Potato producers are facing tricky times, with ballooning costs squeezing profits and seasonal staff increasingly difficult to source since the UK left the EU.
To make itself more resilient to these issues – which are not expected to go away any time soon – Cornish producer EW Button & Son recently invested in a state-of-the-art potato-grading line with an optical sorter.
This has not only optimised labour use, but has also improved yield and made harvest, storage and delivery of the maincrop and salad potatoes much more efficient, which, in turn, has increased profits.
