potato price

[chipchap]

Sometimes we finish planting before the end of April.
This year I don't think we will have started.

 

[ridger]

Any planting done yet? I got rained off yesterday but it's not really dry enough anyway

 

[Iben]

Should get going again tomorrow or Friday once other jobs out of the way. I believe there are quite a few planters going this week on light land.

 

[Colin]

Should get going at weekend

 

[Sonoftheheir]

Any planting done yet? I got rained off yesterday but it's not really dry enough anyway

Yeah, done about 36 rows today!

 

[Farmergrum]

Great day for it!

 

[RushesToo]

Great day for it!

@Farmergrum OK so whilst we are suffering in quagmire hell you are posting images of where you go to when you die, heavenly in all aspects. Soil, weather and vista. Good thing there is no "dislike" or "envy" categories to click on.

 

[Iben]

Quagmire hell? Are you not officially in the driest part of the country?

 

[Fubar]

Anybody want to hazard a guess as to what price we will be on next winter. My buyer is talking the job down already.... Too much carry, takes 2 seasons to recover from a bad one, new crop will catch up despite late planting etc.

 

[ridger]

Change buyer

 

[Trying]

Anybody want to hazard a guess as to what price we will be on next winter. My buyer is talking the job down already.... Too much carry, takes 2 seasons to recover from a bad one, new crop will catch up despite late planting etc.

If the new crop will catch up why don’t we plant later ever year and save a month of spraying.

 

[Fubar]

If the new crop will catch up why don’t we plant later ever year and save a month of spraying.

If a late planted crop means higher prices why don't we plant late every year?

 

[rm1]

why don't we try and keep supply and demand in balance then we can plant at the right time

 

[Iben]

It is only speculation that prices will be higher this year, certainly no guarantees at all. Don't see it being as good as expected. Indeed, could be worse. If the early season crop is a month late, it will push into normal maincrop timing, which means maincrop will have a one month shorter marketing season, so higher supplies each month?

If early season is late, buyers already know that and will be securing extra supplies from abroad right now.

 

[Fubar]

If a late planted crop means higher prices why don't we plant late every year?

Here's another radical idea.
If a reduced planted area leads to less spuds and thus higher prices , why don' we all cut back by 10%. Maybe some kind of marketing board for potatoescould be set up to regulate how much was planted each year. Every farmer would only be able to grow a certain area. Trying to think of a name for it..... quota
Do you think it would work?

 

[Iben]

I like your thinking, but sadly potatoes weren't the guaranteed success you would expect when quotas did exist.

Although I am a bit confused as to why potato growers getting together and agreeing on a maximum area they should plant is illegal. Deemed as trade distorting and a cartel.

Whereas oil companies can get together. Car manufacturers will reduce production to manage supply. Tractor manufacturers will do the same, fert companies? In fact just about any manufacturing company will do it, quite legally.

 

[Honest john]

In high yield seasons we could dye 10% of the crop & feed it to AD.

We would need a potato marking board to facilitate that.

Now that’s a good idea.

 

[Sonoftheheir]

Been offered a contract in bags for chipping £160pt starting Nov,rising £10pm from then on.

What u reckon?

 

[Trying]

Been offered a contract in bags for chipping £160pt starting Nov,rising £10pm from then on.

What u reckon?

If it was starting at 250 then 10 a week. You ought to have some of that. But I think that they could start of at 300 for November. We are in a worse position this year compared to 2 years ago and that’s where I was in December. I’m 5 weeks late planting so yields will be down. Coupled with reduced acreage planted. I hope we are on a win win this year. I’ve got a wife to keep pleased [emoji3]

 

[WRXppp]

So £200 for March then, many many years ago I ran similar idea past a potato merchant and he said that IT would work for both of us BUT his fish shops though loyal and in a high price year would lap up paying less would in the following low price year would be on the phone beating him up cos their mate with a fish shop is paying less! The chip shop, along with a bit of country pub trade, is the last bastion of free trade in potatoes, after this last season it must be very tempting.