Exhibitors list
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BRITISH Potato 99 aims to bring together all aspects of this increasingly complex industry at one venue to help growers keep right up to date with all the latest developments.
Organised by the British Potato Council and sponsored by Lloyds TSB, it gives technical R&D a high profile.
As well as a compact area of working machinery, there will be demonstration plots and seminars to explain the latest research findings and market needs, plus a trade show of around 200 exhibitors.
Exhibition marquee
Topics for the seminars in the exhibition marquee are:
• How can you keep your seed buyers happy? The BPC seed sector survey has identified what the gripes are – come and hear what seed growers should be doing to keep buyers sweet.
• Organics – a genuine growing market, or could the bubble burst? Ten points to consider before taking the plunge.
• Its a costly investment. Heres how to make the figures stack up for potatoes, using the top 10% of producers as an example. Farm accountant Deloitte and Touche does the number crunching.
• Does your own crop match up? Comparing performance against the BPCs reference crops could help you identify improvements.
• Exports. UK producers have made progress in the ever-present battle to attract buyers from overseas. How can we ensure exports remain both high volume and high value?
• Building a new image. Hear how potato promotion with consumers will keep rice and pasta in their place, and help your business grow. *
British Potato 99 Seminar Programme
Wed, Sept 8
10.30 Seed sector survey Joanne Kemp, BPC.
11.30 Organic potato production Pete Saunders, NIAB.
12.30 Financial benchmarking Vincent Hedley Lewis,
Deloitte and Touche.
13.30 Reference crops Dr David Firman,
Cambridge University Farm.
14.30 Export promotion Diana Rees and Alasdair MacLennan, BPC.
15.30 Marketing campaigns Kathryn Trivett and
Victoria Branch, BPC.
Thur, Sept 9
10.30 Seed sector survey Joanne Kemp, BPC.
11.30 Organic potato production Pete Saunders, NIAB.
12.30 Financial benchmarking Giles Penn,
Deloitte and Touche.
13.30 Reference crops Dr David Firman,
Cambridge University Farm.
14.30 Marketing campaigns Kathryn Trivett and
Victoria Branch, BPC.
With the theory explained, there is then the chance to see it put into practice on a range of demonstration and trial plots.
Key features include:
V Greenvale AP
Demonstration of single and combination methods of haulm desiccation including mechanical, chemical and burning alternatives.
W Cambridge University Farm/British Potato Council
One of five sites within Great Britain where reference crops are being grown. Four varieties – Estima, Cara, Lady Rosetta and Russet Burbank – are being grown and closely monitored to provide benchmark information on the development, performance and quality of these varieties at locations throughout the UK.
X ADAS/British Potato Council
Demonstration of a range of different fertiliser practices. Organic manures, their nitrogen value to the growing crop. Amounts and forms of potash. Time and method of application.
Y National Inst of Agricultural Botany/British Potato Council
Demonstration of established and newer general ware/pre-pack varieties comparing tuber shape, size, yield and skin finish. Demonstration showing the effect of three seed rates on tuber size distribution of four newer varieties. High, low and optimum spacings are compared. Rhizoctonia demonstration illustrating varietal differences in yield, black scurf and tuber cracking in infected and healthy stock.
Z SAC/British Potato Council
A comparison of approved fungicide seed treatments to assess their effect on emergence, vigour, yield and disease development in the progeny crop.
British Potato 99
When: Wed, Sept 8 and Thur, Sept 9.
Opening times: 9am-5.30pm
Admission: £10 per person, max £20 per vehicle, Or £5 per person in advance from Pamela Hedges, BPC (01865-714455; fax 01865-782283; www.potato.org.uk)
By road: Entrance is south of A17 Newark-Sleaford road, just east of junction with A1/A46 at Newark-on-Trent. Signposting from all local routes.
By rail: Nearest stations are Newark Castle and Newark Northgate – 15 minutes taxi ride
By plane: Birmingham International – one hour drive; East Midlands – 45 minutes drive.
