- Location
- Norfolk
I used to feed all waste at one time, the haulage was the killer, then they started saying the bio gas plants were swallowing it all up apart from the onions?
potato price
- Thread starter welger
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- Location
- Norfolk
Be good for a cull cow finishing enterprise minus the onions.
- Location
- Northumberland
I might just agree with you, assuming it's tipped in my yard and doesn't come with any freebies (stones, soil, metal etc). I still have to process (chop) them, but that's roughly similar to bruising barley. Don't have the shelf life/continuity of supply issues with barley, though.
wellingtonfarmer
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- Location
- Herefordshire
I wouldn't pay £30 for it. (Currently payin £10). Might go to £20 but by the time you have fetched it, chopped it, and used extra straw in beds, No way I would pay £30 when barley is £120ish at a guess
That's the downside with them, I was relating them from purely a nutritional value. There is a transport cost and does require extra bedding.
At a guess, if you replaced 5t of barley with 20t of potatoes, how much extra straw would you expect to use?
ridger
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- Location
- Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Never noticed any more slurry with the potatoes, my cattle are getting 10 kg a head a day and 3 kg barley and 5 kg meal and they are looking mighty fine 
wellingtonfarmer
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- Location
- Herefordshire
Never noticed any more slurry with the potatoes, my cattle are getting 10 kg a head a day and 3 kg barley and 5 kg meal and they are looking mighty fine
Mine are 10kgs and 7kgs barley. And they are a lot wetter than than the bulls that are fed just barley! Potato ration cattle need littering every other day- bulls done twice a week
ridger
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- Location
- Tyrone, Northern Ireland
I've slats which help a lot
ridger
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- Location
- Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Do you mix the potatoes with soya hulls or sugar beet nuts or anything
wellingtonfarmer
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- Location
- Herefordshire
Yeah sorry full ration is.
8kgs whole crop
10kgs potatoes
8kgs barley
1kg protein blend with soya hulls sugar beet pellets wheat distillers and a few other things in it!
ridger
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- Location
- Tyrone, Northern Ireland
I mix the potatoes with sugar beet nuts and cover for a week or 2 before I use them, they come out cooked and will keep for years. Saves wasting any pickings or small ones when digging green top
- Location
- West Suffolk
AHDB end nov stocks report -
https://potatoes.ahdb.org.uk/publications/gb-end-november-stocks-23-previous-season
https://potatoes.ahdb.org.uk/publications/gb-end-november-stocks-23-previous-season
What is worrying is they say Nov stocks up 23% while production was up 15%, suggesting utilisation rates are lower than normal.
- Location
- South Shropshire
My attitude this year is to sell at each and every opportunity, almost irrespective of price.
Good job I did a few contracts as well.
Good job I did a few contracts as well.
- Location
- West Suffolk
*if* they go up this season, hopefully it will be after everyone has planted. Shouldn’t tempt people to put more in again.
- Location
- West Suffolk
I said a while ago I was writing this season off, I’m not turning any orders down. I know I’m loosing money but mine are all ambient.
- Location
- South Shropshire
The stocks I have left in store have had fazor, but no CIPC.
We will be clear before Easter.
- Location
- West Suffolk
I Fazor all of ours, we have about 120t that hasn’t had cipc. Got about 650t that have been gassed though.
riverside2
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- Location
- Shropshire
Hear it's £130 in bags with the eastern merchants today - comment was that the gap is widening between the price for the best and worst. Starting to see a growing number of samples that are now resigned to the stock feed pile...................