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SAC Adds to its List of Technical Notes

SAC News Release Ref. No: 10N68
Published: 10 Sep 2010

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SAC has added more new Technical Notes to its growing catalogue of short, practical field guides to key issues facing farmers and land managers. These are published with funding from the Scottish Government under the Veterinary & Advisory Services (VAS) programme. SAC has been publishing these handy, easy to read advisory notes for many years, although nowadays they are usually available online rather than in printed form.

Those that have been published include:

TN628: Land management for butterflies
This note provides guidance on best-practice land management to support and encourage butterflies and their habitats

TN630 Potato Storage Diseases
This note provides advice on how to increase potato yields and marketability by preventing diseases during storage. It details diseases and how to control/prevent them and also provides information on disease resistant/less susceptible varieties of potato.

TN632: Fertiliser recommendations for grassland
This note covers the main limitations to grass production which are temperature, moisture, soil pH, soil drainage and structure, and nitrogen (N). This technical note can be used along with PLANET Scotland, a software tool designed for routine use by Scottish farmers and consultants to plan and manage nutrient use on individual fields.

Two additional Technical Notes will be published shortly:

TN629: Management of species rich grassland
This note provides guidance on good practice to protect, manage and if necessary restore naturally occurring species rich grasslands.

TN631 Potato Soil Pests
There are a variety of pests that feed below the soil surface on potato roots and tubers. Most of these pests can be detected and population estimates obtained prior to planting. This note covers how they can be managed through the use of resistant cultivars and pesticide use.

Farmers and their advisers can access these and others by contacting their local SAC Farm Business Services office or at www.sac.ac.uk/technicalnotes.

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News Release Issued By

Mr Ken Rundle
Senior Communications Officer
SAC (Scottish Agricultural College) Work SAC, King's Buildings, West Mains Road,
Edinburgh
EH9 3JG
TelWork 0131 535 4196

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