High Input, High Output? Rethinking Potato Seed Treatments and Crop Protection Economics
Rhizoctonia gives growers just one real opportunity to protect yield and value — at planting. Once the crop emerges, the window to control black scurf on developing daughter tubers has closed. In a season where blight programmes, irrigation, fertiliser and labour all demand investment, it’s a huge loss to arrive at harvest and see size variation and skin blemishes that push produce out of premium grades. That’s why seed and in‑furrow treatments remain some of the highest‑leverage decisions in potato production.
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