Potatoes in Practice 2026, Scotland’s largest field-based potato event, will take place a week later than usual, on Thursday 13th August at The James Hutton Institute’s Balruddery Farm in Invergowrie, near Dundee.
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May 14, 2026
January 26, 2026
Potatoes in Practice will be back at The James Hutton Institute’s Balruddery Farm in Invergowrie, near Dundee, on Thursday 13th August 2026.
This year’s theme is Future proofing the potato industry so expect seminars that cover the key pressing issues facing the sector, such as bruising, viruses, the latest research on PCN, sustainability, and Scottish Government’s science strategy.
As always, this is the event to attend if you want to get up to date with the latest developments in the potato industry and to meet friends, old and new.
August 04, 2025
Potatoes in Practice, one of the UK’s premier field-based potato events, takes place at Balruddery Farm on Thursday (7th August) and throughout the day Sky-Pin Drones will be demonstrating the XAG P100 Pro, a next-generation heavy-lift agricultural drone designed for precision spraying and spreading, ideally suited to potato production systems.
August 01, 2025
With less than a week to go until Potatoes in Practice, excitement is building — and the James Hutton Scientific Services field plots are well worth a visit. This year, they feature a diverse array of material from the Commonwealth Potato Collection (CPC), alongside cultivars with different sources of resistance to blight and to White Potato Cyst Nematode (PCN).
July 28, 2025
Over the last two potato growing seasons late blight management has been under severe pressure across much of Europe. The cause? A combination of very wet weather and clones of Phytophthora infestans, the potato blight pathogen, that have evolved resistance to two key fungicide active ingredients.
