Potato blight

Bigjon44

Member
Yes definitely not so many spuds under a root this year and some really small ones that haven't grown at all and plenty of greens from baulks being washed away.plus one or three blighty ones so won't be much to put in store!!!price needs to reflect this later in season otherwise spuds are just not worth growing
 

Bigjon44

Member
Luckily we have 2 farm shops where we can shift 8 to 10 ton a week thro during peak times at a half decent price but if we were relying on the open market all the time like some of you guys must be then it's gotta be bankrupting.Even the paper bags cost over 30p each now
 

Bigjon44

Member
Gravity look very nice again.nice shape and skin.grown for 2 years now and think have overtaken piper now.also store brilliantly
 

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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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