Belgium
Fiwap/PCA market message:
Industrial varieties:
General price, 35 mm+, min 60% 50 mm+, min 360 gr/5kg EPS, bulk, friable, selling price, excluding VAT, direct delivery:
Fontane & Challenger: unavailable, due to lack of sufficient transactions.
Bintje : 1,00 €/a, mainly for export and fresh fries.
European physical markets
Summary of rates (source: NEPG):
Price in auctions/auction of Roeselare (source: REO via PCA): June 18:
Weighted price (red and white) for handpicked production: €0.30/kg (€ 30.00/a) excluding VAT. Supply: 21 tons.
Future market
EEX in Leipzig (€/a) Bintje, Agria and various related for conversion, 40 mm+, min 60 % 50 mm +:
The Netherlands
The market trend remains downward, with little interest from industrial buyers for the old free harvest, and falling prices. Volumes remain clear to flakes and livestock. In the field, since the weather has "normalized" (end of the stormy period), rains are again welcome in many places. Some plots bloom without closing the lines, others have a very developed foliage, others still are little advanced (spread plantations).
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France
The demand for factories being almost non-existent, prices remained under pressure last week. Prices posted by the main manufacturer were, however, unchanged at € 1.50 / q in Bintje and € 6.0 / q in other varieties. Conservation issues lead to premature pickups and contractual delivery delays. Apart from any replacement of contracted volumes, the industrial activity is almost nil. On the fresh markets, the season ends: there is still a demand for the domestic market in firm-fleshed varieties, while the export is closing. There are still unsold volumes, especially in Nord / Pas-de-Calais. In the field, quite a few emergence problems are reported, and a marked heterogeneity of rains in recent weeks (flooded plots in Eure (Normandy), relative drought in other sub-regions).
Germany
Growth conditions in the south and center of the country are good, while drought is more pronounced in the north (especially eastern Lower Saxony).
On the fresh market, the price for early firm pulp crops in Rhineland was 16,00 €/a on June 15. In potatoes for the industry (fries), prices are down to 4,50 €/a. In organic potatoes, end of trading for the old ones. The first early organic crops were around 85,00 €/a two weeks ago.
Indiginous early crops: early crops at 53,31 €/a (43,16 €/a on the same date last year).
*you will have to deduct €1,00/a from these prices in their starting fields in the table above for sorting fees!
In the Rhineland, the first defoliations took place in order to have early skinned potatoes ready for the end of June / beginning of July. In the Palatinate, there are “skinned potatoes" in supermarkets already. it’s is dry in Lower Saxony, but potatoes - for the fresh market - have benefited from the days of heat and light. The tuberisations seem high.
Great Britain
Average producer price (all markets) week 23: unavailable.
The old crop is not sought after much, at prices between 5.20 and 6.30 €/a in Fontane, from 8.00 to 8.60 €/a in Agria or Markies for the industry. In the fresh markets, the early imported vegetables (Israel, Cyprus) take the place. The early Spanish crops should arrive very soon. The offer of local (British) early crops is growing as well.
Poland
10% reduction in area (source: Lerigz via VTA Nederland): The area of potatoes is down 10% to +/- 300,000 ha in 2018. Poland is back to its 2015 level, after having risen to 329,000 ha. The plantations took place at normal times, but the drought affects most of the crops.
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