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    Potato Price Tracker

    For sure you can see the return and cash flow benefit (as long as the money arrives), and the 25-28t/ha varieties for home trade are a fine line, important for us in the seed trade to find the varieties that are going to deliver 38-40t/ha which stack up for all and also keep field generations...
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    Potato Price Tracker

    Neither variety is going to yield heavy though so lots of area and input seed required to meet orders. Big money being offered so the temptation to keep piling them in is huge and pressuring the home trade like you wouldn’t believe. Cara not a particularly friendly variety in terms of long term...
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    Potato Price Tracker

    Was suggested as fairly accurate by Irish visitors to our breeding station in Holland this week, also the report of 20% of the EU4 crop still to harvest (although I hear that is weighed to some extent by more fresh and flake crop than processing area)
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    Potato Price Tracker

    w Poly bags at the end of their shelf life ripped into the crate, boils my p1ss…….even worse when you see there’s 3/4 different varieties in there. Add in no packaging to put your produce in (no paper bags across the whole of our large local Morrison’s yesterday) and it just sums up the poor...
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    Potato Price Tracker

    To some extent yes, regional variations for sure and also planting date has made a difference. Coming off the back of the 2022/3 seed which was the smallest run crop in my experience it will make this years seed rates look worse than they actually are though. The profile of crops in Europe are...
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    Potato Price Tracker

    As an employee of a seed breeder I’m going to suggest that blight resistant varieties are the best solution 😁
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    Potato Price Tracker

    Huge competition for growers from processing factories is part of the reason for the reduction in seed area (land clean enough for seed is also an issue - becoming a real challenge with higher grade UK seed production too). That has combined with a very hot summer in Western Europe at the point...
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    Potato Price Tracker

    Could be at least that per tonne the way the European market is moving...............
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    Potato Price Tracker

    No problem! Busy doing seed things 😉 and also had a new addition to the family to focus on 😂
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    Potato Price Tracker

    End of greentop for non-storage growers always puts some pressure on the trade, admittedly I was not expecting it to drop to current levels though. Restricted ground clearance in the North West in July/August due to very wet conditions has created a bit of a hangover for crops that would...
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    Potato Price Tracker

    Maybe was some regrowth that wasn't frying due to lack of maturity? Have seen a fair bit on my travels as well as plenty of second throws of tubers due to ineffective Fazor application (or growers not bothering as conditions were not right anyway..............) Expecting to hear more of this...
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    Potato sales after the melt down of last week.

    It looks like retail fresh sales/bag sales could be in for a boost with this lockdown, but whilst you expect chippies/restaurants to be much more prepared this time compared to March you still feel that there could be a further downturn. Hopefully not. Fingers crossed we do see the resurgence in...
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    Peculiar potatoes

    has the look of a herbicide issue to me
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    Potatoes after frost

    Certainly was a hard frost in the midlands, more than a few fields looking like this one I saw on Friday
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    Second earlies potato varieties

    Can ceratinly sort you a tonne of decent 35x55 Marfona out if you wanted to message me...........
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    Potato sales after the melt down of last week.

    Sorry for late reply. Growers keen to see their seed safe on farm and also a lot of requests ahead of schedule due to rapidly improved land conditions has made this an unbelievable 3-4 weeks. It’s always a busy time of year of course, but with everything else going on adding to this it’s been...
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    Potato planting 2020, what is the current situation?

    Volume of traffic into some really remote seed areas is always low and a challenge to our hauliers, now with half the wheels in the country restocking food stores it’s become very tough to keep seed moving at the required pace. Therefore the need to get lorries has meant paying extra to get them...
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    Potato planting 2020, what is the current situation?

    I can vouch for one lot turning up ;-) Transport for seed is just becoming an issue at the moment, especially to outlying areas in the North of Scotland, our main haulier is on standby to have to line up vehicles who will run to Scotland empty - min £25/t on our haulage bill. To be fair to the...
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    Potato price 2019

    Think it was a case of salvaging what they could, but Powdery came in at it's worst after burn off. It sometimes does not show up fully initially, can be 8-10 wks later - so can get worse in store when you think you've got a clean crop................
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    Potato price 2019

    Maris Bard like hens teeth this season, couple of big hits taken by growers in Scotland with Powdery Scab. Depends then on whether you are looking to chip earlies or just new...........might have a couple of options for you if you wanted to PM me.......
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