Potato Prices.

Quality of fresh dug stocks will be deteriorating quick now.

Do you mean fry colours.

Due to one of our team developing cancer we have potatoes in the ground, I'm not worried yet, about the potatoes (my mate is recovering well too).

That wet year 2019 autumn/early winter? we picked more in Feb than any month, no one complained. We don't supply chip shops though.

Edit I remember now we had a right heap of potatoes early March 2020 & wondered who we were going to sell them to, then lock down came along we sold them in a couple of weeks.
 

chipchap

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Do you mean fry colours.

Due to one of our team developing cancer we have potatoes in the ground, I'm not worried yet, about the potatoes (my mate is recovering well too).

That wet year 2019 autumn/early winter? we picked more in Feb than any month, no one complained. We don't supply chip shops though.

Edit I remember now we had a right heap of potatoes early March 2020 & wondered who we were going to sell them to, then lock down came along we sold them in a couple of weeks.
Yes, I mean frying quality, but also storability.
 
Just saving my own seed, I usually do 50% once grown anyway, not that many potatoes locally, find the once grown produce fewer larger tubers. An added benefit is a better graded sample not so many oval shaped potatoes that went through the grader screen at the upright angle.

Will try to get them treated with liquid rhino.
 

Bigjon44

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It's a 900 ton store so needs a bit of cooling!then we have a small veg store too running all the time and still drying a bit of grain!
 

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