The Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute and CAFRE, Greenmount Campus, have issued the first potato blight warning for 2016.
Full Infection Periods were recorded between 7th and 12th June at sites across Northern Ireland. Growers are advised to protect all crops with approved fungicides.
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