Potato planting 2018

[chipchap]

We’ve gone 13 times, 250mm

How much do you honestly reckon this has cost? Possibly the most lucrative input on the farm this year?

 

[Honest john]

There's some interesting articles on the 2018 crop in cpm magazine.

 

[Sonoftheheir]

How much do you honestly reckon this has cost? Possibly the most lucrative input on the farm this year?

I have 85 acres this year, I more or less do them on my own, but on 24 acres rented I pay £40 acre inch for the farmer to irrigate for me. On my own land I reckon it costs me £12 acre per 25mm inc labour/water diesel or electric power. Not inc depreciation and all that stuff.

All in all I would estimate a cost of £20K overall this season.

I should think it was worth it?

 

[Sonoftheheir]

There's some interesting articles on the 2018 crop in cpm magazine.

I’ll have to look for that in Dad’s pile of mail

 

[Beekeeper21]

Hello Folks . Did anyone of You planting Bintje variety ? Im interesting what yield are You got ? Is Bintje more or less resistant to fungal diseases ? I am a Polish small farmer. I heard a lot of good (from kitchen side ) about the Bintje potatoes. The problem is that it is impossible to buy this variety in Poland.

 

[Sonoftheheir]

Hello there!

I don’t believe anybody in the UK grows that variety?

I hear they have had a terrible crop in Belgium and Holland?