Potato price 2018
- Thread starter Sonoftheheir
- Start date
ridger
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- Location
- Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Have to run some boxes over a second time before bagging, was wondering could they have got wet coming up the road to the store as it is mostly the very top potatoes in the box that's bad
Farmer-George
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I’ve seen very little in ours going over the grader.
Personally I’d try and be out of Ramos by Christmas. They suffer badly with compression bruising if bulk storing past jan feb in my experience.
Farmer-George
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What sort of money for Rock seed? Are you getting much demand for it? Interested if it tastes and fries like agria.
That’s one of the most demanded varieties I think. We have never grown it, lots of friends have suffered with break down in store.
Yes bulk stored, putting it down to the mild weather making the store warmer than normal. lots of small tubers because of the dry summer. no problems with our other varieties, shame we mostly have Ramos!
Ramos is the parent of Rock?
Could be in need of some fryers in the midlands please PM
Thanks
Ramos is the parent of Rock?
Could be in need of some fryers in the midlands please PM
Thanks
- Location
- South Shropshire
Had that last year with Ramos, grown from poor seed.
Ramos is bred from Agria, so is weak on blackleg.
- Location
- West Suffolk
I’ve only heard bad things about Ramos
was offered it this year when everything else was sold out. I didn’t take it.
We had a lot of blackleg in Performer, managed to keep the rots to individual ones in store and just picked them off on the heap before loading. The key was to blast them non stop with air for a week to 10 days when they went into store. They never condensated and were kept dry the whole time.
Odd rots in everything this year but not bad. Even the Agria are the best I’ve seen for lack of black leg.
was offered it this year when everything else was sold out. I didn’t take it.We had a lot of blackleg in Performer, managed to keep the rots to individual ones in store and just picked them off on the heap before loading. The key was to blast them non stop with air for a week to 10 days when they went into store. They never condensated and were kept dry the whole time.
Odd rots in everything this year but not bad. Even the Agria are the best I’ve seen for lack of black leg.
- Location
- West Suffolk
Yes 14-16” depending on size seed I guess?
- Location
- West Suffolk
riverside2
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- Location
- Shropshire
Our chap will be round to advise! Saw the Scotch Rock seed on a trip up there last week and it was running over the line clean as a whistle, nice seedy run.
Zacmartin01
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- Location
- Cambridgeshire
Hello, could I ask what spacing and row width you set your performer at?
Cheers
Honest john
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- Location
- Fenland
Sorry to butt in but they set only 4/5 tubbers in 2017 for me. So Agria spacing I think, over to you sonoftheheir.
- Location
- West Suffolk
12” on 36” rows
- Location
- West Suffolk
I see bags have gone up to 29p each now?
Hindsight
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- Location
- Lincolnshire
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-47107609
Bit of haulage on this load of spuds - you would hope the recipients Quality Control will not reject the load due to extraneous matter or it will be a pretty euro or two on the back haul!
Bit of haulage on this load of spuds - you would hope the recipients Quality Control will not reject the load due to extraneous matter or it will be a pretty euro or two on the back haul!
- Location
- South Shropshire
And lead time of about 3 months.
If you will need bags get them ordered.
- Location
- West Suffolk
And China the largest grower of spuds in the world, ridiculous haulage distance!
- Location
- West Suffolk
I think they’re blaming the ban of single use carrier bags? Ie they’re using more paper for food/grocery packaging?Glad I have enough in!
Hindsight
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- Location
- Lincolnshire
Looks as though France being a member of EU has not hindered exports!!! Never thought we would get Brexit into the Potato Prices thread. But I have - top trumps (no pun intended)
david
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- Location
- County Down
Haulage of potatoes to China shouldn't be that difficult, there must be plenty of large container ships heading back to China loaded with empty containers. Just fill a few of them with potatoes.