We plan to hold our fourth
and final washup of the season on Wednesday 30th of March.The Nene technical meeting
is on Tuesday the 8th of March at the Curlew Centre in Sutton
Bridge.I make my
annual pl More...
Our November wash up was
well attended by members and customers.British Potato
2021 at Harrogate last week was perhaps not as busy as some previous shows
which is not surprising given the Covid threat More...
Just to
remind you that the AGM will be at Whaplode Manor at 2pm on Wednesday the 3rd
of November and British
Potato 2021 is at Harrogate on Wednesday the 24th and Thursday the
25th of November. More...
Our thanks go to Messrs EF
Harrold and Proctor Brothers Long Sutton for allowing us some space for trial
plots. We recently held a well attended trials day. More...
The Nene variety trial day
and technical meeting is on the 29th of July. We hope you
find time to attend as it has been a long time since the membership has had an
opportunity to gather. More...
The trial
plots are beginning to emerge so hopefully we will have something for you to
look at on the 29th of July at out trials and technical meeting! More...
Planting is
more or less complete in this area conditions were getting incredibly dry but
12 to 20 mm yesterday has helped the situation. Both the
trial plots have been planted. There are a lot of int More...
We are in
need of two harvest samplers so if you know of any suitable candidates please
let us know. The job usually runs from last week of August till the middle of
November. Good rate of pay, van pr More...
We have variety
trial sites arranged at EF Harrold in Norfolk and Proctor Bros at Long Sutton.
We have selected quite an exciting array of new and newish varieties with PCN
resistance in mind. It is a More...
A
date, speakers and a topic have not yet been agreed for the Spring Technical
Meeting. Obviously, it is very much dependant on COVID-19 restrictions.Next
year’s trial sites have been agreed. As alw More...
The AGM took
place virtually by Team on the 4th of November. Mark Taylor
officially took over as chairman with Julian Perowne as vice chair. David
Hoyles was thanked for his hard work over the past ni More...
Simon has done 600 miles so far towards the Branston around the world in 80 days challenge. If
you feel like donating towards a very good cause then follow the link below: https://www.justgi More...
Due to the
current situation our variety trial has been rather different, but I am sure
that everyone who attended would agree that the samples looked very good. We would like to
thank Messrs. EF More...
Both variety trial plots
have been planted in good conditions. We don’t know at this stage if we will be
able to have our usual July trials meeting but will keep you posted. We will
obviously send o More...
Planting has got
underway in the earlier areas and progress is good. Locally I would expect to
see some planters going next week. Dry on top but, not surprisingly, still wet
underneath is the report. More...
The Spring
Technical Meeting will take place in March for our members where we will have presentations on seed
procurement, Restrain and topical
agronomic matters. More...
We are
finalising a variety list for the trials this year. If you have any specific
varieties you would like us to try then please let us know. More...
The recent
potato event at Harrogate went well. Our stand was well positioned and we had a
steady stream of visitors over the two days. Congratulations to EF Harrold Ltd this
year’s winners of the More...
The main feature of October has been the rain
which has affected every part of the country. In this locality we have had
between 110 and 120 millimetres for the month and lifting conditions are the
More...
We
held our first wash up of the season on the 11th of September. It
was well attended by members and customers. The Nene AGM is next month, along with BP2019 and our November wash up. More...
Our second hot
box is up and running and we will be giving piper a 48 hour test to try and
detect bruising. Our two samplers are now also on the road.
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We had a very
well attended variety trial day last week courtesy of Messrs. GH Hoyles at Long
Sutton. There were also samples on display from our replica site at EF
Harrold’s in Norfolk. The overa More...
Last week saw
the end of an era when Pat retired from Nene after 40 years. We gave
him a send off at Knights Hill Hotel, King’s Lynn after his final board
meeting.
Pat was a sage.
He knew e More...
We have one
sampler arranged for the storage survey this coming harvest but still need one more.
Roughly ten weeks work from September to November.
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Our next wash up is taking place on 27th
of March. The
Spring Technical Meeting was well attended. The principal topic was life after CIPC and
the alternatives available. More...
We will be having
the next wash up on Wednesday the 6th of February.
The 2019 variety
trials will be situated on an irrigated silt field and on irrigated sand. We are currently
formulating a list More...
This time last year we were reporting heavy rain,
sticking soil, oversize potatoes and 40% through harvest. What a different tale
this year! Extended drought conditions locally, dust everywhere, sec More...
Our
two harvest samplers start work for us on Monday the 10th of
September. Some
local crops have been burned down and a lot more should be done next
week. Our
next wash up will take place on Wednesda More...
We have just
held our summer trials meeting. We would like to thank Messrs. EF Harrold and
Proctor Bros Long Sutton for giving up some land for the trials.
The results will be
published later but More...
