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 that we are going to see a reduction in acreage but how big a reduction we don’t yet know.
For our Spring Technical Meeting next week Sara Maslowski, head of Market Intelligence at the Potato Council, will update us on the UK market place. Then Andrew Nottage will provoke discussion and answer questions on a range of subjects.
If anybody knows of a suitable person or persons we are keen to recruit for the Summer sampling job.