Top tips to control potato sprout this season

Crop protection manufacturers issue best practice guidance to maximise the effect of maleic hydrazide this season

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Top tips to control potato sprout this season
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Maleic hydrazide is crucial in potato sprout control programmes and is found in the popular potato plant growth regulator Fazor. Jonathan Kemp of Mercian believes that a grower's potato sprout control...

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