The variety
trial meeting for Nene members will take place on Wednesday the 1st of August.
We will decide on the venue
next week. The likelihood is that it will be at EF Harrold Ltd in Norfolk as
More...
We will be
holding the Summer Technical/ Trials meeting on Wednesday the 1st of
August. As usual we have two trial sites but we haven’t decided on the venue
yet. We have booked a
stand for BP 2019 More...
There is a planned visit to the races at Newmarket on June 30th for members.Bryonie has
started her seed spreadsheet so if you are looking for seed or have a surplus
please let her know.
More...
As usual we will
be looking for two potato samplers for the storage survey next season. If you
know of anybody who might be interested please let us know.
The work will
run from early August to th More...
The
Nene Spring Technical Meeting will take place on Tuesday the 6th of March.
There
is very much a Branston feel to the meeting with Ed Maule the senior agronomist
and Chief Executive James Trusco More...
The
Directors and Members of Nene Potatoes Ltd announce that after 15 years as
Managing Director, Paul Shepherd has decided he wishes to leave Nene Potatoes
in order to pursue his interests outside More...
We have a few events coming up at Nene:Our
third Nene wash up will be on Thursday 1st of February.The Nene Spring
Technical Meeting will take place on Tuesday the 6th of
March where we will hear from More...
November has been a busy month at Nene. We held our
annual wash up and customer lunch on the 15th of November and had a stand
at BP2017. The event was well attended and we had a very
busy two days. More...
We have a busy month ahead in November with our AGM, Benchmarking meeting, Wash up and BP2017. If you are at BP2017 pop over to our stand to say hello!
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September was unusually wet and lifting conditions
have been hampered in most areas at some time during the month. At the end of September we estimate that as a group
we are about 40% through liftin More...
We have had our
first washup this week and have several events in the pipeline in November; the AGM, second wash up and our attendance at BP2017.Simon is taking part in the Branston Century cycle ri More...
Simon's training is well
underway for the Branston century cycle ride on September the 16th.
Branston are raising money for Kids Strut
which is a charity that exists to provide respite care in the More...
We staged our
summer variety trial / technical meeting last week at Messrs Jack Buck Farms.
The event was
very well attended not only with Nene members but with representatives from the
seed trade More...
We recorded 69
mm rain at the office this week. A similar amount seems to have fallen across
most of the eastern region and irrigating teams are having a well earned rest.
The land seems to have sto More...
Planting is
nearing completion with just the bigger growers still bashing away. The very
dry conditions mean that the heavier soils are now needing a lot of work.
Recent frosts
have caused some da More...
Planting is
underway locally but not yet in “full swing” as many soils are still too wet
but a good forecast will see activity increase this week. If you have any
surplus seed or have a seed req More...
The Nene wash up
was this week where Nectar and Lanorma were the “stand out” varieties.
Our Spring
Technical Meeting is taking place in two weeks. Speakers are John Keer and
Arthur Marshall fro More...
The
spring technical meeting is planned for
February. John Keer has been booked and the topics for
discussion are PCN, varieties and soil nutrition. We are also hoping to have a
representative from More...
Harvest is all
but wrapped up. The improved weather this week has meant good progress has been
made and we now have just five members still lifting.
We have our AGM,
benchmarking and November wash More...
Bryonie and Simon
have been active during the month of September for different charities. Simoncompleted the
Branston Century 100 mile cycle ride raising over £1600 for Lincolnshire
Integrated Volun More...
Bryonie
and I have been active during the month for different charities. I completed
the Branston Century 100 mile cycle ride raising over £1600 for Lincolnshire
Integrated Voluntary Service ( LIVES More...
It is with great pleasure to announce that Jim Russell will
join Nene Potatoes on Monday 5th September on a part time basis. Jim will strengthen our non-member trading
activities from his grow More...
It has been good
weather in August for harvest and holidaymakers but not necessarily for
potatoes which until last weekend’s deluge have been short of water.
More...
We recently held
our variety trial meeting at Messrs EF Harrold in Norfolk. We would like to
thank them along with Messrs OA Taylor Ltd. for giving up some land this year
for our trials.
We have g More...
We have
recruited one harvest potato sampler but still need another. If you know
anybody looking for work between mid-August and mid-November please let me
know.
In June Pat,
Paul and Bryonie atten More...
Planting was completed last week in the group. Warmer
conditions and longer days have meant that growth rates have improved
considerably but a drop of rain wouldn’t
do any harm!
Our two trial plo More...
Planting locally
seems to have gone as well or better than a lot of other areas where some
growers have yet to plant a potato. With cold wet weather and early morning
frosts the crop in the ground h More...
Last week saw our fourth and final wash up of the season. Planting
is now getting underway locally on the better silts while most soils still
need time to dry.We are still
looking for people for More...
