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Demo seed potatoes

You are growing seed potatoes and the following cultivars are available:

  • Bintje (susceptible to all pathotypes of the potato cyst nematode)
  • Innovator (susceptible to G. rostochiensis (pathotypes A, B and C), highly resistant to G. pallida (pathotypes D and E).

Field 1

  • Last soil fumigation carried out in 2004.
  • Last potato crop (Bintje) in 2007.
  • After the 2007 crop a voluntary AMI (PCN Intensive) sampling was carried out (about 6.5 kg soil from 1 ha). One viable potato cyst (G. pallida) was detected.
  • In February 2010 the field was sampled once more using the statutory Amex600: 1 ha soil sampling method (600 ml soil from 1 ha) and the field was officially declared PCN free.
  • You grow seed potatoes in a 1:3 crop rotation.

How does your seed potato growing programme look like for the first 4 years?

  Control 2009 Potato cultivation 2010 Control 2010 Potato cultivation 2013
None Bintje None Bintje
None Bintje Monam (rotodigger) Bintje
None Innovator None Bintje
Monam (rotodigger) Innovator None Bintje

Compare chances of formal scheduling of the four scenarios