Crop Nutrition

Various levy funded projects that examined fertiliser use and uptake by potato crops have identified where potential savings can be made by matching application with true fertiliser requirement. Many of the findings have been incorporated into the fertiliser recommendations (RB209, 8th edition).

To highlight these potential savings and to help you interpret some of the information within RB209, please view ‘Crop Nutrition for Potatoes’.

Visit the NEW Potato Fertiliser Calculator

Technical Information

• Crop Nutrition for Potatoes guide (Updated 2013)

• Potato Variety Determinacy Rating Table

• Long-term average annual rainfall map

• Improved analysis of solid manures and slurries using NIRS

As crop nutrition can have implications across seasons and crops, it is advisable to view the two programmes linked below.

MANNER is a Defra-funded project delivered by ADAS and is a useful decision support programme for organic manures.

• View MANNER Software

PLANET (Planning Land Applications of Nutrients for Efficiency and the Environment) developed by ADAS for Defra is software to help growers with field-level nutrient management and compliance within nitrate vulnerable zones (NVZ’s) for whole farm application. During May 2011, PLANET Scotland was launched by SASA for Scottish Government.  You can view these by following the link below.

• View PLANET Software