Exhibitors list
Main marquee
1 GFT Agricultural Products
2 Superfog
3 Offshoot/Trident Potato Quilts
4 J & * Bunn
5 R S Hall Engineering
6 Parker Weighing Systems
7 Lammers & Van Cleeff UK
8 Bradley Refrigeration
9 Peter Cox (Marketing)
10 Aquaflex
11 Burdens Distribution
12 Skye Instruments
13 QV Foods
14 FJ Pirie & Co
15 Muddy Boots Software
16 Octagon Products
17 Fen-Pal
18 Cornerstone Systems
19 Aardappelwereld
20 Glen Farrow Irrigation
21 Branston Potatoes
22 Caithness Potatoes
23 Owens Corning Building Products (UK)
24 Potato-Call
25 Agrolon
26 Potato Review
27 Scottish Executive Rural Affairs Department
28 Scottish Crop Research Institute
29 Central Science Laboratory
30 British Crop Protection Council
36 British Potato Council
37 Gordon & Innes
38 Rhône-Poulenc Agriculture
39 Higgins Group
40 McCain Foods (GB)
41 Phosyn
42 Field Irrigation
43 Korsnas Paper Sacks
44 Greenvale AP
45 Clifton Rubber
46 East Riding Sacks
47 Farming On-Line
48 Domino UK
49 Weir Systems
50 Sutton Bridge/ Hoche International Produce
51 Grimme UK
52 Bayer
53 Cargill
54 Russell Burgess
55 MBM/Beeson Group
59 Martin Lishman
60 Potash Development Assoc
61 Saltire Seed
62 Lockwood Graders (UK)
63 Isothane
64 Urethane & Coating Systems
65 Beckside Buildings & Installations
66 PBI Agrochemicals
67 Michael Williams Engineering
68 Foamspray
69 Richard Jackson Partnership
70 ADAS
71 Harper Adams University College
72 NIAB
73 Scottish Agricultural College
74 O/K International (Europe)
75 Pear Technology Services
76 Luxan UK
77 Novartis Crop Protection
78 Interjute
79 Zeneca Crop Protection
80 Broadacre Farms
81 Banks Agriculture
82 Specialist Potatoes
83 VMB
84 Revaho UK
85 Profarma
86 Farm Works
87 S G Baker
88 Welvent
89 G Forbes & Son
90 Harvest Installations
91 Dalgety Group
92 Farm Energy Centre
93 NNZ/AWP
94 Claypack
95 Improcrop UK
96 Ramsay Soil Injection
97 Farm Electronics
98 Whyte Agrochemicals
99 Tong Engineering
100 Agriquip
101 Agritronix
102 Assidoman Sacks (UK)
Outdoor exhibits
115 Peal Engineering
116 Easterby Trailers
117 Benest Sprayers
118 EW Downs and Son
119 Scotts Potato Machinery
125 David Harrison
126 Radiophone
127 RST Irrigation
128 Haith Tickhill Group
129 Newtec Odense (UK)
130 JF Charlton & Co
131 Richard Western
132 DT Dijkstra
135 Fenmarc Produce
136 Hydro Agri (UK)
137 Agri-Weld
138 Agrihold Farm Machinery UK
139 PMR Storage Systems & Installations
140 County Fertilisers
141 Pellcroft Engineering
142 Triffit Trailers
150 Richard Pearson
151 Abertay Paper Sacks
152 Flame Weeders
153 Harper Adams University College
154 Sands Agricultural Machinery
155 Briggs Irrigation
156 Broadwater Machinery
157 Grampian Tractors
158 Omex Agriculture
162 Horstine Farmery
165 R J Bateman Engineering
166 Verti-Pack
167 Berthoud Sprayers
168 Soil Association
169 Lloyds TSB
170 Miedema Mercer Machinery
171 Netagco Sales (UK)
172 Thomas Equipment Divn
173 Finning Materials Handling
175 John White & Son (Weighing Machines)
180 Standen Engineering
181 Steve Thorley Farm Services
183 Wright Rain
184 Bauer
185 Oakleys Irrigation
186 Kverneland (UK)
187 A E Goodacre & Son
188 Dowdeswell Engineering
189 Marston Agricultural Services
190 Crops/ farmers weekly
191 Hortichem
192 Javelin Water Engineering
200 R J Herbert Engineering
201 W J Morray Engineering
202 Pacepacker
Demonstration plots
A Agrico UK
B Seed Potato Promotions (Northern Ireland)
C Gordon & Innes
D Van Rijn
E Agrolon
F Pseedco
H Caithness Potatoes
J MBM/Beeson Group
M Hortichem
V Greenvale AP
W Cambridge University Farm
X ADAS
Y NIAB
Z SAC
Working machinery demonstrations
M1 Netagco
Reekie
Hydro Pneumatic Bedformer Auto Release, RT170 Bedtiller
5154S Stone and Clod Separator,
Netagco Rumpstad 3.8m full width bed cultivator
M2 Standen Engineering Eureka! by Standen stone burier
M3 Kverneland
3800 Auto Release Bedformer
GS 200 Bedtiller
3800 Shear Bolt Bedformer
4210 Destoner
M4 Richard Pearson
Jumbo Bedformer
Rotaforma
Megastar Plus soil separator