AFTER beef, the cash strapped farmers have been hit by another crisis - this time it's spuds.

And it'll shortly hit the housewife where it hurts most, in the purse.

Prices are already well up, but Potato Council experts fear they could be sky high in time for Christmas. Well then they will be won't they?

The rotten weather is stopping the men of the soil harvesting their crops because it's too wet to lift them.

The fat will fly when chippies put up their prices again never to be reduced, even when there is a glut of the Maris Piper.

Watch out for the seige mentality striking as the mainstay of the Leyth diet is wiped from the supermarket shelves.

Dear spuds we don't like.