seed potato
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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"The likes of the seed potato industry has been massively impacted. So anything that can reduce that friction has to be welcomed."
From BBC • May 19, 2025
The seed potato ban will be revoked this autumn, as will a similar ban on so-called "high risk" trees and shrubs.
From BBC • Feb. 28, 2023
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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