Reduced supply may boost price of potatoes

THE potato main crop acreage is “well back on last year”, according to Teagasc advisers.

Reduced supply could boost prices for growers, who are already benefiting from reasonable yields of Home Guard crops being lifted in Wexford and Cork. Prices for these are coming back, according to last week’s Teagasc crops bulletin, but the continuing supply of refrigerated Rooster poatoes is not thought to causing any major market problems for growers.

Advisers say British Queen crops look well, but some have herbicide or frost damage.