AGRICULTURE NEWS - Gerhard Bruwer plants his potatoes only in virgin soil, and his intention is never to plant any piece of land to potatoes more than once in his life.
“If you look out across this bush, where it extends beyond those koppies, that is all virgin land that will be cleared for planting over the next 30 years,” he says.
One of the major reasons for this approach is that as a seed potato producer, he needs to guard against the risk of disease.
Read the full article here on the Caxton publication, Farmer's Weekly.
