Torrid year hits potato self-sufficiency

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.

Cedric Porter
Business Reporter
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Torrid year hits potato self-sufficiency

The second half of November was much drier than the first half, but waterlogged soils mean there was still as much as 10 per cent of the national potato crop which has not been lifted and, for some growers,...

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