Potato Council's Winter Forum tour kicks off Thursday

Phil Burgess
Phil Burgess

With just seven weeks until Spring, January is an ideal time to meet up with fellow growers and technical experts to get prepared for the 2015 potato crop.

More than 100 delegates are signed up will be heading to the first Potato Council Winter Forum Tour date at Harper Adams, Shropshire this Thursday (29 January, 2015).

Dr Philip Burgess, who joined Potato Council as Head of Knowledge Transfer last summer is excited about the programme, “There are currently huge challenges facing potato growers. We have listened to feedback and I believe we have shaken up this agenda to provide highly topical and relevant technical content which will arm delgates with the best science driven advice GB can offer.”

Further tour dates take place in Peterborough, 4 February and at SASA, in Edinburgh, 10 February and registration is live at www.potato.org.uk/events.

A hand picked line up of key opinion leaders include experts from NIAB CUF; SA Consulting; Scottish Agronomy; Spud Agronomy; and The James Hutton Institute.

So if you’ve ever wondered how we could control Potato Cyst Nematode (PCN) in a world of fewer pesticides? How PCN population dynamics are changing? How blight control will work in 2015 and is control of the pathogen getting harder? How agronomists should be assisting their clients? How we might be going wrong with soil management for potato crops? These answers questions and others will be unveiled at each forum.