However, the dams also cost a potato farmer about £2,000 in lost crop because they raised the water on fields.

For most of his life he was a potato farmer.

The ad features a cartoon potato farmer dancing and singing with his live potatoes on the plantation.

He was active in parliament, promoting the interests of potato farmers in the constituency and opposing government agricultural policy.

Modern potato farmers often mount a haulm topper on the front of the tractor and have a trailed potato harvester towed behind the tractor.