How is planting going this year? Are the usual early folk making progress? @slim shiny ?
potato price
- Thread starter welger
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small dwarf
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- Location
- Pettinain
Can’t possibly be much planted in these temps. Could be a saving grace to clear a bit more of stored crop.
Any truth in the rumors that there are contracts being renaged on? Or that promises have evaporated?
Any truth in the rumors that there are contracts being renaged on? Or that promises have evaporated?
- Location
- norfolk
There's quite a few putting peer in and some Marfona, we are starting next week
Is that a usual start time for you?
- Location
- norfolk
No it's about 10-14 days later
ridger
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- Location
- Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Anyone have any trouble with gangarene?
- Location
- West Suffolk
Finished grading Sagitta today -
No cipc only MH, stored above 8C
Sold 15.5t acre (planted area) not too bad a yield considering the seed had little tuber disorder after planting. It did cause lots of head aches with greening, massive gaps amongst the plants in the rows, massive weed growth, odd shaped spuds, hollow heart to name a few!
But we may have broke even on growing/ selling costs. (On our own land)
No cipc only MH, stored above 8C
Sold 15.5t acre (planted area) not too bad a yield considering the seed had little tuber disorder after planting. It did cause lots of head aches with greening, massive gaps amongst the plants in the rows, massive weed growth, odd shaped spuds, hollow heart to name a few!
But we may have broke even on growing/ selling costs. (On our own land)
Cowcalf
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- Location
- North of Scotland
Tesco today selling whites, no variety £1 per kilo sheer robbery, imagine if most of their products are hiked in the same ratio
Courier
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- Location
- M62 - M1 - M18 triangle
No need to imagine - typically a factor of 5 - 10 times on veg unless it’s a KVI or dairy.
https://m.bayt.com/en/specialties/q/73437/what-is-a-kvi-known-valued-items-in-buying-retail/
Hindsight
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- Location
- Lincolnshire
Why is £1 kg which is £1000 tonne retail in the Tesco store wrong? Sheer Robbery!? Genuine question.
After the potato leaves the growers farm it will be washed, put into plastic bags, transported and handled at the packing station and the central distribution depot, then transported to the store handled again before purchaser walks out of store with a 2.5 kg bag of potatoes. I am always intrigued with how much goes into each stage and the cost versus sales price. I think you may find also that previous year a grower might on free buy have received £300 tonne, with maybe £180 on contract, this year price for whites is nearer £70 tonne - but the price point in Tesco and other stores same or very similar between the two years. So yes grower price has varied substantially but retail not so.
Hey ho.
Stoosh
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- Location
- sunny scotland
Maris Piper Seed for sale.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10156071433028467&id=504768466
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10156071433028467&id=504768466
- Location
- West Suffolk
How is everyone getting on? Many left?
ridger
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- Location
- Tyrone, Northern Ireland
200 ton, long time til new ones are ready though
- Location
- South Shropshire
Finished, loading the last few tomorrow.
- Location
- West Suffolk
You do well not to need the money coming in?!
We’ll be done in 3-4 wks, same time as usual. Last few go when we want to plant, so a bit busy for a few weeks, then quiet! Have been selling up to 70t a week, which is a lot for us.Managed to get up to £125 for piper and Agria.
I think frying stuff will be short in July.
riverside2
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- Location
- Shropshire
Talk of £200 plus in bags for next week on the Fens today..................early planting clearly behind and having an impact.
- Location
- West Suffolk
Really? I asked for a £5 more for piper next wk and merchant says he can get them for £100pt?
farmerphilly
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Little potato seems a problem with Sagitta. Was it your own saved seed?