UK: Dundee conference hears potato farmers harvest fears
date:Aug 13, 2012
een wet and the opportunity to get on control these diseases has been challenging in itself.

He said the season had been challenging for other crops as well not just potatoes, but the main concern for growers was just how bad harvests were going to be.

Drought focus

He warned: I think we've probably lost yield already. I think we won't get that back, particularly if there are areas of the fields that have been waterlogged and there's been a lot of that.

Finlay Dale, a potato breeder at the J
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