Wet soil conditions and very high disease levels pose the biggest risk to crops, with wet rots likely to cause most storage headaches this season. Growers will have to be vigilant for tuber blight, blackleg and soft rots including pink rot, as soil and weather conditions continue to favour these diseases in the field. Growers will need to be quite judgemental about which crops are going to be stored and which aren't, says Adrian Cunnington of the Potato Council's Sutton Bridge Crop Storage Research."We need people to be looking at crops in the field and digging some samples so they can get an appreciation as to what they're dealing with. The risk of putting it into store and then trying to sort out a major problem would be too high."
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