seed potato
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The seed potato industry says the lost market opportunity into the EU has cost £75m over the last five years.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2025
Scientists had been predicting that PCN would wipe out Scotland’s seed potato industry by 2050.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2024
In December, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said a national survey detected no potato wart in seed potato fields not already under surveillance.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 5, 2022
My cache included four bags of onion bulbs — maybe 800 in all — three pounds of a seed potato named Katahdin and another three-pound bag of French fingerling potatoes.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 5, 2016
It matters not so much whether the seed potato be large or small; it must, however, come from a hill bearing a large yield of fine potatoes.
From Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition by Burkett, Charles William
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