A looming potato shortage in Northern Ireland could see the cost of the family staple “skyrocket”, says UFU potato committee chair David McElrea.
Northern Ireland imports ‘several lorry loads of potatoes a day’ from GB where extreme heat is reported to have wilted the main crop according to the farmer.
While growers here don’t appear to have been as badly hit by recent weather, Mr McElrea says he knows of at least one whose crop won’t make the size.
