Potato Price Tracker

[Sonoftheheir]

id never have the scale to succeed against established growers 500-1000 acre growers are common now and these guys must be making something at it the amount theyve spent the last

Most are in south lincolnshire. This is how dry it is harvesting daffodils, probably the worst I have ever seen ,if you look very carefully you can see two bulbs !View attachment 1048128

Never seen anything like it!

 

[Trying]

Anyone heard what accord is per tonne now? I was hearing £200 this week...

7.50 a bag in my local fish and chip shop

 

[legin]

7.50 a bag in my local fish and chip shop

Same here. £4.25 to farmer. The merchant has a nice cut without too much risk.

 

[Enry]

Can anyone help me get my head around the potato job - The prices I hear vs the rents I hear of and the kit I see with diesel and fert where it is....how on earth does it work? I remember prices when I was a student in the 80's that we rarely hear of today - hearing of stockfeed going out now at a few £ a ton with massive electric costs to have stored them for 8 months. Is anyone actually making any money or just winging it? Hearing of a few locally slashing acreage this season but what they have was agreed on contract months ago..... Def one of lifes mysteries!

 

[Secret Agronomist]

id never have the scale to succeed against established growers 500-1000 acre growers are common now and these guys must be making something at it the amount theyve spent the last few years

Margins per acre go down so acreage must go up to pay for everything. We don't rent land so have a slight advantage in that we don't have to pay out the cash (but there is always the option to rent out). So in cash terms we are better off. We also run relatively old kit but again you just replace a non cash cost with more maintenance in theory. Need to be technically efficient and on your game to maximise margins.

 

[ridger]

id never have the scale to succeed against established growers 500-1000 acre growers are common now and these guys must be making something at it the amount theyve spent the last few years

Better start with 10 acre and sell them right

 

[chipchap]

Accord £150-160 today in Shropshire.

Disasterous.

 

[The Fenster]

Are we thinking low yields this year due to hot dry weather and dry planting conditions ? Even big growers with irrigation must be struggling to keep things moist in this heat?

 

[Iben]

Last summer was hot and dry as I recall it. Still a massive carry over of spuds.

 

[yellow belly]

Too many people eat rice and pasta all
imported
Cannot be bothered to peal and cook potatoes

 

[Fubar]

Another 2 weeks of this heat and it might be a different story. They will be under some sort of stress from the heat. And the longer they are checked the more at risk they are to splitting/ secondary growth. And given that the rainfall amount usually averages out somewhere throughout the year we might yet have some fun getting them out. It's unfortunate that it always needs a growing/ harvesting disaster to get a decent price.

 

[Bigjon44]

Last summer was hot and dry as I recall it. Still a massive carry over of spuds.

Where were you?bloody rained all summer last year.only used irrigator once

 

[Northern territory]

Yorkshire wolds starting to struggle someone in the know was telling me.

 

[Trying my best]

Yorkshire wolds starting to struggle someone in the know was telling me.

That could be affecting next year's seed yield?
Only a matter of time before prices firm up once the early stuff is all gone.

 

[Sonoftheheir]

The heat hits demand too.

 

[ridger]

The heat hits demand too.

Yes, pack run is less than half this week.

 

[Bigjon44]

Handpicked marfona today. Lovely sample but no money and no demand !!

 

[Sonoftheheir]

Irrigation restrictions here now, 6pm-6am if drawing from ditches/rivers.

 

[Secret Agronomist]

Where were you?bloody rained all summer last year.only used irrigator once

90mm in May but then irrigating mid June then a bit more rain and back on again mid July, our cereal crops died in the 1 week of 27-30C that we had last of July 2021.

 

[Sonoftheheir]

Where were you?bloody rained all summer last year.only used irrigator once

We stopped irrigating last wk in July 2021, had blight in every field after that wkend.