The Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute and CAFRE, Greenmount Campus, have issued the first potato blight warning for 2016.
![Blight sporulating on a potato leaf Blight sporulating on a potato leaf](https://www.afbini.gov.uk/sites/afbini.gov.uk/files/styles/inline/public/images/%5Bcurrent-domain%3Amachine-name%5D/news/088-1200.jpg?itok=OD4r6sTL×tamp=1465906605)
Full Infection Periods were recorded between 7th and 12th June at sites across Northern Ireland. Growers are advised to protect all crops with approved fungicides.
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