potato price

[Sonoftheheir]

Had the same problem with my new to me walthambury Monday. Gas axe came out and took the bottom taper off. No more bung ups.

Does that weigh in the bag? Ours has a hopper then they drop once the weight is right.

 

[marshfarmer]

Ah right yes mine is the old skool type
Walthambury 320 better than the old tong 825

 

[Spud]

Just curious with you guys struggling to sell, is there not much grown on contract in the UK any more?
My brother tells me they're struggling to find buyers too although I think they do have some on contract.
Smaller population here of course but there would be very little planted that wasn't on contract.

100% contracted here, have been for 10yrs now. Some over contract tonnage to move though, been a good yielding year. I'm trying to tell myself that the extra bit is a bonus, even if the price is crap, if crops had yielded contract level, as budget, then we wouldn't have the extra bit. Better for the soul than grumpling that theyre been given away!!

 

[Sonoftheheir]

This is what we need -

http://www.agrimech.co.uk/weighing-system/

 

[Sonoftheheir]

100% contracted here, have been for 10yrs now. Some over contract tonnage to move though, been a good yielding year. I'm trying to tell myself that the extra bit is a bonus, even if the price is crap, if crops had yielded contract level, as budget, then we wouldn't have the extra bit. Better for the soul than grumpling that theyre been given away!!

I take it contract prices keep quite steady over the years? Do you grow a lot of acres?

 

[Spud]

I take it contract prices keep quite steady over the years? Do you grow a lot of acres?

Contract prices are the bear minimum, never fast to rise, kind of just enough to keep you growing. If everything goes right, there is money to be made, but as ever, no rent and no PCN make a massive difference. A s stated, its always a lot easier getting tipped when free market prices are high! Movement is very slow, just grateful I manged to get 500t away through the washer into the factory early on, too much rot to store. A really cold winter will cause problems, there are grain stores, cattle yards, silage clamps etc all full of spuds this year. I know of some pied outside! Its been a difficult lifting time, barely two days without rain, 50 miles south they're crying for rain. Odd times.

 

[kiwi pom]

Contract prices are the bear minimum, never fast to rise, kind of just enough to keep you growing. If everything goes right, there is money to be made, but as ever, no rent and no PCN make a massive difference. A s stated, its always a lot easier getting tipped when free market prices are high! Movement is very slow, just grateful I manged to get 500t away through the washer into the factory early on, too much rot to store. A really cold winter will cause problems, there are grain stores, cattle yards, silage clamps etc all full of spuds this year. I know of some pied outside! Its been a difficult lifting time, barely two days without rain, 50 miles south they're crying for rain. Odd times.

I think one of the advantages of growing for processors here is many of them store the crop, so when storage starts they're out the ground straight into trucks (grading staff on the harvester) then straight in over the weighbridge into store. You get what the grading sheet says end of worry.
There are a few with their own stores round here but not many.

 

[Spud]

Some of the merchants and processors do have their own stores, but not that many. Ground generally too wet to harvest straight into trucks.

 

[kiwi pom]

Some of the merchants and processors do have their own stores, but not that many. Ground generally too wet to harvest straight into trucks.

You don't think you'd get this in the paddock at the moment spud?

 

[Spud]

Haha - no!

We've used this a lot this season!

 

[carpenter1]

Out of interest I phoned a veg wholesaler yesterday, pipers £7 a bag

 

[Iben]

Offered £110 for second grade washing piper the other day. I think grade 1 washing is £160 mark, washing whites are £65 ish. Fair bit of wastage in mine this year with pest damage/greens and black dot.

 

[haulmblower]

@Iben is black dot just under the skin?
We've had lots this year no ones seen it before here.
The skin's have small puncture marks about 1mm, 1.5mm dia. And a small black area in the flesh just below the skin as if something has burrowed in to it

 

[chipchap]

Bla

@Iben is black dot just under the skin?
We've had lots this year no ones seen it before here.
The skin's have small puncture marks about 1mm, 1.5mm dia. And a small black area in the flesh just below the skin as if something has burrowed in to it

ck dot is a fungal disease that presents firstly as microscopic black dots on the skin, then the skin takes a brown colour. Finally the skin comes loose and parts come free when the tubers are washed.

 

[haulmblower]

Thank you. Do you have any idea what I've described could be please?

 

[chipchap]

Sounds like damage from small stones or grit.
Otherwise possibly wireworm

 

[haulmblower]

Could be wireworm, thank you

 

[marshfarmer]

I've had that sometimes no mark on the skin but msrks underneath and deep. Burst lenticil

 

[Iben]

Rhizoctonia? Depends on how deep into the flesh the damage goes.

 

[Sonoftheheir]

Can you get a X-ray machine to look for hollow potatoes?