The Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute (AFBI) and the College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise (CAFRE), Greenmount Campus, have issued the first potato blight warning for 2015.
Full Infection Periods were recorded between 8th and 14th July at sites across Northern Ireland. Growers are advised to protect all crops with approved fungicides.
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