Dutch Crop tour potato - week 12
First Innovators are in all the backs
While most potato growers are still busy with other crops, Jacco van Liere in Dronten already removed the planter from the grease yesterday (Thursday 24 March). The arable farmer and participant in the Boerenbusiness Crop tour has the first Innovators in its back.
This makes the first crop tour plot of potatoes of 2022 a fact. Last Tuesday, March 21, 30 cubic meters of cattle slurry per hectare was applied to the plot. According to Van Liere, it is still early, but it can pay off to plant the Innovator variety early: "The soil is still moist and falls nicely. Innovators planted early are not disappointing and that can pay off". Other varieties are therefore not planted yet.
Patience is a virtue
In Zeeland, where the planting season generally starts earlier, potato grower Daan Goense from Driewegen in Zeeland has also started planting potatoes. The Crop Tour plot is still a while away, but he has planted variety Markies. Goense thinks it is still too early to start with other varieties, including Innovator: "We are just past mid-March, the soil is still too cold here and also reasonably wet".
Potato legs are not yet on the schedule in the Noord-Brabant town of Eethen. However, cattle slurry was driven through the green manure on the Gewastour plot. According to potato grower Jacob Branderhorst, other crops are planned first: "We will sow the last onions this week, then the beets are on the schedule and then the potatoes come into the picture".
At potato grower Jan Pieter Evenhuis in Giethoorn (Overijssel) there is no stress about planting potatoes. He thinks the soil is still too cold to start this: "We want to plant next week or early that week, depending on what the weather forecast is exactly. become natural".
Robin Winter
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