AHDB Potatoes
| Formation | 1933/1955 as the Potato Marketing Board 1997 as the British Potato Council |
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| Legal status | Division of a non-departmental public body |
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Region served | Great Britain |
| Membership | 2,900 potato farmers and 400 potato distributors |
Director | Margaret Mogridge |
Main organ | The Board of the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (Chairman: John Godfrey – CBE) |
Parent organisation | Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board |
| Budget | £6 million (from the levy) |
| Website | potatoes |
AHDB Potatoes, previously known as the Potato Council, is a trade organisation focusing on the promotion of the potato industry in Great Britain. Previously an independent non-departmental public body, it has been a division of the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board since 1 April 2008.
AHDB Potatoes' grower levy is £42.62 per hectare, and the purchaser levy is £0.1858 per tonne. Its main base is at Stoneleigh Park in Warwickshire, and there is a Scottish office in Newbridge in Midlothian and an experimental station (SBEU) in Sutton Bridge in Lincolnshire.
Its publication is the Potato Weekly, which mainly lists current prices of potatoes per tonne. It visits agricultural shows.