UK: Potato levy investment in soils R and D announced at leading technical event

AHDB Potatoes was once again at the forefront of GB’s largest technical potato field event recently. Against the background of 2015’s International Year of Soils, AHDB Potatoes’ Dr Rob Clayton spoke at the event to press and industry stakeholders highlighting the continuing importance of soils across the potato, cereals and dairy sectors, and announced for the first time that further levy funding from across AHDB sectors is to be invested into soils research work, beginning with an invitation for tender bids from research organisations this coming September. More