8th December is a long time away for 6 cottages, the rest of the farm has power, it would seem a simple fix? One premature baby, one vulnerable elderly person. Northern Powergrid @annietrev

#Potato 2022 crop risk. The effect of last years cold spring will have bigger effects on crop size this year than last. How? If seed is younger the number of stems (& therefore tubers) is reduced. Our model shows reductions of 10-40% depending on variety. Contact us for info.

Up to 1,000t of illegal potato seed was imported into the UK. Growers who plant the seed could face prosecution for breaching biosecurity rules 🥔 #clubhectare fwi.co.uk/arable/potatoe…

On Friday evening Hannah Bradshaw attended the Annual McCain Grower awards evening. A big congratulations to one of our Vales Growers; Rookery Farm (Walcott) who won the overall champion grower award for the 2nd time in 4 years. 🥳🥳

Jelly looking fantastic, hopefully through worst of the heat for a while

Had a small gathering in Staffordshire last night to hear about BASF Agricultural Solutions UK potato products in the pipeline, and also to discuss current #potato challenges (there's a few!) and opportunities (there's a few of those also).

Soraya - liking the look of this, other than it’s had 6 inches, virtually the only site we are not struggling for water.

#thisismemorialdevice @phigster a great performance tonight. One for you @markagorman!

Nice crop of Venezia seed for Greenvale Seed

We are hosting an open meeting in Shropshire for all to attend who are interested in learning more about DeCyst trap crops for PCN control in #potatoes and the output so far from the Innovate UK funded project we are involved with. eventbrite.co.uk/e/decyst-trial…

The team spent a great morning talking to Harper Adams University final year students about DeCyst trap crops for PCN control and our Innovate UK project #potato Crop Health & Protection - CHAP Matthew Back 🇺🇦 worldoftravelling

Afternoon spent talking with David Gregory-Kumar and BBC Midlands Today BBC Midlands about DeCyst trap crops for PCN control and our Innovate UK project. Who from the project team will make the final cut? Almost certainly not this chap! Crop Health & Protection - CHAP GreenvaleAP Matthew Back 🇺🇦 worldoftravelling

Ghost - even fkn worse that KISS were there that possible primaverasound

Looking for a summer student - retweets appreciated 🌾🌾

Splendid Soraya motoring on now, plenty of beasties too👍

191 #potato trial plots lifted last week between the showers; 33 plots graded and defect assessed. Not a bad effort from the Produce Solutions team. Great to see some positive yields in our #PotatoCystNematode (#PCN) tolerance and resistance screening trial!

Join the DeCyst project consortium, a Defra UK funded initiative in its second year of investigating the viability of STCs for Potato Cyst Nematode management 📍Bromeswell Woodbridge ➡️Book your place: ow.ly/u3o350PY7XO Produce Solutions Harper Adams University VCS (UK) Ltd

#Potato growers - if you’ve got w.wheat fields like this, or you don’t want to drill “Cuckoo barley” - why not consider taking the opportunity to reduce #PCN populations by growing a #DeCyst trap crop

have a spare full festival ticket for Primavera Sound - DMs open if you’re interested. E transfer,face value. 🙏 Re-Xs welcome.

Thanks to potato lee Produce Solutions for a morning training session with the whole team, covering all points of potato production 🥔 from seed to market Woodhall Growers Ltd #farmtraining