common scab story
In this PotatoLink Disease Webinar Series No 1, research scientist, Dr Tonya Wiechel, provided an overview of a 10-year integrated disease management program showcasing the team’s investigations into common scab.
Soil biology in potato production
The 2-hour masterclass aims to provide potato growers and advisers with the understanding they need to improve soil biology, potato yields and their bottom line.