Job Opportunity

24 Sep 2024

Job Opportunity An opportunity has arisen for a dedicated, skilled operator to work on the potato operations, with some support as required with general groundwork and harvesting of other vegetables. A background in working with similar high-tech modern machinery is essential. If you think a role on a dedicated organic farm is for you please submit CV and covering letter to vicky@taylororganicfarms.co.uk. Closing date for applications 31st October 2024.

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Potato Variety Trials 2024

16 Jul 2024

We will be hosting an Agrico variety trial again this year – focusing on some of their blight resistant varieties. We also have a field scale trial looking at Levante as a Charlotte salad replacement. We are in our second year of trialing Alouette, which is an early maincrop red skin variety with late blight resistance in foliage and tuber. We are also in our second year of trialing Peter Pan, another blight resistant variety, which has been supplied by Maincrop Potatoes. Karelia, supplied by Greenvale AP, is also in its second year of field scale production with us. This variety has good resistance to both species of potato cyst nematode (PCN); Globodera pallida and G. rostochiensis. Over 50% of the varieties that we are now...

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Nick awarded Grower/Manager of the year 2022-23

27 Mar 2024

Nick has been commended for his commitment to improvement, experimentation and collaboration with researchers, agronomists and other growers to find sustainable and resilient solutions in the sector. Farming 395 acres of potatoes in Shropshire, his collaborations have included two Innovative Farmers field labs – one on trap cropping to reduce potato cyst nematode and another exploring alternative control of wireworm. An organic farmer, integrated pest management and selecting blight-resistant varieties are core to his business.

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TC & N Taylor Tesco Gold Standard Achievement.

30 Aug 2023

The team at TC & N Taylor are proud to announce that they have maintained their Tesco GOLD standard. This is an exceptional result. Tesco lifted their stringent requirements a few years ago, which makes achieving this GOLD standard even more special.

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TC & N Taylor Field Scale Potato Variety Trials 2023

21 Jun 2023

This year our in-house potato trials will focus on a number of dual pcn resistant varieties. Performer, Lugano, and Karelia are being produced on a field scale basis. All three are growing really well at the moment, hopefully they will help enhance yields in a sustainable and positive way. We will also be trialling a number of blight resistant varieties, including Peter Pan, Camillo, Elata, and Cameo. Red potato varieties are also back in vogue, due to customer demand. Agostino and Alouette both fall into this category. Both of which are blight resistant.

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Potato harvesting 2022 – filling boxes

21 Jun 2023

https://www.taylororganicfarms.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/filling-boxes-tcntaylor.mp4

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Improved washing and grading facilities 2023

19 Jun 2023

Starting with the 2023 harvest we will be able to wash and optically sort carrots, parsnips, potatoes and swedes. ‘Dirty’ optical sorting of potatoes can also be carried out. This will enable us to deliver a graded, but unwashed crop, direct to pack-house. It will also help extended the shelf life of our potatoes and greatly reduce our carbon footprint.

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Current Vacancies

11 May 2022

We are always looking for talented and motivated employees. Please feel free to send us a copy of your full CV, outlining your qualifications and skills. We will then be happy to contact you and clarify whether there are possible jobs for you at TC & N Taylor. CV and covering letter to: vicky@taylororganicfarms.co.uk  

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TC & N Taylor Trials 2022

12 Apr 2022

  We are proud to announce that we will be hosting a wide range of potato and carrot trials during the 2022 growing season. Agrico UK will be showcasing a selection of their up-and-coming blight resistant potato varieties. This is the second year that they have asked us to be host. Despite covid restrictions, the 2021 site was well attended by a range of growers and businesses. Produce Solutions, on behalf of Greenvale AP, will be holding their usual organic potato variety trial. This has become an annual event and has helped us tremendously with our own varietal choice. We will also be carrying trial work with NEMguard PCN and NEMguard DE – both from Certis UK. NEMguard PCN will be on trial looking at its efficacy on potato cyst...

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TC & N Taylor Organic Variety Trials 2021

20 May 2021

This year we are hosting two large scale organic potato variety trials in conjunction with Agrico UK and Produce Solutions. The variety trials consist of Lady Balfour as a standard variety and comparing it against a number of ‘up and coming’ new varieties. In adition Mercian Ltd have also entered a number of crisping varieties to see how they perform in an organic setting. Mercian Ltd Agrico UK Produce Solutions

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Next Generation Potato Varieties – the fight against blight.

12 May 2021

Fighting blight: what does it take to bring a resistant variety to market? Bringing new potato varieties to the marketplace is very much a combined effort with seed breeders working closely with growers to develop desirable agronomic traits, and the wider supply chain for those crucial characteristics such dry matter distribution, sugar formation and storability, for example. In parallel, the work of researchers across the globe informs the breeders about the moving target that is blight and puts potential new varieties through their paces in the field. The James Hutton Institute is one such research body and currently has projects covering everything from pathogen diversity, evolution and phenotyping to host resistance and IPM. The...

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TSFG Potatoes Headland Spring Mix

12 May 2021

TSFG Potatoes Headland Spring Mix. Expertly selected by Oakbank Game and Conservation Ltd and is suitable for cultivation in all parts of the UK. Sown after the potatoes have been planted, it will quickly offer protection to the soil and develop a flowering habitat for beneficial insects. The mix contains: Buckwheat; Phacelia; Common Vetch; Crimson Clover; Berseem Clover and Daikon Radish. Sowing rate is 16kg/Ha. Offering the following benefits: Improve soil structure on highly trafficked areas Feed soil biology Reduce the potential for soil erosion Provide essential pollen and nectar for pollinator species and beneficial insects Buffer adjacent water courses

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TC & N Taylor Organic Potato Variety Trial 2020.

3 May 2020

This year we are hosting a large scale organic potato variety trial in conjunction with the trials team at Produce Solutions. The variety trial consists of Lady Balfour as a standard variety and comparing it against a number of ‘up and coming’ new varieties. We have also included a Lady Balfour Seed Density and a Seed Size trial, with the aim of ascertaing the optimum seed rate for this variety to achieve the optimum yield and size distribution. www.producesolutions.co.uk

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Carrot Harvesting Video Spring 2020

14 Apr 2020

https://www.taylororganicfarms.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/TC-N-Taylor-Carrot-Harvest-28s.mp4

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Partnerships and the fight against blight.

16 Aug 2019

TC & N. Taylor, Greenvale AP, and Produce Solutions, have been working together for nearly 20 years collaborating to understand and develop the organic potato market. Andy Clarkson, Greenvale’s current Managing Director, and Nick Taylor began the journey together in 2001. Here in 2019 they can be seen inspecting a fully blight resistant salad crop, in excellent health. Despite the huge blight pressure of this season, this field demonstrates that with research and 20 years of experience the impossible can be achieved. 26th of July 2019.

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Red Tractor Farm Assurance

6390

The Farm Business Food and Farming Industry Awards Winner 2010
Parliamentary Review - Best Practice Representative
Assured Produce Growing Partner

6390

Organic Soil Association Certified

G9159