No more cheap potatoes?

111222

Used to get 2.5kg for £1 this has gone in two supermarkets, cheapest 2.5kg is £2.50, is this a seasonal thing or changed for good?

suki1964

Have you not noticed how many fields are water logged this year?

There's a shortage of spuds

Even here in ireland there's more imported then local in the supermarkets

geordie_joe

suki1964 wrote: »

Have you not noticed how many fields are water logged this year?

That doesn't effect most spuds, as they come from other countries.

suki1964 wrote: »

There's a shortage of spuds

Only English ones, our supermarkets are still full of spuds from all round the world. Just as they are every day of the year.

suki1964 wrote: »

Even here in ireland there's more imported then local in the supermarkets

That because all yours are shipped over to the UK.

http://www.tesco.com/groceries/Product/Details/?id=258423611

avantra

Aldi do 2.5 kg of bog standard white spuds for £1.5 or so, Tesco don't have anything less than £2 for that amount.

111222

avantra wrote: »

Aldi do 2.5 kg of bog standard white spuds for £1.5 or so, Tesco don't have anything less than £2 for that amount.

What i used to get, Sainsbury's Potatoes, Basics 2.5kg £1.19/unit, now nothing like that price, maybe second poster is right.

rhcp

There are smart price ones in tesco's for 99p for 2.5kg. The one's I got the other day were a bit small, but generally they're ok. Other than that, the local asian shop has 2kg for 99p.

franklally

The fields around me have been waterlogged for some time now and the farmers have been unable to get the potatoes out of the ground - I always buy local potatoes and have done for years - but the last Maris pipers I had really were quite poor (large rotten parts that needed to be cut off), I'm now using nadine that are very interestingly shaped but thankfully not rotten (but certainly would not be acceptable for a supermarket to sell).

The price has gone up from £4 for a full sack (25kg) last october to £8 a sack now.

Still good value at 32p/kg IMO and supporting the local farmers around me.

lindseykim13

lidl do i sack of 7.5kg for £3 somthing i saw yesterday

A._Badger

The comments about a poor harvest are quite right.

The interesting question is, if conditions return to normal next year, will the price go back down again?

pullenuk

A._Badger wrote: »

The comments about a poor harvest are quite right.

The interesting question is, if conditions return to normal next year, will the price go back down again?

It would go down. But not to where before if they can get away with it.

suki1964

The poor harvest in Ireland and the uk has meant we are more reliant on imports - and they aren't cheap

Locally a sack has gone from 3quid to 8 quid, and they aren't very good, really watery and rotten in the middles

Supermarkets here in NI, who have to stock local meat and produce, are now selling Scottish spuds to meet demand

If, as predicted, the weather here gets wetter, then potatoes will not be getting cheaper