PotatoLink
PotatoLink is the new extension and communication project for the Australian potato industry. It is being led by Applied Horticultural Research (AHR) with funding through Hort Innovation using potato industry levies and contributions from the Australian Government. Helping growers to access current global best practice information is critically important to improve the viability and resilience of the Australian potato industry.
Podcasting since 2023 • 9 episodes
PotatoLink
Latest Episodes
Moisture monitoring at the Springbank demonstration site Ep. 009
Moisture probes act as a kind of yardstick, helping farmers align their field observations with real moisture data. They can also help optimise irrigation practices. Using moisture data, farmers can time irrigation to match the actu...
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Regenerative Potatoes at the 2024 World Potato Congress Ep. 008
PotatoLink recently attended the World Potato Congress where regenerative agriculture was a major topic. Two of the presenters, Dr Kelvin Montagu from Applied Horticultural Research, and Ryan Barrett from the Prince Edward Island ...
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Lachlan Heysen at the 2022 World Potato Congress Dublin Ep. 007
In 2022 PotatoLink hosted a grower tour to the 2022 World Potato Congress (WPC) in Dublin, Ireland. Lachlan Heysen, a grower from south east South Australia, attended. In this podcast he speaks with PotatoLink team member Ryan Hall about their ...
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Getting the most out of mycorrhizae: 2023 biological product demonstration at Springbank, Vic - Ep. 006
Back in 2023 the PotatoLink team ran a biological product demonstration at the PotatoLink Springbank demonstration site. A mycorrhizal fungi product was applied. Following the results from the 2022 Bolwarrah demonstration site, changes to the f...
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Potato genetics at the James Hutton Institute - Ep. 005
Breeding a new potato variety is not easy. For starters, whereas most plants have two copies of each gene, potatoes have four. As a result, potatoes have a particularly large and complicated genome. Finally sequenced in 2011, a printout on pape...
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