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Post-Brexit labor laws and climate change-driven adverse weather conditions have significantly impacted the UK's new potato growers. The industry faces labor shortages, waterlogged fields, and delayed plantings, leading to the decline of ...

Reinstating Scottish seed potatoes into the EU market remains a priority amidst supply challenges and phytosanitary concerns. Amidst the ongoing ramifications of Brexit, UK seed potato producers have encountered barriers in exporting ...

Gordon MP Richard Thomson has continued his campaign to restore access to the export markets in the EU and Northern Ireland for Scottish seed potatoes.  In a press release, Thomson’s office points ...

Three Scottish National Party (SNP) MPs have written to the UK Government and the EU Vice-President urging both sides to remove Brexit-induced barriers regarding the export of Scottish seed potatoes to the European Union. Richard Thomson MP (Gordon), Alyn Smith MP ...

The area of seed potato crops for certification in Ireland increased to 299 hectares in 2021, helping to fill a gap left by a Brexit ban on imports from non-EU countries. This ...

Scotland has provided Ireland with the most significant proportion of the imported seed potatoes required

Tomorrow marks the return of Potatoes in Practice (PiP), the UK’s largest annual field event for the industry. The Scotsman reports that the event offers growers the opportunity to catch up on the latest in ...

Teagasc and the Secretary of Agriculture, Food and Maritime Affairs, Charlie McConalogue, have both stated that Brexit is negatively affecting the quantities of seed potatoes that Irish growers can import from the ...

Possible extensions to Irish Sea border "grace periods" will be discussed on Wednesday by the EU-UK body overseeing the Northern Ireland Brexit deal

Arable farmers and other growers are also directly affected by problems with sales opportunities to Great Britain

Ireland’s seed potato sector looks set to get a Brexit shot in the arm.

As the dust settles on the Brexit trade deal, the seed potato sector is coming to terms with its mixed fortunes. The news that ware potatoes have been awarded third country listed ...

There are significant opportunities to increase the production and supply of Irish grown seed potatoes post-Brexit, to replace UK imports

The announcement that a trade deal between the UK and the EU had been agreed just days before the end of the transition period was hailed as a great relief to Scotland’s ...

Scottish farmers and crofters breathed a sigh of relief after a post-Brexit trade deal was agreed just days before the end of the transition period. Farmers’ union NFU Scotland (NFUS), which has long warned ...

Seed potatoes growers say they are being treated like pawns in a political game with £13.5m of exports in doubt after the end of the Brexit transition period. Growers have been working ...

Northern Ireland’s potato industry (potato Imports) is hoping against hope that a derogation allowing the importation of both ware and seed from Great Britain into the region, beyond December 31, can be ...

Corona is forcing the potato trading houses to think about a different set-up of the traditional variety shows this year. A number of companies opt for an event online, others have decided to ...

The UK potato industry has been left in no doubt about the frustrations, fears and risk attached to trading high value Scottish seed potatoes as the clock ticks down to a possible ...

Scottish potato farmers have said that uncertainty surrounding their ability to sell to Northern Ireland post-Brexit is causing millions of pounds in losses, prompting Scotland’s environment minister to accuse the government of treating the ...

Britain’s seed potato sector is in turmoil, with just 10 weeks before exports to Europe and Northern Ireland (NI) face a total ban under a no-deal Brexit. As an EU member state, ...

The UK’s Brexit vote to leave the European Union has dominated the headlines since the end of June, but what will the effect on the potato industry be?  By Cedric Porter of World ...

A detailed analysis by SRUC explores Scotland’s pivotal role in the UK potato sector, focusing on seed potato production and its economic implications amidst shifting consumer preferences and Brexit-related challenges.