- Location
- Northern Ireland
You’re not on your own
Potato Price Tracker
- Thread starter chipchap
- Start date
- Location
- West Suffolk
They’d be wanting £15k an acre around here.
our man who looks after stores for lamb weston said at £400 sell sell , no extra electric or gassing
suppose it’s a gamble
Not sellling at £400/t is like not selling wheat at £300/t - just greedy
- Location
- South Shropshire
Peaked at £800 last year, so I’m told.
Very briefly I’m also told
Bigjon44
Member
No coldstore?
Trying
Member
More than that.
- Location
- Perthshire (It's a big place!)
Compared to those on packing contracts your coining it in!
How would most contract prices be set,are they min/ max or a set price,I presume they are like oats (but on a much larger scale)and a safe bet most years but pig sick in the bonanza year
Trying
Member
This whole thing of being “greedy” is different for everyone or farm. I don’t see that if someone doesn’t sell at £400 that’s being greedy. Yes sometimes you win and sometimes you lose. Yes a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. Everything is pointing to there being a shortage. So why not wait and cash in and wait a little while longer to get a little bit more. My situation is this. I would have normally be finished grading mid Jan. I’m not starting till mid Jan this time. That’s probably a £100 a ton difference.not to be snubbed at. But if it all comes tumbling down there’s only one person to blame and that’s me. Farming is a complete gamble. We all need some good wins every now and again to keep us running.
- Location
- Perthshire (It's a big place!)
Depends, some for example piper will be a higher price than whites. The variousmones I've heard are anywhere from 50 to 75% fixed. Some proportion of this might be at a processing price. From the Perthshire area could be 240 ex depending on how far they are going , for the packing proportion. Whites would be 220 maybe from memory. But the whites might be 50% fixed with no processing fallback. Also depends on movement month as well.
- Location
- South Shropshire
Contract prices are agreed with my customers around planting time or a bit before.
we are all family businesses and start talking about now usually.
i am not interested in trading with anybody who tries to dictate terms or where I cannot talk to the boss man, man to man. Supermarkets and multinationals are not my game thankyou.
we are all family businesses and start talking about now usually.
i am not interested in trading with anybody who tries to dictate terms or where I cannot talk to the boss man, man to man. Supermarkets and multinationals are not my game thankyou.
AndrewB
Member
- Location
- Kincardineshire
Don’t think many packing growers would have the patience to bag thousands of tonnes into 25 kg bags.
- Location
- West Suffolk
Nope
ridger
Member
- Location
- Tyrone, Northern Ireland
I'm not scared to admit it, my best driest field had the worst yield. Probably be the other way round next season
Our driest were the same, they were only two we could plant in spring first as it was too wet. They came throo in about 3 weeks and looked god but just never produced. Had about 7.5t seed and 2t ware off them. That was taking the seed close to 55mm too. Last planted field in end of may was the best by far. Least 2023 is almost gone!
- Location
- Perthshire (It's a big place!)
Been there!!
glasshouse
Member
- Location
- lothians
Did u have the early drought same as we did?
My driest field was also poorest this year.