ridger
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- Location
- Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Some difference in weather across the UK, I had to go and level new sprayer tracks on Friday night because I bottomed out last week
Potato Price Tracker
- Thread starter chipchap
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- Location
- West Suffolk
Far from that here……. ATM!
- Location
- Perthshire (It's a big place!)
Got 8 here, irrigating 240 acres of Piper every week, got more lay flat delivered last week, that did the job and made it rain 20mm during the week so down to just 2 running at the moment to wet up subsoil in 1 field that hadn't had any at all.
Hindsight
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- Location
- Lincolnshire
Hi, are you keeping those Piper in Scotland this coming marketing season, or are they contracted ready for trucking down to England for packing. Asking for friends!
- Location
- Perthshire (It's a big place!)
Some are going definitely going down the road along with the 500T of whites that we grow. Rest are contracted but not sure where they are getting packed and got some processing contracts for headlands etc as well. Then there's hopefully going to be some uncontracted as well (subject to yield). Got a price for 75% of the average crop though. Not enough people in Scotland to eat all the spuds that are grown here but I do have plenty of waterHi, are you keeping those Piper in Scotland this coming marketing season, or are they contracted ready for trucking down to England for packing. Asking for friends!
Hindsight
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- Location
- Lincolnshire
Some are going definitely going down the road along with the 500T of whites that we grow. Rest are contracted but not sure where they are getting packed and got some processing contracts for headlands etc as well. Then there's hopefully going to be some uncontracted as well (subject to yield). Got a price for 75% of the average crop though. Not enough people in Scotland to eat all the spuds that are grown here but I do have plenty of water
Yes, my local Grantham Morrisons has had Piper from Scotland since last October (Angus, Fife, Aberdeenshire, Berwickshire noted on bags) On only one occassion did I see an English Piper - the days before Xmas. In meantime I have clients with Piper in cold store only 30 miles from Grantham which are now leaving the farm at around £80 tonne for peeling, if a buyer can be found, and I fully expect some to be dumped yet. Retailers and Government Ministers will deliver speeches and website articles about food miles, food waste etc, etc. Funny old world, isn't it!?
- Location
- Perthshire (It's a big place!)
Yep, foods not expensive enough yet obviously. With the changes at GVAP some have moved away to a coop that supplies into various places but also does a lot into IPL near Perth. We are sticking with GV as better the devil you know. We've always sent a lot down the road rather than to the Scottish site. Seems crazy not packing them up here but it must work out financially for them. They all seem to pay basically the same so we didn't see any point jumping just now but it's always kept under review.
- Location
- Perthshire (It's a big place!)
So is a lot of the Lincs piper still grown without a contract? We have some with a black dot and silver scurf that is going just now for £40 ex farm.
Hindsight
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- Location
- Lincolnshire
Varies between growers. Some have traditionally done OK free buy, but since March 23 2020 the market has changed. Also packers becoming more ruthless - unless have some potatoes contracted refuse to buy free buy. Retain free buy for their 'tied' contract suppliers. Retail price is just under £500 tonne in Morrisons for Piper and Whites. Always surprised can truck Piper to Northants and make it pay. Hey ho.
- Location
- Perthshire (It's a big place!)
About £60 a box to Cambs, with box return.
Hindsight
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- Location
- Lincolnshire
Yes, that is the price we know of. Assuming average contract price across season of say £200 then that is £260 delivered in Floodsferry including waste out of the boxes (presume no graded before delivery - as that is what I have seen). Thus retail price allows for around £200 net of waste for packing, distribution and retail costs - allowing for a small margin for retailer. Hey ho.
- Location
- Perthshire (It's a big place!)
Thats about right
- Location
- Forfar,Angus,Scotland
Morrisons don't pack anything in Scotland now,it's quite laughable,they ask us for a carbon audit but take our tatties on a 600 mile round trip to be washed and packed to end up in a store less than 10mls from the field they were grown!! Madness
Hindsight
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- Location
- Lincolnshire
Indeed. Hey ho. Such is life!
- Location
- West Suffolk
2 roots of Agria, 14 tubers in total.
ridger
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- Location
- Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Good to see the chain, I'm never without mine
- Location
- West Suffolk
Ha ha, I use it to pull the irrigators out .
farmerm
Member
- Location
- Shropshire
I was 5 miles from home one day last week and sat in the car for an hour as the rain was biblical with local roads flooded, at home the washing on the line remained dry!