- Location
- West Suffolk
12 acres planted.
potato price
- Thread starter welger
- Start date
12 acres planted.
- Location
- West Suffolk
Only managed 10t acre.
- Location
- West Suffolk
If they had yielded how they should have, we may have broke even.
They looked lovely when they came up, then we had a heat wave in June and that seem to stop them growing. They got to about a ft high. Weeds got the better of them and the soil had no guts in it. Only ended up with about 3 to 4 potatoes a root. Same seed on a good field had about 10 potatoes to a root as big as your fist. I think they’ll yield more like double.
- Location
- Forfar,Angus,Scotland
Your lucky you can get an offer,nice washing whites here and can't get a bid.
- Location
- Spilsby Lincolnshire
I do hope Joe Public go hungry one day, pots need a price stabilizer system? Use to be one PMB!!
The removal of quotas and grower pool funds to buy excess off the market has created a boom/bust market like pigs.
A grower fund would be helpful, it would still have to be priced below cost of production to stop people growing extra just for that fund.
Not sure who will contribute to it though? People growing on priced contracts will rightly say it's not there problem!
That's what the merchant said to me as well when I said I would think about it. Graded up a load of earthy stuff today.
- Location
- West Suffolk
Any come backs on the sluggy ones from last wk Iben?
Report back was 'when grading next load, please try harder!'
Load today had little pest damage, so should be ok. Still a couple hundred tonnes of sluggy ones to go, but better not push them to quickly.
- Location
- herefordshire
average it with last years it want look so bad
Until last years tax bill comes in when there is no great income to pay it.
two-cylinder
Member
- Location
- Cambridge
My weekly order is up by 20p.
But not sure which item(s) in the order have been subject to price change.
Hindsight
Member
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Not that I have noticed. The portion of chips same now as it was this time last year. So presume the chip shop proprietor absorbed the £300 tonne last year and is absorbing the £100 tonne now?
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Hindsight
Member
- Location
- Lincolnshire
But there is a commercial price stabiliser available. Look at post 1416 - though I see Spud has liked your post. Contracts are available at slightly different odds to the casino that is non contract growing. Why do you hope our customers go hungry? I am always grateful that Western Power are out in all weathers mending outages and do not say 'let Joe Public go cold and dark - that'll teach 'em'. But as the they say 'each to their own'. Hey ho.
As a contract grower though, I miss the boom years too, I'd guess the last 5 yrs has averaged better than 5% over contract price. For some reason, and call me a cynic, customers are fussier re defects etc whent he free market is 30 quid, than they ever are when its £300......
- Location
- West Suffolk
Of coarse not, they never go down in price. They have to make up for lack of demand. There is so much more competition now. Merchant told me a chap he was supplying was doing a ton a week, a rumbles chip shop opens directly opposite and he’s down to 15 bags a week already. Yes I know rumbles need potatoes too (but we don’t supply them)
I should imagine most shops are still paying around £5- £6 a bag delivered. The in between men still get their cut and they have less money laid out.
I’m not knocking the merchants as we need them,but there seems a lot of chip shop suppliers are going through a couple of merchants to get their spuds.
- Location
- West Suffolk
Not always down to the money though is it? The ability to grade your own, deal with more people to spread your risk regarding getting paid, sell more or less when you want. Maybe get away with selling less than perfect stuff easier?
I don’t know?