Potato price 2018

[HAM135]

AHDB potatoes average free buy price down £12 a ton this week?

I don’t get it? I thought they’d gone up a bit?

Definitely not in a hurry to sell at that price,need to make up for last year.

 

[Iben]

I can never understand where ahdb get their figures from.

 

[Sonoftheheir]

Does anyone have any experience of Ramos as a variety? Seems about the only seed I can get atm?

 

[small dwarf]

McCain's have been buying a lot of scabby Piper from up here which is unheard of,our maincrop yields are back by 15-20% up here on unirrigated,everybody seems to have scab to some degree.

What's their criteria for the piper. Ours are yielding about average but has a bit of scab, even on our higher clay content ground. Hopefully finished today

 

[Farmergrum]

Not a bad day to finish!

 

[AndrewB]

Also finished today

 

[Sonoftheheir]

We would like to be finished by next Tuesday. 30mm rain forecast.

 

[Honest john]

Finished storing this afternoon yields been 8 to 28 ton all graded over 35 mm ,just got another 14 bunkers of lady jo to dig next week

That's a big range, where do you see your Ave ?

 

[Farmer-George]

I can never understand where ahdb get their figures from.

We have got on well with it. Second early and is a good medium term storer.

Don’t store past February/March as they tend to suffer from compression bruising.

You should look at an alternaria program too.

We sell most of our Ramos to Mitchell Potatoes in Warwickshire and they have good demand for it.

What soil type are you on? What is your nematode levels?

 

[Honest john]

Does anyone have any experience of Ramos as a variety? Seems about the only seed I can get atm?

They are a nice potato for an early slot. Do the chipping job well.

Bruise easily, water pre Harvest.

Having said that they were hard to sell in 2017 not that I had any.

It's a name on the back of Lee bags, which is your best guide.

I would say 15-20% of your area, need to be able to water. But only grown the once here so far.

 

[Sonoftheheir]

We have got on well with it. Second early and is a good medium term storer.

Don’t store past February/March as they tend to suffer from compression bruising.

You should look at an alternaria program too.

We sell most of our Ramos to Mitchell Potatoes in Warwickshire and they have good demand for it.

What soil type are you on? What is your nematode levels?

Black Fen mostly, some heavy bits through the fields. PCN range from 0-4. Merchant tells me they bruise easily too.

 

[Sonoftheheir]

They are a nice potato for an early slot. Do the chipping job well.

Bruise easily, water pre Harvest.

Having said that they were hard to sell in 2017 not that I had any.

It's a name on the back of Lee bags, which is your best guide.

I would say 15-20% of your area, need to be able to water. But only grown the once here so far.

Yes I had a neighbour who couldn’t sell them very well a few years back.

Think I’ll hold out for something else.

Anybody else having a job to get seed?

 

[ridger]

Yes I had a neighbour who couldn’t sell them very well a few years back.

Think I’ll hold out for something else.

Anybody else having a job to get seed?

Think I've enough of my own I bought enough to grow a field last year

 

[Cuthbert]

We have got on well with it. Second early and is a good medium term storer.

Don’t store past February/March as they tend to suffer from compression bruising.

You should look at an alternaria program too.

We sell most of our Ramos to Mitchell Potatoes in Warwickshire and they have good demand for it.

What soil type are you on? What is your nematode levels?

What’s an alternaria program?

 

[Spudking]

That's a big range, where do you see your Ave ?

Ramos averaged 14.5 ton ac
Challenger averaged 20.5 ton ac
Siggtta averaged 16 ton most up and down

 

[david]

What’s an alternaria program?

Make sure that you have mancozeb in your spray program every round as most effective for Alternaria control. If your doing Revus, Ranman, Infinito add in 1500gram of mancozeb active.

Ramos is the test variety over in Holland for doing Alternaria control trials.

 

[Farmer-George]

Ramos averaged 14.5 ton ac
Challenger averaged 20.5 ton ac
Siggtta averaged 16 ton most up and down

That’s pretty impressive average from Challenger given the season. I’d be happy with that.

 

[Trying]

Anything being sold? Will make a proper start in a couple of weeks time when they are 450. [emoji6][emoji383]

 

[Sonoftheheir]

Anything being sold? Will make a proper start in a couple of weeks time when they are 450. [emoji6][emoji383]

I said we’d start at £400.

Will it get there?

Edit: Haven’t sold a thing yet.

 

[Iben]

Have been offered £200-£220t for peeling piper. Looks like putting them in a paper bag could be quite lucrative!