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Podcast: The Tillage Edge
Episode: Blight control in potatoes
Description: Factors such the loss of key fungicides and new emerging blight variants are all challenging established blight control practices and on this week’s Tillage Edge podcast, Michael Hennessy was joined by Shay Phelan, a potato Specialist in Oak Park, to discuss blight control in potatoes.
The loss of Mancozeb as a key blight control product puts pressure on the existing products and Shay recommends growers should sit down early in the season to sequence the use of these products to ensure maximum label use is not exceeded throughout the season.
Shay then explained that the new blight variant (37A2) no...