- Location
- South Shropshire
Now that the AHDB potato council has been kicked into touch, does the Forum have a place in providing a resource for price information?
True story : This happened a long time ago. My mum was at the checkout of a local supermarket ,the woman serving her said to her: " Hey, watch this" then shouted at the top of her voice : " You do know pepper's gonna be short don't you?!" Cue lots of panicking housewives dashing to the condiment shelves and grabbing as many tubs of pepper as they possibly could . Mum then asked : "Really? now pepper's in sort supply?" "Nah" replied the checkout lady "I just fancied a bit of fun that's all!"Need to get the media onto 'there is going to be a shortage of potatoes' to get Joe Public into panic buying them, and get the price up. Worked for loo rolls, pasta and fuel.
Need to get the media onto 'there is going to be a shortage of potatoes' to get Joe Public into panic buying them, and get the price up. Worked for loo rolls, pasta and fuel.
Need to get this message to the media, there might be no roast potatoes for christmas dinners.A lorry driver who came here said his mates second cousin works on a spud farm and heard some local growers are going to have to limit supplies to some merchants, as just not enough to go round.
Need to get this message to the media, there might be no roast potatoes for christmas dinners.
Is agria a good variety to Grow?
It’s been a bad year for our markies. I wotsay that they are around 10% down on yield. Been told that markies are 210-220. Agria 240-250. Bagged. Will start bagging beginning of November. Would like to start at 250. Just makes it’s easier to add up.
Seed expensive for every variety now.even the good old fashioned piper and desiree not cheap anymore.
Also we can't get riviera or gravity seed for next year.spuds may be short next year ?????