March was our final session, held at the
AHDB offices in Stoneleigh. The day started with a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses,
opportunities and threats) analysis of the GB potato industry where we were
sp More...
We will be recruiting two people
for the summer sampling jobs so if you know of anybody who might be available
please get in touch on 01406 366238.We recently held the spring
Technical meeting at Wint More...
The Nene Spring
Technical Meeting will take place next month
in the QC room at Winters Lane. This year we will be hearing from John Keer and John Purslow.
More...
In JANUARY focus was keeping potatoes on
the political agenda in London. In the morning we had a tour of the Houses of
Parliament where we got to actually go into the House of Commons and House of
Lor More...
The run up to
Christmas was very busy as customers built up stocks. Piper, once again,
was the most popular variety.
We will be running our variety trials next
year as usual. We will have a silt la More...
In December the focus was on seed
in Scotland. We started at SASA (Science
and Advice for Scottish Agriculture).
The first
person we heard from was Sandra Goodfellow. She spoke about the divisions o More...
We have just
held our second wash up of the year which was combined with a customer lunch.
As always it was well attended. Our next wash up is in January.
Our AGM on the 5th
of November was also we More...
In November we attended BP2015
where there was a reception for the group with the AHDB Potatoes board on the
AHDB stand. Board members were interested to talk to us about our thoughts on
the programm More...
Harvest is getting
close to being wrapped up in this area and next week will see just 5 members
lifting.
Final preparations are underway for our
stand at British Potato 2015 which is at the Harroga More...
Lifting conditions are currently very good and
everyone in the group is in full swing. With two
samplers on the road every day this season we hope we are giving everybody
better coverage durin More...
In September the focus was on
storage and fresh. We started at Sutton
Bridge Crop Storage Research where the challenges facing storage, such as
efficiency, sprout suppression and variety management More...
We plan to go
ahead with a trial programme again next year and are looking for a suitable
silt land location. It is felt that the trials prove a useful indicator to
varieties that we can take on to co More...
With 113,682
total traded tonnes 2014 was definitely Nene’s biggest year to date. The
members potatoes amounted to 101,000 tonnes which we finished selling on the 17th
of July.
Our 2015 sea More...
The main event
in July was the rain that finally arrived to give some very parched crops in
this area a much needed drink.
With 65mm
recorded at the office in the week from the 25th of July it will More...
July’s focus was on potato handling and
engineering technology. We started the day at Tong in Spilsby.We were given a tour of the site and heard presentations from Edward
Tong. He spoke about the More...
We have had a fairly lively demand throughout June.
I haven’t put a fork in many new crops yet but
reports say there is a very mixed bag out there. Early areas seem to be on time
but most local cro More...
June our focus was on processing. We
visited McCain in the morning who
gave us information about their place in the market as the largest UK purchaser
of potatoes, the 104% increase in the volume of More...
We have found
two people to help us with the storage survey this year. Charlotte Rodwell will
be starting in August and Oliver Brown will be joining us for September and
October.
More...
I am part of
a group of fifteen young people on the first AHDB Potatoes Next Generation
programme. There are nine days on the
course aiming to give us exposure to the whole supply chain and a More...
Despite all the doom and gloom on the television recently about
declining potato demand our sales remain strong.
Planting is now
complete in this area and recent rain (30 mm in the last week) would More...
The trade during March has been quite lively.
Recently
announced Potato Council stock figures suggested 2.3m tonnes in store at the
end of January. This figure is up year on year based on higher pro More...
February has a reputation for being the slowest month of the year so I
am relatively pleased with sales.
There is a lot
of speculation about the UK potato area for the 2015 crop. There is no doubt
t More...
Potatoes appear
to have sold well over Christmas mainly on the back of some very strong
promotions.
TESCO have been
selling 2.5kg of whites for 49 pence to compete with ALDI who have been
offering p More...
November has been another busy month.
Christmas will soon be upon
us the peak loading week will be the week commencing the 15th of
December but customers are already starting to build stocks.
We h More...
Nene looks to be
heading for the earliest completed harvest since I have been here and
undoubtedly the biggest crop. The search has been on over the past couple of
weeks for boxes and storage so that More...
Our September movement takes our cumulative total for the season way ahead of the same time last year.
There is little
doubt that we have a big crop this year so it is good that we have got off to
More...
The last loads of the 2013 crop have been sold bringing the curtain down on a long and very
difficult season.
The 2014 crop
season has got off to a very busy start, we now need a good
quality crop More...
The Board and Executive of Nene Potatoes Ltd were delighted
to have Peter Kendall, President of the National Farmers Union (NFU),
officially open its new Quality Assurance facility today. Chai More...
The Board and Executive of Nene Potatoes Ltd were delighted
to have Peter Kendall, President of the National Farmers Union (NFU),
officially open its new Quality Assurance facility today. Chai More...