Other Plant Disease -- Ireland
Potato farmers are warning their crops are rotting in the fields. The Ulster Farmers' Union (UFU) said it was one of the "worst potato harvests in living memory". Waterlogged fields have left as much as 50 per cent of harvest still in the soil.
[A farmer] who had decided to abandon harvesting, said: "A wet summer made it almost impossible to get onto the fields at the 7 day intervals required to keep the disease blight out of the crop." There are also reports that small amounts of rot are
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