Potatoes in Practice 2009

Potatoes in Practice, moves to a new venue for 2009. It will be held at SCRI’s Balruddery Farm (Invergowrie, Dundee, DD2 5LJ) on Thursday 13th August. For directions, click here.

New venue for 2009 - Balruddery Farm, Dundee

Potatoes in Practice is the largest and most important outdoor potato event in the UK. It is sponsored by the Potato Council and features trials and demonstrations from SCRI, SAC, CSC PotatoCare and the potato industry.

More than 700 growers, advisors, researchers, overseas visitors and industry representatives attended the event in 2008. A great event not to be missed.

The event brings together a variety of trials and other potato specific research in one place and is a key date in the potato industry calendar.

Have a look at 2009's event leaflet here

Seminars for this year include:

  • 'Control of Potato Cyst Nematodes: an update on the implementation of the new EU Directive' (Jon Pickup - SASA)
  • 'Store management for Energy Efficiency' (Rod McGovern - SAC Consulting)
  • 'Prospects for Protecting Potatoes - responding to pesticide regulations' (Rob Clayton - Potato Council)

They are all free and you can attend as many as you wish. Make sure you visit the seminar tent on the day!

 

More and more international visitors make their way to Potatoes in Practice every August. 

There will be more than 40 marquee and machinery exhibitors, including: SCRI, Potato Council, SAC, SASA, Scottish Natural Heritage, Bayer CropScience, Belchim Crop Protection, Brackenbury Engineering, Bradley Refrigeration, The Burdens Group, Crop Solutions, Crop Sustems, DuPont (UK), Farm Electronics, Farm Works, Frontier Agriculture, Greenvale AP, Grimme (UK), Haith Tickhill Group, Higgins Agriculture, IMA Cooling Systems, Klim'Top Controls, Omex Agriculture, Plant Solutions, Redwood Refrigeration, Restrain Company, Soilessentials, Syngenta Crop Protection, Techneat Engineering, Tong-peal Engineering, TRP (Scotland), United Phosphorus, Weber marking System, Welvent, Wroot Water. Machinery from Mearn Tractors, RGS Forfar, Root Systems, and Tennant (Elgin). 

For exhibition updates and general booking information contact Sarah Collier/ Sharon Neilsen at SCRI here. For more details, check SCRI events page here.

Information on the 2008 event:

 

Download the Potatoes in Practice Event guide 2008 here (804 KB).

Download the Field Trials & Demonstrations Results Summary here (215 KB).

                                     


 

 

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