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Keeping Your Fields Free of Unwanted Potatoes - A Spud Smart Roundtable Webinar

Jun 09, 2021

Video: Keeping Your Fields Free of Unwanted Potatoes - A Spud Smart Roundtable Webinar


During this webinar, you will learn:

Potatoes are a welcome sight in a field when planted, but they can pop up in non-potato years and become unwanted visitors. Volunteer potatoes are tubers left in the field which survive winter and grow the following the spring. Not only do these potatoes compete with crops and reduce yield, but they can also harbour insects, diseases and nematodes which can infest neighbouring or future potato crops. Managing these unwanted visitors is important for future field management. During this webinar, you will learn:

-Study results on volunteer potato control-Best practices for controlling volunteer potatoes
-Herbicides available for volunteer potato control