Potatoes

A balanced crop nutrition strategy for potatoes is essential for improving the quality and yield of your potato crop.

Nitrogen, phosphorous, potassium, magnesium, calcium, sulphur, boron, copper, iron, manganese, molybdenum and zinc are all important nutrients and a deficiency in any of them can have an impact on the crop. For example, a nitrogen deficiency can lead to stunted plants which can limit crop development, while a lack of calcium can cause internal browning and hollow tubers.

Potatoes

Helping you understand the nutritional needs of potato crops

Keeping your potato plants appropriately fertilised with our range of smart liquid fertilisers can help improve plant growth, reduce calcium related disorders, reduce internal browning, improve uniformity, increase tuber weight, increase productive yield, improve resilience to stress, improve root development, reduce nitrogen loss to the environment and produce less ground water residue.

To help you keep your potato crops well fertilised with the right nutrients, we recommend regular applications of NHKDelta, NHCa Delta, 1-4-All and Calflux. Please refer to the guide below for dosage and application guidance.

Potatoes

Benefits

Stronger plant growth for improved fungicide performance
Improved growth in saline conditions
Fewer calcium related disorders
Less internal browning
Higher dry matter
More size uniformity
Higher tuber weight
Higher productive yield
Protection against daily stress
Improved root development
Low nitrogen losses to the environment
Growth habit improvement
Less ground water residues
Improved crop uniformity

“Last year I grew Nelson winter wheat for a seed contract on a split field trial. It was drilled late on drought-prone land. It yielded 7.5 t/ha, which was 1.5t/ha higher than the standard programme without Cope Nutrition Plus.”

“We started using the nutrition programme just over six years ago,” he says. “We now use it across the whole of our 2000 hectare farm, covering winter wheat, winter barley, spring barley, record breaking Merlin spring oats, and spring beans.”