Sunny weather traditionally increases demand for sweet corn. That is also the case now, but there is one problem: hardly any sweet corn is available this week. “Morocco finished earlier, and Spain is later than in other years. That results in holes in the market,” Giel Hermans explains.
“When it is this sunny, everyone starts thinking about summer and if there is even one cob too few, prices immediately skyrocket. I expect the market to stabilise again next week when Spanish supply gets going. We still have to keep a little calm now, but at the end of next week Spanish supply will enter in abundance and we will be able to meet demand again.”
Cultivation technically Hermans Suikermais is also facing the necessary challenges in the Netherlands. “We had ten days of downpour in a row here. In this region it has been pouring buckets. We have not been able to sow for a week because of this. But I am glad there are no damages yet, and that there was no hail. It is great growing weather. The corn is practically jumping from the ground, so Dutch product will probably enter the market earlier,” Hermans concludes.
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