Dates & locations
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05 Mar 2024 - 09:30am |
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Sarah Roberts, Research Associate, NIAB | Register Interest | Book now |
Course details
Syllabus
Understanding potato crop growth stages
Code
PR16
Designed for
Agronomists, potato business employees, supply chain employees, farm managers and farmers.
Entry requirement
Able to demonstrate practical experience
Dates and locations
5 March 2024, Cambridge
Price
£130+ VAT
Duration:
A half day classroom course
CPD points
3 BASIS; 3 NRoSO
Author:
Sarah Roberts, NIAB
Content
Classroom module 1 (half day) –
- Link between crop management and potato growth and development;
- Characteristics of potatoes (e.g. clonal, perishable);
- Growth keys (e.g. BBCH);
- Seed (dormancy, apical dominance, physiological and chronological age, sprouting, storage temperature, pathology, size, cutting);
- Emergence (soil temperature, planting depth, pathology);
- Above-ground morphology (main stems, branches, flowering);
- Below-ground morphology (roots, stolons, tubers);
- Root growth (soil conditions, variety);
- Leaf appearance (temperature, variety, nutrition);
- Tuber initiation (definitions, timing, duration, variety);
- Crop cover (leaf area index, ground cover);
- Dry matter accumulation (radiation use efficiency, water, pathology);
- Partitioning of dry matter (nitrogen, variety, time, harvest index);
- Development of yield (rate of bulking, factors affecting);
- Tuber dry matter concentration (variety, nutrients, change with time);
- Tuber populations (relation with stem population, variety, environment);
- Tuber size distributions (mean tuber size, uniformity, marketable yield);
- Senescence and harvesting (haulm destruction, skin set, bruising);
- Storage (suberisation, weight loss, pathology, biochemical changes).
PLEASE NOTE:PR13 Improving potato yields and profitability by measuring and monitoring performance (from 01:30 pm) the same day. Book both courses for a full day of training.
Trainers are accredited by ARTIS
Participants receive an ARTIS Accredited Certificate
Syllabus