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    Potato Prices.

    Well could you chop the part with the eyes off and sell the other bit too a chip shop, all joking aside might be worth asking Cygnet if they have any Elland seed lurking around as a grower for chippy’s, seems to be a worthy variety to try!
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    Potato Prices.

    Off topic, heard someone ordered their usual spring barley seed order in Sept’ for 400 acre through the malting contract merchant as they had done for many years and contract of sale turned up just before Xmas with a price of £800/tonne, order cancelled as actual malting contract had not been...
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    Potato Prices.

    So will they come split graded to help with planting, most years, if I remember was 35/55 as standard grade. might be worth asking if they have any new varieties kicking around to do commercial tests on as an expert chipper potato grower!
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    Potato Prices.

    Tops worth more than seed?
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    Potato Prices.

    Any alternatives offered? Could widen the spacing or cutting of largest tubers in the sample be options, do they give you tuber counts like TGW in cereals or is that a diy job?
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    Combinables Price Tracker

    I always remember a talk by Ben Gill, ex NFU, must of been 30 years ago and he said about the soils he had seen over there and ukraine and he said if they get their act together and have yields like Western Europe the world will be awash with grain.
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    Combinables Price Tracker

    I know I read somewhere that before Putin invaded that the Ukraine used to export the vast majority of its grain in the harvest to Christmas period, now with no avilalability at ports this can’t be done so it’s whatever capacity at whatever time so if they are managing to get a whole seasons...
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    Fertiliser Price Tracker

    I follow Josh Linville on Twitter and NOLA urea has gone up over the last few weeks and there tends to be an 8 week delay to it affecting prices here though he also states gas in Europe is also cheap so AN might remain at current prices and be cheaper for new season effectively probably making...
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    Undersown spring barley

    Had undersown spring cereal as an option when in ELS/HLS and it was the harvesting of it that was the biggest headache of the whole scheme fortunately I have a neighbour with a stripper header which made the job so much easier.
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    Potato Prices.

    £28 for 8’s cauliflower I saw the other day, but not much demand at that price, not looked to see what they are in the supermarkets tbh.
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    AHL2 - Winter Bird Food

    What it needs is a type of combo option so we have the multi species winter cover then into the ahl2 from spring to spring then a spring to 15th October summer annual nectar and pollen mix so stuff like borage, phecilia, linseed, fodder radish, mustard, it’s this 3rd part we a missing to get you...
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    Sowing ww in February ?

    Mission was a mid 80’s variety, was a miller, I remember cutting a field with a Dominator 85 for our contractor as they had a Dominator 106 on demo which was a 108 inside so needed another driver 1985 it was another wet year, hell of a job getting spuds picked but then it was dry from mid...
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    What % of winter crops not planted or destroyed

    Barley sown 3 weeks ago is up in the drill, sat on a big slab of limestone but I was surprised how well it ploughed and drilled, was back to slop a week ago but was well rooted and chitted and is even coming through nicely in the corners where there is the odd puddle today after last nights top...
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    Late sowing winter wheat varieties

    If you go on James Mortimer seeds website and click on there catalogue’23 there is a handy page with all varieties latest sowing dates.
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    Fertiliser Price Tracker

    NOLA urea barges down to $300 today, yara shutting Italian nitrogen plant due to economic reasons supplies 600,000 of ammonia and the same of urea per year.
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