GB Potatoes

Founded by growers to provide an impactful voice for the sector. Follow us to keep up to date with what’s going on in the world of GB Potatoes 🥔 🇬🇧

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🗣️Last chance to have your say today…

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📢🥔Growers...

If you're growing potatoes, we'd really appreciate you taking a few minutes to complete our short Planting Survey, and for your chance to win 3 x £100 M&S Vouchers👇🏼

📋https://t.co/PXfJzVg7aL

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🥔 Only buy enough potatoes to last you for two weeks
🥔 Don't store them in the fridge

👩‍🌾 This is the advice of one farmer with 38 years' experience growing, storing and cooking potatoes - read on for more tips thanks to Simply Recipes.
https://t.co/StqkCALBSQ

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Enthusiastic about potatoes, Sarah Rankin is a former MasterChef finalist, food writer, broadcaster and private chef, and at Potatoes In Practice she prepared a range of delicious dishes using different potato varieties, for visitors to try.🥔👩‍🍳 Read on👇
https://t.co/mW5xSGqq7L

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👩🏼‍🌾 🥔Passing the reins of a business from one generation to another is rarely easy, but for father and daughter, Tony and Sophie Bambridge, the process is well underway and, so far, the plan is working well...

📖 Read more about their story here:
https://t.co/QwJG8wtfgh

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@gb_potatoes  Development Manager Graham Bannister urges grower unity and policy overhaul after heatwave impacts on crops. Read why at https://t.co/cQYvmM0zcI

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#WaterWednesday 💧

We’re sharing the final video from our Summit event, where we heard from Sophie Bambridge, GB Potatoes Director and Chair of CUPGRA and her key takeaway messages...

🌱 Drive consumption
💷 Drive profitability
💧 Invest in water availability

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#WaterWednesday 💦 🗣️🎥 Emily Norton, Chairman of @TheAHDB shares the asks of the potato industry and her takeaway messages from the Summit event that took place this summer 🥔🌱

Water accessibilty remains a hot topic!

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🗣️🎥 We caught up with Sophie Bambridge, Chair of @cupgra, at the @JamesHuttonLtd Potatoes in Practice event. She shared some of the benefits of becoming a member of GB Potatoes and why you should join today: https://t.co/VwJNTnwynA

#GBPotatoes #MembershipBenefits

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From water security and crop protection to research, innovation and export markets, we’re tackling challenges facing growers and protecting our sector’s future🥔

Read the article in the @FarmersWeekly to find out why you should join GB Potatoes today👇

https://t.co/5zmZRqDZ0Q

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💧Let’s talk water this Wednesday!

🗣️We hear from James Lee, Head of Agronomy at @ProduceSolution, who joined us at the Summit event this summer.

🎥 👀 Find out how vital investing in reliable water access is for the future sustainability of potato growing🥔

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With National Potato Day taking place earlier this week, Farmers Guide asked potatoes growers and GB Potatoes to summarise the season.

Read more from the growers here: https://t.co/hRGDTHUQHt

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Not often you get the Prime Minister talking ‘potatoes’ 🤯😲🥔

@andyburnham is right, this what farmers are up against this summer, with the driest July on record.

🎥 Watch his video now: https://t.co/KtWsjH9VJk

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🎥 📢 Alex Godfrey, Chairman of GB Potatoes, explains why your help with the 2026 Planting Survey really matters🫵❗️

📋 Fill out the survey today and enter your chance to win 1 of 3 x £100 @marksandspencer vouchers👇

https://t.co/PXfJzVgF0j

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📢Applications are now open for the 2027 Potato Industry Development Programme🥔

Find out more, and to apply via the link👇
🔗https://t.co/wMwr6kTGrV

#YoungProfessionals #FutureLeaders #SkillsDevelopment #GBPotatoes

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If we’re serious about food security, we need to be serious about water security💧🥔

Norfolk potato grower James Harrison explains why water scarcity and investment in infrastructure are putting UK food production under pressure.

Read it here: https://t.co/H0quwmfIHx

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At the recent Potato Industry Growth Summit, one message came through loud and clear...

To grow more British potatoes, reduce reliance on imports and strengthen food security, secure access to water is essential.

Read more from the Summit here: https://t.co/WCSQtW9Txo

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📢🥔Growers...

If you're growing potatoes, we'd really appreciate you taking a few minutes to complete our short Planting Survey, and for your chance to win 3 x £100 M&S Vouchers👇🏼

📋https://t.co/PXfJzVg7aL

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🤔 What do an agronomist, farmer, technical manager, researcher and the CEO of GB Potatoes all agree on? 👇

Long, robust potato rotations are building a more productive, resilient and sustainable British potato industry.

https://t.co/sAzPXSrA0Z

@Branston @McCainUKIE @Tesco

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Brief, brilliant and unmistakably British...

🥔📍🧑‍🌾Across Suffolk, Wales and the Pembrokeshire coast, fresh new potatoes are being lifted from field to shelf in under 24 hours. Read on to hear from the growers: https://t.co/3uG0rhrRV3

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🥔📊 The results from the GB Potatoes confidence survey are out now...

🗣Scott Walker, CEO of GB Potatoes said: “These results reflect what we are hearing from growers on the ground..."

Read the survey results via our news section here⬇️
🗞️https://t.co/TXwzCASmr9