Potatoes

Potato growers who were unable to get on their fields made their way to the British Potato Show in Harrogate, Yorkshire, last week. The weather was a hot topic, but so was the long-term future of the sector.

With heavy rainfall creating challenging potato harvest conditions, lifting and cleaning crop still in the field with minimal damage is becoming increasingly difficult

HSE has asked the UK potato sector to demonstrate compliance with a tMRL to address contamination of untreated potatoes in stores where sprout suppressant CIPC was previously used.

The UK potato crop is expected be one of the smallest on record this year

Pre-Brexit, Scotland sold an estimated 22,000 tonnes of seed potatoes to European customers

Belgium’s potato industry is investing in more processing outside the country, partly to satisfy demand from the UK

The Canary Islands have imposed a ban on all UK seed and ware potato imports following the discovery of Colorado beetles in Kent and Hampshire over the summer.

Agri-tech research and development business B-hive is embarking on a new collaboration aiming to reduce the risk of potato bruising and reduce supermarket waste 

Growers in the EU are were reported to be desperate for Scottish seed