Potato Harvest 2018

[Hindsight]

Where are your costings to say "rent a few hundred acres and make a bit on that"?

His growing costs are pretty accurate. Growing on your own ground with old kit isn't as easy as you make it sound.

Again, depends on the market you are aiming for and your available time. On paper, old kit looks cheap. In reality, it breaks down a lot and can have some huge repair/maintainance costs. If your old harvester damages the potatoes one season by bruising, scuffing, hairline cracks. Then whole crop needs consigned to the stockfeed pile.

Old kit still has to be replaced at some point.

Sounds good to me. Let him dip his toe. Would you perchance be trying to discourage him from such a lucrative crop. .

 

[Iben]

Sounds good to me. Let him dip his toe. Would you perchance be trying to discourage him from such a lucrative crop. .

Damn, caught out. Was going to keep the goldmine for myself.

 

[ridger]

that said most farmers can prob rent out 100 acres of their own but if your growing them u could rent a few hundred acres and make a bit on that, £135/t growing cost could be lowered if you just did your own ground yourself with old kit all the same?

How do you rent out 100 acres of your own if you have none

 

[ridger]

Sounds good to me. Let him dip his toe. Would you perchance be trying to discourage him from such a lucrative crop. .

Don't worry he will take no chances

 

[Bossfarmer]

How do you rent out 100 acres of your own if you have none

I meant your average arable farmer, 5-6 year rotation?

 

[ridger]

I meant your average arable farmer, 5-6 year rotation?

I'm farming just 50 acres and keeping a family on it am I average?

 

[Suffolk Serf]

I'm farming just 50 acres and keeping a family on it am I average?

You must therefore be well above average in profit per acre terms.

 

[Bossfarmer]

I'm farming just 50 acres and keeping a family on it am I average?

50 acres of tatties?

 

[Sonoftheheir]

Finished.

 

[marshfarmer]

Finished the conditions last week been perfect glad I gambled and kept them growing on late, helped the average size a lot.

 

[Sonoftheheir]

Finished the conditions last week been perfect glad I gambled and kept them growing on late, helped the average size a lot.

I wondered how you were getting on?!

 

[chipchap]

Some of the crops that were still green when the rain came did ok around here. Some were already dead however.

 

[Cowcorn]

I'm farming just 50 acres and keeping a family on it am I average?

No ,you are an Ulsterman , matched only by a Kerryman !!

 

[Devil's advocate]

What happened to the guy, @ridger told us about in Ireland who planted in mid July?

 

[ridger]

What happened to the guy, @ridger told us about in Ireland who planted in mid July?

The frost killed them on Halloween week and they are just lying there looking sorry for themselves

 

[Devil's advocate]

The frost killed them on Halloween week and they are just lying there looking sorry for themselves

Is it a bit wet for lifting or not much yeild?

 

[ridger]

Too early

 

[ridger]

Never before march

 

[farmerphilly]

Bulking?

 

[Sonoftheheir]

AHDB potatoes need to get on to this and sing from the highest rooftops!