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Information For Potato Growers

The Scottish Government is funding extensive R&D in potato pathology (potato crop protection) and potato breeding. It is a major objective of these five-year programmes of research that the findings and outcomes are fully transferred to end users. Whilst most of the research is being carried out at SCRI, SAC has been given the task of carrying out much of this Knowledge Transfer (KT) to end users.

As the R&D programmes have just started, there are few outcomes from the current research as yet but, in order to get the KT programme started, a series of grower meetings at ‘Partner Farms’ is being held to present the results of recently completed Scottish Government research and key Scottish Government policy issues.  These will provide an introduction into the new R&D programmes.

SAC has been carrying out monitoring on these topics at Partner Farms and monitoring will continue on Partner Farms until harvest, and the results will be analysed.  Further grower meetings will be held in the winter to present these results.

All the information imparted at the Grower Meetings is available here in the form of PDF items.

Contact

Dr Stuart Wale
SAC (Scottish Agricultural College) Work Ferguson Building, Craibstone Estate,
Aberdeen
AB21 9YA
TelWork 01224 711213

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Mike Inglis
SAC (Scottish Agricultural College) Work SAC Consulting, Sandpiper House, Ruthvenfield Road,
Perth
PH1 3EE
TelWork 01738 636611
Fax 01738 627860

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