Misses in potato crops in New Brunswick in 1973; their extent, distribution and cause

Effect of Cup Size, Seed Characteristics and Angular Speed on the Performance of an Automatic Potato Planter under Laboratory Conditions

“…Deep planting and diseased seed can cause skips to increase (Cross & Ohms 1967;James at al 1973). However, James et al (1975) determined that 88% of skips were due to the lack of seed. Some researchers found that the skips were mainly caused by mechanical deficiencies of the potato planter (Misener 1979).…”