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The changing face of potato contracts...
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<blockquote data-quote="kiwi pom" data-source="post: 4553888" data-attributes="member: 946"><p>Depends where you are and the relationship you have with the buyer though.</p><p>I'd say in the UK the buyer has more power over you because they could find a way to get out of a contract and still get spuds to keep their factories going because there's always people willing to take a chance and grow thousands of tons of non contract spuds in the hope someone will buy them.</p><p>There will always be a place in the UK for smaller growers selling bags to chip shops etc but I take the view that its the large "gamblers" growing non contract spuds that are screwing the market for those that want a good relationship with their buyer.</p><p>Of course the other problem in the UK is it would be relatively easy to fetch spuds across from Europe too again reducing the growers power.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kiwi pom, post: 4553888, member: 946"] Depends where you are and the relationship you have with the buyer though. I'd say in the UK the buyer has more power over you because they could find a way to get out of a contract and still get spuds to keep their factories going because there's always people willing to take a chance and grow thousands of tons of non contract spuds in the hope someone will buy them. There will always be a place in the UK for smaller growers selling bags to chip shops etc but I take the view that its the large "gamblers" growing non contract spuds that are screwing the market for those that want a good relationship with their buyer. Of course the other problem in the UK is it would be relatively easy to fetch spuds across from Europe too again reducing the growers power. [/QUOTE]
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