Potato price 2018

[Sonoftheheir]

Not been the year i was hoping for up here,good packing spuds we were getting £230/t as dug in Nov,hoped that would be our lowest price this season,now getting £190/t and been in cold store until now,not going to help much after last years losses.Speaking to a guy in S Ireland and he was saying he had averaged 500/euro box,lucky for some!!

Yes, not the repeat 76 bonanza predicted last summer! Goes to show there’s still too many potatoes for demand.

Are you free buy?

 

[HAM135]

Yes, not the repeat 76 bonanza predicted last summer! Goes to show there’s still too many potatoes for demand.

Are you free buy?

1/3 contract fixed price,1/3 contract market price,1/3 free market,packers have more on contract for coming season so not sure where any surplus will go this year

 

[Sonoftheheir]

Interesting stats here from AHDB -

https://potatoes.ahdb.org.uk/publications/january-potato-stocks-detail-diverging-market-implications

 

[legin]

Slightly different thread, but how much Nitrogen are people using under Sagittia?

 

[chipchap]

Interesting stats here from AHDB -

https://potatoes.ahdb.org.uk/publications/january-potato-stocks-detail-diverging-market-implications

If bag chipping prices fall at all, the processors will mop up any spare tonnage.

 

[ballybollen]

Don’t know if this is the right place I’m looking suppliers of 2.0kg or 2.5kgs plastic potato bags with multiple designs for different kind of potatoes I’m using plain ones with my own stickers

 

[farmerphilly]

Slightly different thread, but how much Nitrogen are people using under Sagittia?

Lots!
I put 170 units per acre on at planting and follow up with around 60 more.
I was always told they respond well to nitrogen

 

[legin]

Brilliant, thanks.

 

[Fubar]

So what's this year's summer going to bring us? I keep seeing reports of a heatwave and another 1976. My buyer wants me to commit more tonnage on contract but with no irrigation and last year's low yields still on my mind I'm reluctant to sign anything. It's decent enough money assuming I get an average yield. But I hate selling something that I haven't even planted yet.
It's not the fact that I could be losing out on a higher free buy price, more the concen that I might not get enough spuds to fill the contract . We lived off SMR last year but the fact that the drains have hardly run this winter is a real concern.

 

[Trying]

So what's this year's summer going to bring us? I keep seeing reports of a heatwave and another 1976. My buyer wants me to commit more tonnage on contract but with no irrigation and last year's low yields still on my mind I'm reluctant to sign anything. It's decent enough money assuming I get an average yield. But I hate selling something that I haven't even planted yet.
It's not the fact that I could be losing out on a higher free buy price, more the concen that I might not get enough spuds to fill the contract . We lived off SMR last year but the fact that the drains have hardly run this winter is a real concern.

Well my glass is half full. As you say it’s very dry. On one hand the potatoes are going in in very good conditions. But if we do miss the rain we will be in for another good year. But if we get all the rain we should be due in September the sh!t could hit the fan. Good or bad!

 

[Sonoftheheir]

My Thoughts this morning, there will be -

1. Late Frost’s
2. Long dry hot summer
3. Very wet harvest.

 

[Trying]

My Thoughts this morning, there will be -

1. Late Frost’s
2. Long dry hot summer
3. Very wet harvest.

I’ll take 2 and you can keep 1&3 [emoji6]

 

[chipchap]

Everybody is expecting another dry summer.
The weather has a habit of providing the unexpected.

 

[Sonoftheheir]

Everybody is expecting another dry summer.
The weather has a habit of providing the unexpected.

Yep, your right.

We are due a wet harvest though

 

[Colin]

So what's this year's summer going to bring us? I keep seeing reports of a heatwave and another 1976. My buyer wants me to commit more tonnage on contract but with no irrigation and last year's low yields still on my mind I'm reluctant to sign anything. It's decent enough money assuming I get an average yield. But I hate selling something that I haven't even planted yet.
It's not the fact that I could be losing out on a higher free buy price, more the concen that I might not get enough spuds to fill the contract . We lived off SMR last year but the fact that the drains have hardly run this winter is a real concern.

Get him to do produce of acreage, it's not rocket science, they then take the risk on lack of tonnage.

 

[WRXppp]

So what's this year's summer going to bring us? I keep seeing reports of a heatwave and another 1976. My buyer wants me to commit more tonnage on contract but with no irrigation and last year's low yields still on my mind I'm reluctant to sign anything. It's decent enough money assuming I get an average yield. But I hate selling something that I haven't even planted yet.
It's not the fact that I could be losing out on a higher free buy price, more the concen that I might not get enough spuds to fill the contract . We lived off SMR last year but the fact that the drains have hardly run this winter is a real concern.

Don’t grow spuds anymore but I think you are right re SMR, when ploughing a grass ley out end of November at 20cm it was dust, we have had 25cm of rain since so 25ml soaks 10cm of dry soil so maybe just about drain level and then if you have had stubble turnips or a cover crop on it it will of taken up some of that moisture, very different to last year but of course we are just one area of the country.

 

[Hindsight]

My Thoughts this morning, there will be -

1. Late Frost’s
2. Long dry hot summer
3. Very wet harvest.

How about:
1 Benign weather through to end of May sees UK crop planted into ideal conditions and making good early canopy - no frosts.
2 Despite dry winter and low ground water levels regular reasonable rains through June/July/August in UK but also throughout Northern Europe.
3 Despite a supposed shortage of seed Northern European growers manage to plant 3% more than 2018.
4 Good open autumn.
5 November - All Northern European countries report record yields.

 

[Sonoftheheir]

How about:
1 Benign weather through to end of May sees UK crop planted into ideal conditions and making good early canopy - no frosts.
2 Despite dry winter and low ground water levels regular reasonable rains through June/July/August in UK but also throughout Northern Europe.
3 Despite a supposed shortage of seed Northern European growers manage to plant 3% more than 2018.
4 Good open autumn.
5 November - All Northern European countries report record yields.

You might well be right.

All I can do is try and grow the best quality crop I can. The rest is up to the weather gods.

But I hope your wrong!

 

[Honest john]

Someone will start talking of the D word soon to deflect as from the B word.

 

[Trying]

Someone will start talking of the D word soon to deflect as from the B word.

Drought [emoji12]lets hope that it’s becomes the main topic.